Opt-out

Dwight Howard is now a free agent. As expected, the big man opted out of the last year of his deal with the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/745374808385462272] The big man was slated to earn around $23.3 million next season, a salary no other team is likely to match now [...]

The Dwight Howard experiment in Houston may be nearing its end. A few years ago, his arrival to the Rockets was a huge social media phenomenon, as he chose to take less money to get out of L.A. Only a few years in, he’s reportedly not happy with playing in Harden’s shadow. Frankly, it is [...]

The Bulls have been the sexy pick out East for quite some time now, but that appears to be vanishing with each passing year. Slowly, core guys like Luol Deng leave, Derrick Rose sustains major injuries, and coaches turnover. And who can forget Derrick Rose telling Bulls media during Media Day that he’s “preparing” for [...]

June 30, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Whenever the pending lockout allows, there will be some legit free agent names out there to be acquired. It’s not exactly the Summer of 2010 but there are a bunch of serviceable Centers available. We can now add Denver’s Nene to that list. Nene will opt out of [...]

July 9th, 2008 – Dr. Dime Well I must say that I didn’t see this one coming at all!! Elton Brand according to multiple sources, at the end of the day will be signing with the Philadelphia 76ers for a reported $82 million over 5 years. In fact as of yesterday I was agreeing with [...]

June 17th, 2008 – Dr. Dime In Part I of our NBA pre-draft trade rumors we discussed a couple of Raptors-Knicks and Raptors-Pistons trade talks. Although we have heard that the calls of Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo to Pistons GM Joe Dumars have begun to go unanswered as of late, there apparently are still mutual [...]

May 11th, 2008 – Dr. Dime Baron Davis has one more year left on his six year, $84 million contract extension he signed with the New Orleans Hornets, before getting traded to the Golden State Warriors. What some fans in Golden State weren’t aware of regarding Davis’ contract is the player option he has to [...]