Tag: Charles Gaines

Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis.

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Where Are They Now, 2010; Part 23

- Joel Freeland Despite coming from the unpleasant town of Aldershot, Joel Freeland has turned into a fine player. Still in Spain, Freeland has moved from Gran Canaria to Unicaja Malaga, lured by the promise of EuroLeague ball. Freeland is averaging 9.9 points and 5.0 rebounds in 19…

Michael Sweetney signs in China

As always, Chinese Basketball Association transactions are extremely hard to verify. There is no English language version of the CBA's website, and crude Google translations aren't really that helpful. Tryouts are often reported as signings, signings often aren't reported at all, and lots of things go unreported. From…

2009 NBA Summer League round-up: Houston Rockets

- Hassan Adams : Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo struck gold in 2007 when he signed Jamario Moon right at the start of free agency, after a fine performance in a Raptors mini-camp. In 2008, he went for it again with Hassan Adams...and he struck out. He signed Adams…

Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 18

- Richie Frahm has not been signed since his performance with the Dallas Mavericks summer league team. I watched all of those Mavericks VSL games, and Frahm - a shooter - often chose not to shoot, which seemed wrong on a team clearly auditioning shooters. Other things that…

Third Prize Is You’re Fired (2008 NBA Training Camp)

"Anybody wanna see second prize?" "Second prize is a set of steak knives." - Milwaukee signed Ron Howard , T.J. Cummings , Matt Freije and Kevin Kruger for camp. If you're wondering who Ron Howard and T.J. Cummings are...well, you have yourself a valid question, but both are…