Transactions

Charlotte Bobcats  12/10    Trade Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley and a 2010 second-round pick to Phoenix for Raja Bell, Boris Diaw and Sean Singletary 12/12    Sign Juwan Howard  Another fun Larry Brown trade!  If you give Brown control, he'll do some whacky things.  On paper, trading Richardson for Bell and Diaw makes little sense.  Richardson is the best player and the money isn't even necessarily better for Charlotte (Richardson has two years at $28 million after this year while Bell … [Read more...] about Transactions 12/5-12/16

Oklahoma City Thunder  11/22    Fire P.J. Carlesimo and name Scott Brooks interim head coach  Not much has happened in the NBA on the transaction front the last few weeks except for a good old fashioned coaching dump off.  In each of the three cases of coach firings, the terminations do not seem to be no-brainers.  All three teams have played poorly, compared to even modest expectations.  Yet there are clear mitigating factors in each instance.  Starting with P.J., we know the knock...the … [Read more...] about Transactions: 11/22-12/5 (Coaching Change Edition)

1.    Morrow Time!:    The interesting news of this weekend was undrafted rookie Anthony Morrow's 37-point outburst against the Clippers.  Morrow, a 6'5 shooting guard out of Georgia Tech, shot 15-20 from the field (4-5 from three) and even grabbed 11 rebounds.  There wasn't much in Morrow's college stats to indicate that he was a regular NBA player (14.3 ppg on 46% shooting as a senior) but Don Nelson does seem to have a knack for developing young offensive players against the mainstream.  … [Read more...] about Quick Thoughts

Boston Celtics  9/29    Re-sign Sam Cassell  It's pretty amazing how quickly a player can lose it.  Cassell was perfectly useful for the Clippers last year (12.8 ppg, .455 FG%, 4.7 apg in 25.7 mpg), only to offer pretty much zero for the Celts (7.6 ppg, .385 FG%, 2.1 apg in 17.6 mpg) and was even worse in the playoffs (4.5 ppg, .333 FG%, 1.2 apg, in 12.6 apg).  Now, the limited role on Boston obviously had a lot to do with Cassell's precipitous drop but at some point when you fall so hard, … [Read more...] about Transactions 9/11-11/12

Atlanta Hawks  7/29    Sign Maurice Evans 7/30    Sign Randolph Morris 8/8      Re-sign Josh Smith 8/11    Sign Thomas Gardner and Othello Hunter 8/13    Sign Flip Murray  At the end of the day, the Hawks avoided the worst case scenario--that Smith would take a one-year qualifying offer in order to set up a run at unrestricted free agency in 2009.  It seemed that Smith wanted to leave Atlanta pretty badly but not badly enough to risk injury or decline that could kill his market … [Read more...] about Transaction 7/17-9/11

Boston Celtics  7/16    Sign Patrick O'Bryant  O'Bryant was predictably a washout for Don Nelson's small man offense.  In fact, he barely played in Golden State in two years but did block a lot of shots.  His 2007-08 NBDL stats are also pretty good (16.8 ppg, 10 rpg, 3.5 bpg, 21.0 PER).  Given the fact that he's still very young and not without talent, O'Bryant is still worth taking a flier on. … [Read more...] about Transactions 7/9-7/17