Transactions

Golden State Warriors  7/27    Waived Jermareo Davidson 7/30    Traded Marco Belinelli to Toronto for Devean George and cash 9/2      Signed Mikki Moore 9/15    NBA fines Stephen Jackson $25,000 for making public statements detrimental to the NBA  On the surface, Belinelli for George is a "who cares" type of trade.  Their salaries are pretty close but Belinelli is young and potentially useful as a designated shooter, while George is the definition of filler.  It's not clear why … [Read more...] about Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part II

Boston Celtics 7/8    Signed Rasheed Wallace Rasheed comes to Boston with the express goal of giving them another shot at the title in 2009-10.  At this point, Boston is playing a risky game.  Bringing Wallace to Boston gives the Celts another key player approaching his mid-30s.  Wallace will be 35 the coming season and coming off of his worst season since 1997-98.  He's still pretty good but Wallace did decline slightly in nearly every category and his free throw rate, never a strength, … [Read more...] about Transactions: 6/30-7/9

Atlanta Hawks 6/25    Traded Acie Law and Speedy Claxton to Golden State for Jamal Crawford For the Hawks, this is a clear win trade.  Crawford is a gunner but can be useful, while Law never developed and Claxton appears to be done with his knee issues.  The question now is what role Crawford will fill with the Hawks.  He's not really a point guard but the Hawks didn't really have Mike Bibby dominate the ball anyway.  Still, Crawford is a volume shooter and not quite as good a ball handler … [Read more...] about Transactions 4/23-6/29

Boston Celtics   2/17    Traded Sam Cassell to Sacramento for a conditional 2015 second-round draft pick 2/19    Traded Patrick O'Bryant to Toronto for a conditional second-round pick in 2014 2/24    Signed Mikki Moore  For Boston, Sam-I-Am was always an insurance policy for Rajon Rondo.  Since that time Rondo has played quite well and they haven't needed to try to cash in the Cassell policy, save for one game against San Antonio last spring.  Even so, the Celts are still very thin … [Read more...] about Transactions: 1/19-2/24

Charlotte Bobcats  1/16      Traded Matt Carroll and Ryan Hollins to Dallas for DeSagana Diop  Taking this trade from a Larry Brown perspective, it makes some sense.  Brown loves defense and does not necessarily appreciate shooters who don't defend like Carroll.  But look a bit closer and this makes no objective sense.  Yes, Diop can block shots and defend but he can do nothing else (.379 FG%, 4.5 pts/36 minutes) and his boards and blocks aren't even that astounding.  In terms of actual … [Read more...] about Transactions 12/16-1/19