Bulls pretty good tonight vs magic

WGN

The Milwaukee Bucks waived guard Roko Ukic(notes) on Monday after he decided to forfeit the remaining money on his contract. Ukic was making $1.35 million this season with a player option for $1.45 million next season, a league source said. Ukic has appeared in only 13 games this season and hopes to join a team overseas. Ukic’s agent, Marc Cornstein, said his client will likely go play in Europe after he clears waivers.


The Golden State Warriors released forward-center Mikki Moore(notes) on Monday and have agreed to pay for the rest of his rehabilitation for a right heel injury that has him sidelined until at least April. An NBA source said the Warriors made the move so they could guarantee forward-center Chris Hunter’s(notes) contract for the rest of the season before Wednesday’s deadline. The Warriors were worried that if they cut Hunter in hopes of signing him to a 10-day contract later, he would be picked up off waivers by another team.

I'm surprised that Ukic is leaving the NBA altogether. If he wanted to get moved to a team to get more playing time, he has a good contract for that.

@WojYahooNBA: Rafer Alston has agreed to a buyout with Nets, Heat & Cavs lead list of possible suitors.

Drunk driving. Nice.

Jayson Williams Suffers Fractured Neck (http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/05/jayson-williams-fractured-neck-dwi-car-accident-bail-revoked/)

Why is he having a retrial for killing his driver?

Also, dude should just by a bike at this point.

I think they should just kill him before he kills someone else.

What you think is irrelevant.

First trade of 2010: Nets get Chris Quinn, cash and 2012 second-rounder from Miami in exchange for heavily protected 2010 second-round pick

Basically, the Heat give this up for Alston, as they will sign him with Quinn's roster spot.


Also...

Allen Iverson's contract with the team will be guaranteed for the remainder of the season; per Sixers.com.

Heavily protected second round pick? LMAO

Anybody have any idea WTF happened to Thad Young over the last 3 weeks?

And no, it's not AI's fault.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4290/gamelog;_ylt=Ain6avjLMMcqizN481BmuuSVPaB4

AI

I know you're just being a knob, but Young's better games have come with AI (first half of December) and many of his poorer games came while AI was out.

So maybe it's not enough AI, actually.

See post #12

Darko Milicic appears headed toward a buyout with Knicks (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2010/01/08/2010-01-08_darko_appears_headed_for_eclipse.html)


The Knicks and Darko Milicic could be headed toward a buyout. Milicic, who has already stated that he plans to continue his career in Europe next season, was conspicuously missing from Thursday night’s game against the Bobcats. The 7-footer has become such an afterthought that the Knicks did not even bother to reveal that he did not show up for work. Milicic’s agent, Marc Cornstein, confirmed that his client was missing due to “personal reasons” and said that Milicic would rejoin the team today. Knicks president Donnie Walsh would not rule out the possibility that Milicic may not finish the season in New York but quickly added, “He practices hard and kept himself in shape. — NY Daily News

If he gets a buy out from the Knicks and clears waivers we should sign him for the rest of the season.

His NBA career could come full circle and he'd have one last chance to show and prove in the league (this assumes we'd even bother to play him)

If he gets a buy out from the Knicks and clears waivers we should sign him for the rest of the season.

His NBA career could come full circle and he'd have one last chance to show and prove in the league (this assumes we'd even bother to play him)
I think I'm gonna hurl...

What you're describing is not so much "full circle" as "full circlejerk".

Oh, well - we don't want none of that going on.

Might get suspended by Stern for promoting porn or something

The third quarter of last night's Blazers/Cavs game was fun as hell to watch, that crowd is crazy. Went to bed after the Cavs opened it back up. Can't stand watching Varejao.

I have a mancrush on Brandon Roy, fwiw.

Former NBA star Jayson Williams pleads guilty to assault in fatal 2002 shooting of limo driver - AP

Najera Dealt To Dallas

Hornets trade Armstrong to Kings
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports

The New Orleans Hornets have traded center Hilton Armstrong(notes) and cash to the Sacramento Kings in a salary-clearing move, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The deal removes Hilton’s $2.8 million salary from the Hornets’ payroll, leaving them only a little more than $500,000 over the luxury-tax threshold. The Kings will send the Hornets a future, conditional second-round pick.

Probably means Okafor is staying put.

The Kings have a lot of bigs now, I wonder if they'll be dealing Hawes.

Redd done for year. They are in the #8 spot. Could we give them RIP for Ridinour and KT?

