The Knicks kept tinkering with their roster two days before training camp, acquiring the draft rights to Jared Jordan on Sunday and working toward a buyout of Dan Dickau’s contract. The Knicks traded cash considerations to the Los Angeles Clippers in a deal that sends last season’s NCAA assists leader back to New York. Read Original Post Here
The New Orleans Hornets traded forward Cedric Simmons, the No. 15 overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft, to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday for David Wesley and undisclosed cash considerations. Hornets general manager Jeff Bower said the trade freed salary cap space. They plan to waive Wesley once Simmons passes a physical and the trade is final. Read Original Post Here
In many ways, the first day of training camp for the Minnesota Timberwolves was like so many that came before it. Coaches hollered instruction. Players gasped for air during conditioning drills. Optimism abounded at the start of a new season. But someone was certainly missing. For the first time in 13 seasons, Kevin Garnett isn’t here. Read Original Post Here
The Cleveland Cavaliers finally made a few offseason moves, signing free agent guard Devin Brown on Saturday and trading guard David Wesley to the New Orleans Hornets for forward Cedric Simmons. Brown averaged 11.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists — all career-highs — for the New Orleans Hornets last season. Read Original Post Here
One of the slogans the Miami Heat’s marketing crew used this summer was “There is no offseason.” Oh, how the Heat probably wish that were true. It’s often been difficult during the five months since Miami’s championship reign ended. The Heat missed some free-agent targets, lost three rotation members, endured forward Antoine Walker being robbed at gunpoint in his home and had other players’… Read Original Post Here
The Cleveland Cavaliers signed free agent guard Devin Brown to a contract Saturday in their first offseason roster move. Brown averaged 11.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists — all career-highs — for the New Orleans Hornets last season. The 6-foot-5 Brown can play both guard positions as well as small forward. Read Original Post Here
New Jersey Nets backup point guard Marcus Williams broke a bone in his right foot and will have surgery on Monday. Nets president Rod Thorn did not know how the second-year pro from Connecticut broke his fifth metatarsal. Williams is expected to be sidelined about six weeks, which will cause him to miss training camp. Read Original Post Here
The jurors asked for hundreds of pages of testimony and documents, for guidance on a legal point, even for Madison Square Garden’s organizational chart. But they reached no verdict in their first full day of deliberations in a former top New York Knicks executive’s sexual harassment case against coach Isiah Thomas.
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The Minnesota Timberwolves traded guard Trenton Hassell to the Dallas Mavericks for guard Greg Buckner on Friday night. Hassell, who spent the last four seasons with the Wolves, averaged 6.7 points per game and three rebounds in 476 games. In 2006-07, he played in 76 games and averaged 6.7 points and 3.2 rebounds. Read Original Post Here
A jury asked for hundreds of pages of testimony and documents before finishing its first full day of deliberations Friday in the sexual harassment case brought by a former top New York Knicks executive against coach Isiah Thomas. The jury asked for transcripts of testimony of four men, including Thomas, along with e-mails sent by the plaintiff, Anucha Browne Sanders, to the president of Madison…
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