NBA Off-Season / Summer 2010

[Big Mick]

And that Ridnour to the Wolves deal has been confirmed. WTF are they doing in Minny? They must be looking to trade Sessions, although Ridnour is just as bad, but older. Makes no sense.

Think they are going to ship Sessions and just trying to get someone above the age of 25 on the roster

 

[Tiger Hawk]

They're not going to get anything of real value for Sessions. He's a back-up, shoot-first point guard with no 3-point range. He'd be a nice piece on a playoff team (Magic), or maybe a team starved of offence (like the Bobcats) and I actually would like to see him on the Magic as Nelson's back-up. He's good on the P&R and would bring some offensive spark to the second unit, something they're lacking at. What they get back is the real question though, so it doesn't make much sense to me for the Bucks.

:lol: Billy King, former Sixers GM, just appointed as GM to the Nets :lol:

How'd this guy get another GM role in the NBA, FMD.....

 

[mortz]

espn insider says mcgrady is meeting in florida thursday (friday our time) and thats when mike miller will sign with the heat

 

[Special K]

I can't remember the last time an "espn insider" rumour actually came true?

edit - Billy King? Ouch! I still can't believe that contract he gave Willie Green.. WILLE FREAKIN GREEN!

 

[mortz]

most this off season have K
but they have been sh*t pervious years... last year they had a.i to toronot a sure thing

 

[Special K]

Any of their good stuff they put on the tv or on their website anyway.

Chad Ford is full of sh*t.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

The Sam Dalembert contract was King's favourite of mine.

Not that I can talk, had to put up with Billy Knight absolutely massacring consecutive drafts (05 & 06), where we could have ended up with Chris Paul in 05 (Marvin Williams) and any number of decent players in 06 (Shelden Williams). Of course, had we taken Paul we probably wouldn't have got Al Horford in 07 (was top 3 protected to the Suns) so there's a silver lining in there somewhere...

 

[Tiger Hawk]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5381152

Bell spurns Lakers for Jazz? Not confirmed, but great signing by the Jazz, terrific fit. Of course that probably means they won't match that mammoth Wes Matthews contract.

Edit: Only issue is the length of the deal. Bell will be 34 at the start of the year, had injury problems last year and was starting to slip 2 years ago at Charlotte. I'd hope the Jazz only partially guarantee that third year.

 

[Ridders]

Understandable. Bell would be giving up alot of money to join LA.

 

[Big Mick]

I like what i'm seeing from JJ Hickson for the Cav's.

Lighting it up.

Just needs to improve his defense and he'll be fantastic for them.

And Lucas for the Bulls...hits 6/6 from 3-point line...pressure much for having Korver and Reddick coming in.

Ogilvy not getting any minutes.

For the Clippers Aminu and Bledsoe are very impressive along with Davis and Griffen they should be very competitive this year imo.

 

[Special K]

Bell was forced into coming back early at the bobcats. I read an article about it and he wasn't happy about it. He will be a very nice fit in Utah.

D-Will/Bell/AK/Al Jeff/Okur/Milsap is a nice rotation for the play offs. Shouldn't have let Korver walk though

 

[Tiger Hawk]

After getting Jefferson I thought they might look to move Okur for another wing as they had Al, Millsap & AK with Fesenko and Koufos as well, but now it looks like Koufos was included in the Jefferson trade so wonder what the Jazz will do. Still think they need some help on the wings and Okur is the most able to be traded so will be interesting to see whether he's moved. Although I'm intrigued to see how he works with Al, would seem to be a fantastic offensive (but horrible defensive) match.

And just saw that McGrady is going in for a workout with the Clippers next week.

 

[mortz]

where was the part about mcgrady?

 

[Tiger Hawk]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2010/07/nba-clippers-neil-olshey-tracy-mcgrady.html

Not a bad fit for the Clippers - they're going to need somebody to spark that second unit, and for 15-20 minutes a night McGrady (if healthy) fits the bill.

 

[Big Mick]

I'm buying into the Clippers.

I like the moves they've made the last 2 years.

 

[mortz]

cheers mate

 

[Ridders]

Ouch

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors say top draft pick Ekpe Udoh will miss six months after undergoing surgery on his injured left wrist.

Udoh underwent the operation on Wednesday in San Francisco to repair a torn ligament in his wrist. He will have his wrist immobilized for about 10 weeks. Udoh injured the wrist at a supervised workout at the team's facility earlier this month. He was selected sixth overall out of Baylor in last month's draft.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5380912

 

[Nth-Qld-Raider]

They're not going to get anything of real value for Sessions. He's a back-up, shoot-first point guard with no 3-point range. He'd be a nice piece on a playoff team (Magic), or maybe a team starved of offence (like the Bobcats) and I actually would like to see him on the Magic as Nelson's back-up. He's good on the P&R and would bring some offensive spark to the second unit, something they're lacking at. What they get back is the real question though, so it doesn't make much sense to me for the Bucks.

:lol: Billy King, former Sixers GM, just appointed as GM to the Nets :lol:

How'd this guy get another GM role in the NBA, FMD.....

The Magic picked up Chris Duhon as Jameer's backup.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Yeah but Duhon should really be the third point guard, not the back-up. At least not on a team wanting to compete for the championship.

 

[Tiger Hawk]

Warriors have new owners......hopefully they can start to turn things around for them:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5383261