It would allow Stuckey to play SG more and get us 12.7 mil in cap space next year.

It might be enough to make Redd opt out next year (or at least buyout his deal), and try to sign where the big names go.

Would Hammond help out his old boss... again?

And GD - I think it's safe to say many have a mancrush on Brandon Roy.

I think he only does it if he thinks Redd will leave right away. They want out of that contract (RIP's is almost have the size though longer), and a solid lockerroom guy for the young guys.

Scalabrine a starter? Get used to it, people. It looks like Sheed will be out for a hot minute. http://tinyurl.com/yemnyfq

'Nique turned 50. Wow.

Redd done for year. They are in the #8 spot. Could we give them RIP for Ridinour and KT?

It would allow Stuckey to play SG more and get us 12.7 mil in cap space next year.

It might be enough to make Redd opt out next year (or at least buyout his deal), and try to sign where the big names go.
Redd may be done for his career. I bet whether they'd want Rip or not depends a lot on whether Redd can play next year.

Griffin out for the year.

Google now has a twitter scroll?

Man, maybe we don't want the #1 pick after all.

I wonder how much insurance John Wall has?

Griffin done for year. Doubt they move Camby or Kamen now:

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=4823032

Google now has a twitter scroll?

Man, maybe we don't want the #1 pick after all.
I wonder how much insurance John Wall has?

Man, maybe we don't want the #1 pick after all.
I wonder how much insurance John Wall has?

I don't get it

Griffin won't be back this year.

I don't get it

Many top NBA prospects take out insurance policies against getting hurt in college and losing their NBA millions.

Redd may be done for his career. I bet whether they'd want Rip or not depends a lot on whether Redd can play next year.

Anybody know when Blake Griffin is expected back?

OMG - trapped in a time loop and WTFChris and Vinny didn't notice.

Help them help me get out of this fucking thing.

Actually, that shit was pretty funny

OMFG Frickin cleavage at the Utah game. Behind the Utah bench...about the baseline extended.

Which former Piston said these words?


On the importance of home court advantage:

“Right. And as we seen last season during our run, the biggest thing that we had going was our building was incredible, home court was incredible for us. We didn’t lose a series until we didn’t have home court. We went up there and we stole home court back, but when we have our home court, you see how we play at home. Sometimes it’s disappointing that everybody doesn’t understand the importance of a Minnesota Timberwolves game, or a Sacramento Kings game or a Memphis Grizzlies game or a Clippers game, when they were struggling. They don’t know the importance of those games and they just feel like we can win them in the fourth quarter. That fourth quarter, the other team has confidence and now it’s a dogfight.

It would be funny if it was Cbill. So I'll say Cbill.

Hermy gets a gold star on his forehead. :) That was indeed Mr. Shot himself, Chauncey RoughRight.

David Stern vs. the U.S. Secretary of Education:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/sports/15ncaa.html?ref=sports

How About That? (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jan/18/grizzlies-preview-vs-phoenix-suns/)


The Grizzlies are the only NBA team with two players (Zach Randolph, Rudy Gay) averaging more than 20 points per game and the only team in the league with three players (O.J. Mayo) posting more than 18 points per game. — Memphis Commercial Appeal

They call him Mister Blair:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10017/1028852-175.stm

Corey Maggette has been hooping well as of late...

Corey Maggette has been hooping well as of late...
I'm sorry, did you post something? I was distracted by the lady in the red dress.

:stein:


Just filed to ESPN: Hornets are trading Devin Brown for Aaron Gray. Deal will be official later Monday

:stein:


Hornets still need one more trade to get under tax threshold. Tax benefit of swapping Devin Brown for Gray is only savings of roughly $100K


Hornets still roughly $425,000 over tax line. Getting under gets you nearly $5 million. All non-tax teams collect such a check in the summer

That last part is a big reason why I doubt Joe makes (or is allowed to make) ANY trade that takes on more money this year.

Karen needs that $5m to make up for the attendance shortfall from this year.

That last part is a big reason why I doubt Joe makes (or is allowed to make) ANY trade that takes on more money this year.

Karen needs that $5m to make up for the attendance shortfall from this year.


Pistons are at 58.6 mil in salary this year, luxtax is at 69.9 mil

My bad, I thought we were right up against the tax, but we're right up against the cap. I've been struggling lately, thanks for the correction.

