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Marvin Fong / The Plain DealerDanny Ferry Former Cleveland Cavaliers General Manger Danny Ferry reached an agreement to return to the San Antonio Spurs front office, reports Yahoo Sports. According to the story, the Spurs aggressively recruited Ferry to return to… What are your opinions. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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| Danny Ferry to join Spurs as assistant GM | |
The Spurs reached a deal to sign Danny Ferry as an assistant general manager, Yahoo! Sports reported. Ferry was the general manager in Cleveland since 2005 getting fired at the end of last season. Leave your comments on the news below. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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| Will Tracy McGrady Signing with Detroit Pistons Hurt the Chicago Bulls? | |
According to reports from the Associated Press and Yahoo! Sports, Tracy McGrady will sign a one year, $1.3 million contract with the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons have fallen from one of the Eastern Conference’s best teams to one struggling for playoff contention. Running low on time today, i’ll be back tomorrow hopefully with some more news. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
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| Carmelo Anthony not signing Nuggets extension | |
The Denver Nuggets wanted its three-time All Star, Carmelo Anthony (notes) , to sign on for another three years this summer, but HoopsWorld has it that the 26-year-old small forward won’t be signing on any dotted lines anytime soon. That’s all the news for today. |
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| Jefferson re-signing with Spurs | |
All signs point toward Richard Jefferson (notes) re-signing with the San Antonio Spurs today, according to San Antonio Express-News. Jefferson, of course, could have had $15.2 million in salary next year with the Spurs but he opted out in order to cash in on Historic Free Agent Year 2010. That dough never came for him and now he’s re-signing for a lot less, the paper reports Running low on time today, i’ll be back tomorrow hopefully with some more news. |
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| Raja Bell joining Jazz | |
Looks like Kobe Bryant (notes) and Raja Bell (notes) will get to keep battling with each other and not have to become best buddies. Thanks for visiting my blog =). |
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| Kobe lending hand to land Raja Bell | |
Kobe Bryant (notes) and Raja Bell (notes) have had their disagreements in the past but the five-time NBA champ Bryant is putting all that aside to meet with Bell today and try to convince him to come play for the Lakers for the $1.77 million left in its midlevel exception, according to the Los Angeles Times. As Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reported yesterday, the Lakers and San Antonio Spurs are the frontrunners to land the 33-year-old Bell, who only played six games last year for the Charlotte Bobcats and Golden State Warriors . The Spurs have a little more money that it can give Bell, and according to Wojnarowski, are still regretting cutting him at the end of training camp in 2001. Feel free to leave your comments below. |
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| Shaq joining Spurs? | |
Shaquille O’Neal (notes) is keeping people guessing. The 31-year-old 7-1 center has played for five teams and is looking for another one to play for If you like reading our blog, remember to bookmark it. |
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| Carmelo headed to trading block? | |
Carmelo Anthony (notes) has one more year left on his contract with the Denver Nuggets before he can opt out of it and become an unrestricted free agent. The Nuggets are feeling like he may do just that and the team "is prepared to trade Melo rather than let him walk" next summer, according to a source for the Denver Post. Leave your comments on the news below. |
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| Cavaliers hiring Brian Shaw to coach | |
Nothing like waiting till the last minute. The Cleveland Cavaliers have an extremely important player that becomes an unrestricted free agent at midnight Eastern tonight and the team wants to impress him not just with wads and wads of cash for him and his friends, but also with the direction of the team. Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski reports that LeBron James (notes) should be expecting to hear soon that Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw is the new head coach of the Cavaliers. Not much else going on in the NBA world today. |
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| Turkoglu eases trade demand, may stay in Toronto | |
Hedo Turkoglu (notes) has clarified his trade demand, indicating he would be amenable to staying with the Toronto Raptors if the system changes as he expects it to, according to a report on TSN . TSN reports that Turkolgu backed off his desire to be traded, doing so in an interview with a Turkish sports site, sporx.com . Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo told The Fan 590, a Toronto radio station, that if Chris Bosh (notes) leaves for free agency, which he expects him to do, it would lessen his desire to trade Turkoglu Leave your comments on the news below. |
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| Suns making one last effort to keep Stoudemire | |
The Phoenix Suns are giving it one last try with Amar’e Stoudemire (notes) . Team owner Robert Sarver and coach Alvin Gentry are meeting with Stoudemire on Tuesday in Los Angeles to try and convince him not to opt out of his current deal, take their contract-extension offer, and stay in Arizona, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. Stoudemire could make $17.6 million next season with the team, but he also could opt out and give free agency a try. Thanks for reading! . |
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| Byron Scott wants Cavaliers job | |
Byron Scott told Yahoo! Sports’ Marc J. Spears that he would like the head-coaching job with the Cleveland Cavaliers regardless of whether Phil Jackson retires and leaves an opening with his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers , or LeBron James (notes) decides to go elsewhere. "I’m not sitting and waiting on Phil Jackson," Scott told Spears. Leave your comments on the news below. |
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| Mavs hoping for sign-and-trade with Hawks’ Johnson? | |
As much as Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban would like the Cleveland Cavaliers to do a sign-and-trade with him for LeBron James (notes) , it doesn’t seem very likely. So Cuban is thinking of attempting to work that same sort of deal with the Atlanta Hawks for Joe Johnson (notes) , Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski reports. What are your opinions. |
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| Dirk Nowitzki headed to free agency | |
The Milwaukee Bucks may have been the team that selected Dirk Nowitzki (notes) with the ninth pick in the 1998 NBA draft, but he’s played his entire NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks . Is that about to change ? There is the quick update of the day. |
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| Spurs keeping Tony Parker | |
The San Antonio Spurs have the 20th pick in today’s draft, which is the highest team has had since 1997 when the team selected Tim Duncan (notes) before all others. According to the San Antonio Express-News, there’s been a lot of talk about three-time All-Star point guard Tony Parker (notes) getting traded in order for the team to move up higher in today’s draft. The Spurs interviewed Georgia Tech’s Derrick Favors last month, a man everyone figures will go much higher than the 20h pick What are your opinions. |
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| Splitter costing too much for Spurs? | |
The San Antonio Spurs have the rights to the current MVP of the Spanish league and the 2010 Spanish League Finals, 25-year-old center Tiago Splitter (notes) , who has recently made it clear that he would like to move on up to the NBA now. And he has no contractual issues in Europe to deal with. However, the Spanish lira is worth more than the dollar now and the Spurs will need to offer Splitter a sweet deal in order to get the 6-11 Brazilian to come to America, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Thanks for reading! . |
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