RonRon wrote:The Mavericks reached a verbal agreement with C Samuel Dalembert on Wednesday, reports ESPN's Marc Stein.

Dallas will continue to pursue free-agent center Greg Oden, but it looks like they're signing Sammy D to be their starting center this season. We've jumped on his bandwagon in the past and he has the ability to post some monster lines and block a lot of shots, but he's failed to do so over a sustained period of time. As the starting big man in Dallas, he'll be worth drafting in fantasy, but expectations should be tempered for now.

The Raptors and D.J. Augustin agreed to a one-year deal worth $1.26 million, league sources tell Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski.

Augustin spent last season with the Pacers but hit career lows in almost every relevant category. In Toronto, he'll be the primary backup to Kyle Lowry and hopefully give Toronto enough to be trusted with 10 to 15 minutes a night. Augustin won't have any impact on your fantasy league unless Lowry can't stay healthy, which isn't that farfetched.

The Lakers officially signed G Jordan Farmar on Wednesday.

This was just a formality and he's now on a one-year deal with the Lakers. He played his first four seasons with the Lakers and had his Turkish deal bought out to make this one happen. It's doubtful that Farmar will be worth owning in most fantasy leagues.

NOT the greatest fan of DJ Augustine but feel he has much more value than the 3year deal than Pablo received from us
There are plenty of PG's I would much rather have than Pablo and feel he is a 3rd string PG NOT a 2nd string
Had we not used part of the MINI MLE on Pablo, I feel we could have signed much better options, that would have came for under their market price, with only Raymond Felton to compete with for the job

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/story/22881764/2013/07/19/aaron-brooks-signs-one-year-contract-with-the-rockets

A few things -- either (1) Morey knew we were interested and didn't want us to have Brooks--probably not but this guy def. has a thing for the Knicks; (2) Morey sees him as a favorable inexpensive trading chip later in the season, (3) Brooks has kids and he wanted them to return to a place they were familiar with or (4) we turned our attention away from Brooks (Bobby Brown?) and Brooks felt slighted.

A little tough to swallow -- this guy would've been very good here behind/playing alongside Felton. He had his reasons I guess, but P/T-wise, there would've been more of an opportunity here you figure. I hope none of this had to do with the fact that the Knicks are telling potential PGs that Prigioni's the main backup and that whoever they're talking about will be #3. PP needs to be the #3 guy imo..

Finestrg wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Brooks resigned with the Rockets. Rockets have Lin, Beverly, Brooks and Canaan at the point guard position. I have to wonder if Morey moves Lin if he can.

Right -- that's a 5th possibility, that they look to move Lin, which you figure will be really hard after giving him that ridiculous contract to keep him away from us. Who's gonna want that contract?

Bonn1997 wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Brooks resigned with the Rockets. Rockets have Lin, Beverly, Brooks and Canaan at the point guard position. I have to wonder if Morey moves Lin if he can.

Right -- that's a 5th possibility, that they look to move Lin, which you figure will be really hard after giving him that ridiculous contract to keep him away from us. Who's gonna want that contract?

I think the cap hit for his salary is just 8 mil per for 2 years, which isn't so bad.

I could never figure out whether the Rockets could spread his payments out at that figure (but the cap numbers remained at the original deal, something like $5 mil, $5 mil, $14mil) or vice versa.

Even at $8mil per, why would a team want him? he's overpriced, the Hype's died down so he won't give a marketing boost. If I was a team looking for a PG, I'd rather sign Nate that trade for Lin at that number.

Maybe Lin takes a step forward this year- he hasn't been terrible, but he's been a disappointment for that salary.

smackeddog wrote:It seems there aren't really any game-changing FA's left to get excited about. Unless you're a Nate fan I suppose (and he looks like he's heading to Denver). Wonder what we're waiting for wih regards to K-Mart- there are no better PF/C targets anymore (I can't help but wonder if his knee's look like they won't hold up- it's odd that we haven't been in a rush to re-sign him).

Looking like Bobby Brown, maybe K-Mart, 2 players from summer league and we're done. Not very exciting, but i supose i was being unrealistic hoping for Brand, or Dalambert or something.

We really need one of those summer leaguers to be good at rebounding- we never really addressed that this offseason (in fact with Bargs coming in, and losing Sheed, Camby and Kurt our rebounding got worse).

About Nate...you gotta wonder why Chicago doesn't want him back. He played well for them. For a talented player sure seems like he has a short shelf life. Can his immaturity be that bad?

smackeddog wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Brooks resigned with the Rockets. Rockets have Lin, Beverly, Brooks and Canaan at the point guard position. I have to wonder if Morey moves Lin if he can.

Right -- that's a 5th possibility, that they look to move Lin, which you figure will be really hard after giving him that ridiculous contract to keep him away from us. Who's gonna want that contract?

I think the cap hit for his salary is just 8 mil per for 2 years, which isn't so bad.

I could never figure out whether the Rockets could spread his payments out at that figure (but the cap numbers remained at the original deal, something like $5 mil, $5 mil, $14mil) or vice versa.

Even at $8mil per, why would a team want him? he's overpriced, the Hype's died down so he won't give a marketing boost. If I was a team looking for a PG, I'd rather sign Nate that trade for Lin at that number.

Maybe Lin takes a step forward this year- he hasn't been terrible, but he's been a disappointment for that salary.

joec32033 wrote:

smackeddog wrote:It seems there aren't really any game-changing FA's left to get excited about. Unless you're a Nate fan I suppose (and he looks like he's heading to Denver). Wonder what we're waiting for wih regards to K-Mart- there are no better PF/C targets anymore (I can't help but wonder if his knee's look like they won't hold up- it's odd that we haven't been in a rush to re-sign him).

Looking like Bobby Brown, maybe K-Mart, 2 players from summer league and we're done. Not very exciting, but i supose i was being unrealistic hoping for Brand, or Dalambert or something.

We really need one of those summer leaguers to be good at rebounding- we never really addressed that this offseason (in fact with Bargs coming in, and losing Sheed, Camby and Kurt our rebounding got worse).

About Nate...you gotta wonder why Chicago doesn't want him back. He played well for them. For a talented player sure seems like he has a short shelf life. Can his immaturity be that bad?

He can't outshine the franchise "Derrick Rose"