BUCKS REQUEST WAIVERS ON BOWEN


July 31, 2009 | 4:02pm

The Milwaukee Bucks have requested waivers on guard/forward Bruce Bowen, General Manager John Hammond announced today.

Bowen was acquired from San Antonio on June 23 as part of the three-team trade that also brought the Bucks Kurt Thomas from San Antonio and Amir Johnson from Detroit. Richard Jefferson was sent to San Antonio while Fabricio Oberto went to Detroit to complete the trade.

Bowen, 38, is a 13-year NBA veteran who spent the previous eight seasons with San Antonio.


BUCKS REQUEST WAIVERS ON STOUDAMIRE


July 31, 2009 | 3:17pm

The Milwaukee Bucks have requested waivers on guard Salim Stoudamire, General Manager John Hammond announced today.

Stoudamire, 26, was signed as a free agent on April 3, but did not appear in a game with Milwaukee. He appeared in 157 games with Atlanta from 2005-08 with career averages of 8.0 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.0 assist. Stoudamire was selected by the Hawks with the 31st pick in the 2005 NBA Draft.


BUCKS COMPLETE TRADE WITH NUGGETS
Bucks acquire Walter Sharpe, Sonny Weems and cash considerations for Malik Allen

July 31, 2009 | 1:46pm

The Milwaukee Bucks have acquired forward Walter Sharpe, guard/forward Sonny Weems and cash considerations from the Denver Nuggets for forward Malik Allen, General Manager John Hammond announced today.

Sharpe (6-9, 245) was originally drafted by Seattle (Oklahoma City Thunder) in the second round of the 2008 NBA Draft (32nd overall) and traded to Detroit along with Trent Plaisted (46th overall) for the draft rights to D.J. White (29th overall). The 23-year-old appeared in eight games for the Pistons last season and averaged 1.0 point in 2.4 minutes per game. He also played in four games for the Ft. Wayne Mad Ants of the D-League and tallied 10.8 points and 3.5 rebounds per game. Sharpe was traded to Denver with Arron Afflalo and cash considerations from Detroit for a future second round draft choice on July 13, 2009.

Weems (6-6, 203) appeared in 12 games for the Nuggets as a rookie and averaged 1.6 points in 4.6 minutes per game. He also saw action in 21 contests for the Colorado 14ers of the D-League where he posted 20.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. Weems was the 39th overall pick by Chicago in the 2008 NBA Draft and traded to Denver for a second round pick in the most recent 2009 Draft.

An eight-year NBA veteran, Allen (6-10, 255) played in 49 games (3 starts) for Milwaukee last season and averaged 3.2 points and 2.1 rebounds per game. In 409 career NBA games, Allen has averages of 5.4 points and 3.0 rebounds while shooting 44.3 percent from the field and 77.4 percent from the free throw line.

this means knicks will have to go well over $3M to keep bucks from matching on Sessions.

Looks like school is in sessions, soon, for us.

Things are about to free up it would seem.

The Knicks look to be finally getting to the offseason stage.

This is good news, not just for you guys wanting Sessions or JWill or Iverson (I've said enough about how I don't), but more for Lee and Nate.

They're about to become sought after.

Initially I thought that Donnie would waste no time this offseason in shoring things up but it went the other way. I understand why... we don't have assets, and our available players weren't on the top of anyone's lists, and the players we could get had to sit and wait while better players who we could not get found homes.

Things are going to free up next week.

What's the over under on the amount of days before Bowen is a Spur again?

What about offering Bowen a 1 year deal, teaching the youngsters a thing or two about defense?

Posted by alexs:

What about offering Bowen a 1 year deal, teaching the youngsters a thing or two about defense?

and teaching them how to be a Class A Jerk-Face, to boot. Plus I don't think MDA would want Bowen on his team after Bruce's dirty tactics kept the Suns out of the Finals.