Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
If your team drafts a player, and yet never signs him, the chances are that they'll still own his draft rights. The presence of those draft rights means that that player can sign only with the right-holding NBA team, and not with any others. Such draft rights can…
Newest Phoenix Sun, Zabian Dowdell. A mere 48 hours after the Top 101 Ten Day Contract Candidates list was completed, the Phoenix Suns went and signed somebody that wasn't on it. Clearly, 20 would not have been enough. With the second signed ten day contract of the season…
As of today, January 5th, NBA teams are able to start signing players to 10 day contracts. Up until now, players signed mid-season had to be signed to contracts lasting at least until the end of the season; as of Wednesday, however, you need sign them for no…
The first two rounds of games in the 2010/11 Chinese Basketball Association were played this week, giving us an opportunity to confirm once and for all who is actually playing there. With no major English language version of a Chinese Basketball Association website available - other than perhaps…
Continuing the lengthy look at training camp invitees league wide, here's part three. Part one can be found here , and part two is here . Oklahoma City - View Thunder roster - View Thunder salary information With a full roster, Oklahoma City saw fit to bring in…
Continuing the lengthy look at training camp invitees league wide, here's part two. Part one can be found here . Indiana - View Pacers roster - View Pacers salary information Indiana already has 15 guaranteed contracts, so they didn't bring in many for camp. The only two players…
No matter how much you may think you know, NBA training camp always offers an opportunity to learn more. In that respect, it rivals summer league and draft night; all three present chances to learn more about players about whom you previously did not know about, and you…
There follows a compendium of all players who have signed, or agreed to sign, for 2010 training camp. I could not find such a compendium elsewhere and thus decided to make one. This list also includes earlier signings of players with unguaranteed or partially guaranteed deals. In some…
The transfer markets are pretty much closed. In many places, pre-season has already begun. EuroLeague qualifiers begin next week, as does the mighty British Basketball League regular season, and while signings continue to go down, most are done by now. By this time, if you're still a free…
It's weird that Ben Wallace is the only one of these four with a contract. This snappily titled post is, in essence, an update to the earlier similarly titled one that detailed the best remaining free agents in the world of basketball. The list was designed to be…
These things tend to tangent. Stick with it. Luke Babbitt I'm still not sure of why Portland has been trying to acquire small forwards so proactively. The Luol Deng rumour won't die, even if you want it to , and the team just signed Wesley Matthews to a…
Free agency is going on, and big names are moving all over the world. However, so are the little names. And since half of this website is devoted to the little names, there follows looks at the summer league roster for all NBA teams. These posts will be…
The South Korean basketball league [KBL] is a relatively new league, only thirteen years in existence, that unashamedly focuses on Korean national players. Part of that means heavily restricting the amount of imports that so heavily permeate all the other leagues around the world. Teams are allowed only…
The Chinese Basketball Association is an area of particular focus on this website, because it's fun. Every season, the CBA plays host to many former NBA players, and plays them for the vast majority of their 48-minute games, resulting in huge statistics and thereby being more fun over…
Everyone remembers their first Mengke Bateer experience. Mine came in the 2000 Olympics. In a game against the USA in which Yao Ming beasted from three point range (true story), and in which Wang Zhizhi picked up four first half fouls, Mengke came in and hit some mid…
For no reason other than an itching craving to scratch my own Where Are They Now itch - I can't really start the 2009 series of posts until all leagues are underway, which will be about another six weeks - I have decided to revisit the whereabouts of…
At the start of the month, over the course of three posts united by the overused theme of Alec Baldwin's monologue from Glengarry Glen Ross, I attempted to analyse and predict the training camp rosters of every team in the NBA. For the hell of it, here's the…
Continuing the round-up of training camp invites. - Milwaukee played the training camp game in the spirit that it deserves.....briefly. They initially announced three signings; former Marquette point guard Domimic James , D-League big man Marcus Hubbard and former Temple guard Mark Tyndale , and they later…
Continuing the round-up of training camp invites. - Phoenix are going to run with 13 players, because they always run with 13 players. And they already had 13 players before training camp started, so the prospects of their signings were slim to none before they even started.…
Training camp. Love it. Ever since I grew up with a mild addiction to the Championship Manager series of computer games , I have nurtured a mild fascination for transactions in sports. I know it's not healthy, but I also know I'm not alone. It might be harsh…
Do you ever stop and think about that time that Mark Madsen shot seven three-pointers in an overtime game, when Minnesota and Memphis had the most blatant tank-off that history has ever seen? No, nor did I. That is, not until this morning, when I woke up thinking…
For those amongst you who, like me, have a strange fascination with transactions, both those finalized and those possible, this is a bad time of year for you. This is late August, the draft is long since gone, and most of the juicy bits of free agency have…