Basketball writing, scouting reports and salary cap analysis from the archive.
Rosters are mostly set after this summer’s free agency period, and teams are just mostly now nibbling around the edge. Aside from a couple of training-camp decisions, most players are now on the teams they will be with through at last January, as rarely do teams make mid-season…
Further to this , this and most recently this . In the last update, I explained how Tim Duncan had had his contract modified, but Zach Randolph had not. And yet what I could not explain was why Tim Duncan had had his contract modified, but Zach Randolph…
This post is essentially the conclusion to a post from nearly two years ago , dated July 22nd 2012. That post was itself a follow-up to this post , published three days prior. The two posts combined to document an issue, or was at the time a potential…
In April 2011, Zach Randolph received a four year, $66 million extension that will pay him through the 2015 season. Notwithstanding the very valid arguments that a man who doesn't have any athleticism in the first place is going to decline slower than most, and that Memphis have…
ESPN: Knicks suggest dealing Randolph to Memphis The Knicks have a trade proposal on the table with the Memphis Grizzlies that would see Darko Milicic and Marko Jaric dealt to New York in exchange for Zach Randolph. OK, I get it. I do. I really do. "Here, take…
Players acquired via free agency or trade: Zach Randolph (acquired from Portland) Dan Dickau (acquired from Portland) Fred Jones (acquired from Portland) Players acquired via draft: First round: Wilson Chandler (23rd overall) Second round: Demetris Nichols (53rd overall, rights acquired from Portland, not yet signed) Players…
Why aren't NBA players loyal to their teams, such as how the fans are, and such as how the fans think that they should be? Ask Fred Jones . Jonesy signed with Toronto for three years and $9.9 million in July 2006, as a part of the Raptors'…