Pistons are at 58.6 mil in salary this year, luxtax is at 69.9 mil

They've been wrong before, but HoopsHype has us at $61.2m without accounting for Jerebko or Summers

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/detroit.htm

Storytellers has us at $60.19m with JJ/Summers

http://www.storytellerscontracts.info/resources/09-10salaries.htm

I think you have to back out the portions of Chucky and Ben's deals that the league pays, because that doesn't count when it comes to the tax calculations, right?

Where did you see $58.6m?

http://www.shamsports.com/content/pages/data/salaries/pistons.jsp

Thanks.

That's like the third different salary figure that I've seen for Oberto.

right, i like Shams best, he is always up to date... i have no idea where he gets his information, but he's very accurate and has a good knowledge of CBA details...see contract details


Fabricio Oberto: Re-signed to a 3 year, $10.9 million contract in July 2007. Final year is only $1,900,000 guaranteed until July 1st 2009. Waived in June. Cap amount further reduced to the set off provision thing.

Ben Wallace: Signed a one year minimum salary contract in August 2009. Wallace is actually being paid $1,306,455, the minimum salary for a ten or more year veteran, but as his minimum salary contract is only for one year and he has more than three years of experience, the team is only billed an amount equal to the minimum salary of a two year vet. The league pays the rest.

Hornets trade Brown for draft pick

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

The New Orleans Hornets have lined up the last move they need to make to get under the NBA's luxury-tax threshold.

NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com that the Hornets have reached a verbal agreement on a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers that will send reserve guard Bobby Brown to the Clippers for a conditional future second-round draft pick.

A trade call with the league office to formally approve the deal is scheduled for Tuesday morning, sources said.

The Hornets were roughly $425,000 over the league's $69.9 million tax threshold after Monday's deal with Chicago that sent guard Devin Brown to the Bulls for big man Aaron Gray.

Moving Brown's $736,420 salary gets New Orleans comfortably under the tax line, which will put the Hornets in line to receive a rebate approaching $5 million that is paid out to all non-tax teams during the summer.

The Hornets have made a series of tax-motivated trades to shed salary since last season, starting with the deal that sent Rasual Butler to the Clippers for a second-round pick in 2016. Hilton Armstrong was also dealt to Sacramento earlier this month for a 2016 second-rounder.

The Clippers, meanwhile, have capitalized on the Hornets' luxury-tax issues to fill another need in their rotation. Brown could compete for backup minutes at both point guard and shooting guard. The Clippers lost Sebastian Telfair for four to six weeks with a groin injury and Eric Gordon is dealing with a foot injury.

The trade would be a homecoming for Brown, who starred at L.A.'s Westchester High School and played collegiately at nearby Cal State Fullerton.

So all those little moves and Joe did't get involved in any of them?

New Orleans were desperate to move players and we didn't do squat.

I'm not saying those guys make any difference overall but if we managed to help them "acquire" a $5 million NBA check one would assume that's worth a pick of some kind.

Yet everyone seems to be giving them picks? WTF?

We don't want the guys NO unloaded.

"Conditional future 2nd round pick" means they don't get the pick.

listen to Joe D & Keith...not really anything new...

http://postingup.2dogs.com/member/avview.php?b=6168&u=4&seq=0&v=2&t=b&q=

http://postingup.2dogs.com/member/avview.php?b=6172&u=-2&seq=0&v=2&t=b&q=

http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/dumars_100127.html

looks like Joe D wont make a move, cause he wants to see what this team can do when all guys are healthy...

They can't do shit when healthy. They would get pounded in the paint by the Cavs, Celtics, Magic and a host of WC teams too.

looks like Joe D wont make a move, cause he wants to see what draft pick he can get when all guys are healthy...

looks like Joe D wont make a move, cause he wants to see what this team can do when all guys are healthy...

Translation: We need a big, but no other team wants to take a gamble on any of our unhealthy wing players.

listen to Joe D & Keith...not really anything new...

http://postingup.2dogs.com/member/avview.php?b=6168&u=4&seq=0&v=2&t=b&q=

http://postingup.2dogs.com/member/avview.php?b=6172&u=-2&seq=0&v=2&t=b&q=

http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/dumars_100127.html

looks like Joe D wont make a move, cause he wants to see what this team can do when all guys are healthy...

I fucking knew it.

This better be a work to throw everyone off otherwise....

FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

To be fair, he says the same kinda shit every January.

We'll see what happens when it happens, if it happens.

In case you missed it, the Hawks have moved into the #2 slot in the East.

I haven't really been paying attention - what seed are the Pistons?

Andre Miller scored 52 points against Dallas.