According to a report from Kurt Helin at ProBasketballTalk, Wilson Chandler may be able to opt out of his Chinese Basketball Association contract and return to the NBA – and the Denver Nuggets – much sooner than expected. That rumor is enough reason to place a waiver claim on Ill Will. It’s hard to imagine [...]
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Following up on some things I wrote in Working the Wire this week… I thought the Clippers would have a hard time finding a way to sign JR Smith, but it seems I was a little too optimistic. Based on conversations with one NBA cap guru, I thought the Clips’ only real chance to land [...]
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Just posted to Rotowire – this week’s fantasy NBA waiver recommendations. To the surprise of no one, I led with Jeremy Lin: Now, I don’t want to be accused of irrational Knick-fan exuberance here… the “MVP” chants at Madison Square Garden last night were a little much. And I don’t think Lin compares with other [...]
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After seeing Blake Griffin’s dunk over Kendrick Perkins last week – in a game the Clippers were leading by 19 – I thought it was a matter of time before defenders started enforcing the no-layup rule. Timofey Mozgov apparently agreed. That’s a clean-but-hard foul by Mozgov, and a very solid basketball play. I think we’ll [...]
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The fates of the NBA ballers who signed lockout contracts to play in China probably won’t be settled until March… but that doesn’t mean you should wait until then to place a waiver claim. In fact – depending on your league’s rules, it might make sense to look at Wilson Chandler and Aaron Brooks right [...]
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Our pal Tommy Dee thinks so: Interesting possibility. On one hand, Smith is exactly the sort of player the Knicks could really use – he’s a good-to-great outside shooter with size and the ability to play a little defense. He’d deepen the backcourt rotation considerably and allow Mike D’Antoni to bring both Toney Douglas and [...]
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