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« Reply #45 on: July 29, 2008, 09:22:07 AM »

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Charlotte Bobcats General Manager Rod Higgins confirmed this morning that the team has agreed to a six year, $72 million deal with Emeka Okafor. Higgins expects the contract to be signed in the next few days.

The agreement with Okafor, who was the Bobcats' first-ever draft choice, represents Charlotte's biggest expenditure on one player.

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Okafor averaged 13.7 points, 10.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks last season in 33.2 minutes per game but never clicked with coach Sam Vincent, who was fired by team president and former teammate Michael Jordan after just one season. Okafor has already played for Brown on the 2004 U.S. Olympic team.

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« Reply #46 on: July 29, 2008, 09:35:25 AM »

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Nets restricted free agent Nenad Krstic has signed a two year deal with Triumph Moscow worth approximately $10 million.

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The interest from a relatively unknown team in Russia, Triumph, will certainly raise even more eyebrows.

Krstic, 25, was averaging 16.4 points and 6.8 rebounds in 2006, but missed most of the season after suffering a torn left knee ligament. He then struggled to return to form last year, averaging 6.6 points and 4.4 rebounds in forty-five games.

According to some reports the second year of the deal is a player option.

New Jersey will retain Krstic's NBA rights for at least the next two seasons, provided they tender qualifying offers to him every summer. His qualifying offer for the upcoming season was $2.7 million, which will count against the Nets’ salary cap.
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« Reply #47 on: July 29, 2008, 04:45:47 PM »

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Randolph Morris, the former Landmark Christian star will continue his career with the Atlanta Hawks according to two people familiar with the situation.

Morris, a 6'11", 270lb forward/center has agreed to a two-year deal with the Hawks for the NBA minimum salary.

The formal announcement for his signing, as well as that of veteran swingman Mo Evans, is expected as early as Wednesday.

Quote from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Morris finished the last two seasons on the roster of the New York Knicks, having logged limited minutes as a reserve under former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas. He's played in just 23 NBA games, starting twice last season, averaging 2.6 points, 2.0 rebounds and 9.8 minutes in his career.

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« Reply #48 on: July 30, 2008, 10:55:53 AM »

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General manager John Paxson is expected to confirm today that the Chicago Bulls have reached an agreement with restricted free agent Luol Deng on a six-year deal worth a guaranteed $71 million.

The offer includes incentives which could push the contract's value to $80 million, sources have said.

Quote from: The Chicago Tribune
After recent front-loaded contracts signed by Kirk Hinrich and Andres Nocioni, this contract is back-loaded so the first-year salary is the lowest and helps the Bulls remain out of luxury-tax territory, sources said.

About $8 million is left under the cap for the Bulls, who are still negotiating with Ben Gordon.

The 23 year-old Deng averaged 17.0 points and 6.3 rebounds for the Bulls last season.

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« Reply #49 on: July 31, 2008, 05:13:58 PM »

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The Los Angeles Clippers have signed veteran forward Brian Skinner. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.

Originally drafted by the Clippers in the first round of the 1998 NBA Draft, Skinner is a 10-year NBA veteran who returns to Los Angeles after playing 66 games last season with the Phoenix Suns. Skinner averaged 3.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists for Phoenix in '07-'08.

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« Reply #50 on: August 01, 2008, 12:11:08 AM »

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The Philadelphia 76ers agreed to terms today with restricted free agent guard Louis Williams on a five-year contract, worth a reported $25 million.

Williams, the 45th pick in the 2005 NBA draft as a high school senior, appeared in 80 games for the 76ers last season and averaged 11.5 points, 3.2 assists and 1 steal in 23 minutes per game.
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« Reply #51 on: August 03, 2008, 02:26:54 PM »

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The Orlando Magic and veteran center Adonal Foyle reached an agreement on a one-year contract Friday, worth $1.3 million.

Foyle, 33, played in all 82 games with the Magic last season, backing up starting center Dwight Howard. Foyle exercised an opt-out clause in his contract back in June, looking for a situation where he could get more playing time, but instead, less than two months later, decided to re-sign with the Magic.

Because Foyle received the veteran’s minimum for a player with ten or more years of NBA experience, Orlando will be responsible for just $797,581 of his contract and the league will subsidize the rest.

The Magic now have thirteen players on the roster.
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« Reply #52 on: August 03, 2008, 02:29:44 PM »

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The Los Angeles Lakers have signed free agent guard Dwayne Mitchell, it was announced Friday. Per team policy, terms of the agreement were not released.

Mitchell, a 6’5” 220-pound guard out of Louisiana Lafayette, played the majority of last season for the Iowa Energy of the NBA Development League, where he averaged 20.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.60 steals in 37 minutes.


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« Reply #53 on: August 03, 2008, 02:37:20 PM »

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The Detroit Pistons agreed to terms on a one-year deal with backup forward Walter Herrmann, Friday.

The team acquired the 6'9", twenty-nine year-old Argentine last season from the Charlotte Bobcats as part of a trade that included center Nazr Mohammed.

He appeared in only 28 games for the Pistons, where he averaged 7.1 minutes and 3.0 points per game for Detroit, but the Pistons like his size, toughness and three-point ability. Financial terms have not yet been released.

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Realgm is reporting that Carlos Arroyo has signed with Maccabi in Israel.

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Re: Official Free Agent *News Only* Thread
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The Cleveland Cavaliers made their first move in the free agent market this year by agreeing to terms with former Memphis Grizzlies guard Tarence Kinsey.

Kinsey, 24, played 11 games with Memphis last season, averaging 3.6 points on 42.1 percent shooting in 8.7 minutes per game. He averaged 9.2 points in fourteen games with Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul in that team's regular season, and averaged 8.8 points on 49.2 percent shooting in twelve Euroleague games.

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« Reply #57 on: August 05, 2008, 10:47:12 PM »

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The Miami Heat has decided to give forward Bobby Jones a second chance. First released by the Heat in late March after playing with the team on a 10-day contract, during which he averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds in 23.8 minutes per game, he was claimed off waivers today from the New York Knicks.

The move completes a whirlwind for Jones, who was traded along with guard Taurean Green from Denver to New York on July 28 in exchange for Knicks swingman Renaldo Balkman. The Knicks then waived Jones and Green the following day, on July 29, before their 2008-09 salaries became guaranteed.

Now Jones's salary will not become guaranteed until August 15. That means the Heat could use his salary in the interim in a trade or simply waive him by that deadline without incurring a financial hit toward its salary cap or luxury tax.

Jones played with five NBA teams last season, appearing in 47 games overall, for the Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Miami Heat, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.

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« Reply #58 on: August 08, 2008, 10:42:22 PM »

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The Charlotte Bobcats signed guard Shannon Brown to a one-year deal Wednesday for the NBA minimum worth approximately $800,000.

The 6'4" swingman played in 21 games for Cleveland and Chicago last season, averaging 5.4 ppg, and had two stints in the NBADL.

Brown was the 25th overall pick by Cleveland in 2006 and was limited to 23 games as a rookie because of a leg injury. The Cavaliers declined to pick up the option year on his contract and traded him to Chicago in February in the Ben Wallace deal. The signing leaves the Bobcats with 14 players under contract.

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« Reply #59 on: August 08, 2008, 10:43:36 PM »

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The Lakers and point guard Sun Yue have agreed to terms on a two-season contract, the team confirmed Thursday. The Lakers hope to sign Sun formally within the next few days.

The Lakers drafted the 6'9" Sun in the second round in 2007. He spent last season with Aoshen, his Beijing club team, and also played with the Chinese National team in preparation for the Olympics.