From the AP: The re-signing of Prince, a 31-year old swingman known for his bizarre-yet-effective shooting stroke, extremely long arms, and quality defense, doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense for a rebuilding team like the Pistons -- why pay $7 million a year over four years for a solid starter on the tail end of his prime who will become far less effective as he gets less athletic?
From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Afflalo, who excels at perimeter defense and knocking down open shots, is the type of solid role player that teams love to have -- players with the athleticism to play good defense, the ability to make three-point shots, and the maturity to not use their shooting range and athleticism to force tough shots are not easy to come by.
From Alex Kennedy of Hoopsworld: It makes sense that so many contenders are interested in Crawford, who LeBron James attempted to recruit via Twitter a few years back.
From ESPN.com’s Ric Bucher: Ellis is owed $11 million a year through the 2013/14 season, while Gay’s contract size will increase until he is owed $19 million in the 2014/15 season.
From Paul Coro of the Arizona Republic: It had been widely speculated that the 39-year old Hill might be willing to take a massive pay cut, take his talents to South Beach, and chase that elusive ring, but Coro lays out a pretty compelling list of reasons why Hill will probably remain in Phoenix for the remainder of his career.
More good stuff from Sports Illustrated’s Zach Lowe: As Lowe points out, the NBA’s all-time leader in 4-point plays is a jump shooter who prefers to work in isolation as much or more than the NBA’s best guards and wings, not particularly adept at getting to the basket or a lights-out catch-and-shoot guy, and a borderline liability on defense.
Sports Illustrated’s Zach Lowe recently did a great interview with forward Aaron Afflalo, who is a free agent after four seasons with Detroit and Denver.
From CSN Chicago’s Aggrey Sam: Click through to the full article to see what the popular former Celtics and Bulls forward thinks about the time he’s spent in Italy, how he’s still a fan favorite overseas, and what the current free agent’s plans for the future are.
From CSNChicago.com’s Aggrey Sam: If Deng, who played for Great Britan’s team during this summer’s FIBA EuroBasket Tournament, were to go overseas, it would be a fairly big deal.
From Oden’s Facebook page (via Blazer’s Edge): The 2007 #1 pick’s NBA career has been decimated by a series of brutal knee injuries, and he underwent the 2nd microfracture surgery of his career 11 months ago.
LeBron James has drawn criticism over the past few years for coming across as narcissistic and/or programmed in his public statements, completely turning the city of Cleveland against him with “The Decision,” melting down in the 2010 Eastern Conference Semifinals and the 2011 NBA Finals, and his receding hairline.
ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst has some news that really shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody: According to Windhorst, there have been some reports that Lakers owner Jerry Buss and Knicks owner Jim Dolan have been “aggressively pushing” for reform, but almost everyone seems to agree that Arison is not pleased about having a super-team sitting around and not playing basketball with three stars missing a year of their prime and a year of their contracts with the Heat.
New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams is over in Turkey, playing pro basketball for Beskitas, and he’s blogging about the whole experience on his website.
I’m guessing that this was hosted by Kirilenko’s new Russian team, which would honestly make me look at the Heat’s “welcome party” from last off-season in an entirely new light.
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