Posted by TMS:

what? i thought free agents never leave for other teams? this must be a type-o.

Posted by TrueBlue:

The more I think about it the more I feel Diddy definitely signs with the Clips while Magz leaves for Orlando while Brand re-ups.

If Diddy lands there the Clips team will be kind of nasty....

pg=Boom-Dizzle/Knight
g=Gordon/Mobley
sf=Thorton/Thomas
pf=Brand/FA
C=Kaman/Jordan

Also with Livingston on the way out they have plenty of cap room.

Sources: Clippers pursuing Davis
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
32 minutes ago

The Los Angeles Clippers are making a hard run at signing free agent Baron Davis, multiple league sources said late Monday night.

Hours before the midnight deadline, the Golden State Warriors point guard opted out of the $17.8 million owed him in the final season of his six-year contract. Davis could still re-sign with the Warriors, but the possibility of returning to Southern California, where he grew up and played at UCLA, must intrigue him.

Davis’ decision stunned league executives and agents late Monday.

“He has to have some kind of a deal somewhere,” an Eastern Conference general manager said. “You just don’t opt out of that kind of money.”

Davis’ career had been reborn under Don Nelson’s small ball, but acrimony over contract talks have cooled the relationship between the Warriors and him. What’s more, Davis could be facilitating a sign-and-trade between Golden State and Los Angeles, or elsewhere.

The possibility of bringing Davis to the Clippers promises to be a major incentive in re-signing their own free agent, forward Elton Brand.

The Clippers still have a brief window to make a run at Gilbert Arenas, but the Wizards were close to agreeing to a $100 million contract with Arenas, an Eastern Conference executive said early Tuesday. Once Washington re-signed Antawn Jamison for four years, $50 million, Washington officials believed Arenas was falling into line, too.

The Clippers watched two players – Brand and Corey Maggette – opt out on Monday, but Brand has expressed a strong desire to negotiate a new contract with Los Angeles. Finding a way to fit Davis, 29, into the franchise would only make Brand – who left $16.4 million on the table – more eager to stay with the team.

Orlando and New Orleans are possible destinations for Maggette, sources said. Maggette, who scored 22 points a game a year ago, has probably played his last game for the Clippers.

Before Davis opted out, sources said the Clippers were prepared to make a lucrative long-term offer to Sacramento Kings point guard Beno Udrih. Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy is believed to be enamored with Udrih, who blossomed after leaving the long shadow of Tony Parker in San Antonio. Without a Clippers offer, Udrih will probably re-sign with the Kings for the mid-level exception – perhaps at three years, approximately $15.4 million.

Posted by djsunyc:

i think it was an achilles injury, not acl.

Posted by djsunyc:

it could be the clippers...b/c dunleavy said they are getting a pg. they had their sites set on calderon, udrih, and diddy.

but calderon and the raptors reached an agreement today. so he's out.



which leaves udrih + diddy.

fyi, carlos delfino was offered the qualifying offer but a greek team offered him a lucrative 3 year deal so he may bolt the nba. another greek team also offered anthony parker a lucrative 3 year deal but he may stay in the US, or be traded and then leave the nba for greece saving his new team some money.

That Calderon logo is SICK! Seriously


It's Diddy because Udrih will sign with Dallas or Kings and Brand has already informed Clippers he's re-upping, he's just waiting on them to add talent to the roster.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 07-01-2008 09:18 AM]