Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Rasual Butler Butler returned to the D-League last season in an attempt to springboard himself back into the NBA. He played well, averaging 17.8 points and 5.1 rebounds for the Tulsa 66ers. However, aged 34, the once-good athleticism has largely gone, save for flashes. Butler would like to…
Eric Boateng Boateng is an English centre who played one year at Duke, before transferring to Arizona State, where he just completed his senior season. He barely played at all in his first four seasons, but finally got a chance to play last year, and responded with averages…
I wasn't initially going to mention this, not until we got to Marko Tomas's entry at least. But, prompted by Jonathan Givony, I will relent and do it now. An amusing scandal has broken out in the world of Croatian basketball. A team called Cibona Zagreb are perhaps…
- Wink Adams : Adams just graduated from UNLV, where his senior season numbers were down across the board. He averaged 14.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists, shooting only 37% from the field. As a general rule, 6'0 guards that shoot 37% don't make it in the…
- Little Jeff Horner - who is kind of like John Stockton, only with better rebounding - averages 8.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.6 steals for Antibes. Antibes play in the French second division (Pro B), which undermines that Stockton comparison a bit. But still. Stockton…
"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…