'Nasty News - Traversing Time & Space' Vol: 54

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Rockets waive Brent Barry
Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the team has waived guard Brent Barry.

Barry (6-7, 210, Oregon State) signed as a free agent with the Rockets prior to last season on July 10 and averaged 3.7 points and 1.4 assists in 56 games (one start) played. The 14-year NBA veteran was selected by the Denver Nuggets with the 15th overall selection in the 1995 NBA Draft before being traded to the Los Angeles Clippers prior to his rookie season. Barry played two and a half seasons with the Clippers before being traded to the Miami Heat on Feb. 19, 1998. His playing career also included stops in Chicago (1998-99), Seattle (1999-2004) and San Antonio (2004-08). He has averaged 9.3 points, 3.2 assists and 3.0 rebounds over 912 (449 starts) career games played.

The Rockets roster now stands at 15 players: David Andersen, Trevor Ariza, Shane Battier, Aaron Brooks, Chase Budinger, Brian Cook, Joey Dorsey, Chuck Hayes, Carl Landry, Kyle Lowry, Tracy McGrady, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Luis Scola, Jermaine Taylor and Yao Ming.

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Knicks exercise options on Wilson Chandler and Danilo Gallinari
New York Knickerbockers President of Basketball Operations Donnie Walsh announced today that the team has exercised its fourth-year option on forward Wilson Chandler and its third-year option on forward Danilo Gallinari.

Chandler, 6-8, 225-pounds, has averaged 12.3 points and 4.9 rebounds in 117 games over his first two NBA seasons. The Benton Harbor, MI-native enjoyed a breakout sophomore campaign last season, averaging 14.4 points and 5.4 rebounds while playing in all 82 games and was also selected to play in the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge at 2009 NBA All-Star Weekend in Phoenix.

Gallinari, 6-10, 225-pounds, averaged 6.1 points and 2.0 rebounds in 28 games as a rookie in 2008-09. The Milan, Italy-native was selected by New York with the sixth overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

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Dionte Christmas arrested on firearms charges
Dionte Christmas, a 6-5, 205-pound basketball player released by the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, decided to spend the next day driving badly without a license with a gun under his seat.

The AP reports: Police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore says Christmas was stopped by Highway Patrol officers at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday for erratic driving in North Philadelphia. Vanore says he was found to be driving without a license, and the vehicle had a 9mm semiautomatic pistol under the driver’s seat.

The report says he’s going to be charged with a felony. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: He was initially stopped for driving erratically, and subsequently found to be driving without a license, Vanore said. The vehicle had a Hi-Point 9mm semiautomatic pistol under the driver’s seat with seven rounds in it, Vanore said. Christmas was taken to the 35th Police District to be charged with felony firearms offenses. His passenger was not charged, Vanore said. Talent-wise, Christmas might be good enough to make an NBA roster but more than likely will head to Europe for an overseas career.

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Yeah, Bobby Jackson (Sacramento Kings) is reportedly retiring: http://bit.ly/4AEOn5

THANK YOU WIRETAP.

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rafeal in detroit:
who should rip hamilton be traded for?

Yannis Koutroupis:
Carlos Boozer still makes the most sense.

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rafeal in detroit:
who should pistons target in 2010 fa class with the mle?

Yannis Koutroupis:
Little early, don't you think? They'll probably look for a center though.

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rafeal in detroit:
last question yannis thanks shouldnt pistons send rip hamilton for cap space? to denver? then we could target a big name fa with the 12m we just cleared and since we are at the cap it would be 12m

Yannis Koutroupis:
I'm sure Denver would love that, but Rip's an All-Star caliber player and with so many teams having cap space I think it'd be a mistake for Denver to trade him for anything other than a proven player(s)who can help them right away.

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Detroit Pistons @ Milwaukee Bucks: Charlie Villanueva gets his first look at his former team tonight, and should see plenty of minutes since both Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown are questionable with minor injuries. Joe Alexander's hamstring will have him out of the Bucks' lineup for the foreseeable future, but they are otherwise healthy.

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Michael Ruffin Waived by Thunder
Veteran forward Michael Ruffin has been waived by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Thunder General Manager Sam Presti announced the move Thursday, hours before Oklahoma City's final preseason game against the Sacramento Kings.

Ruffin is a former Tulsa standout who appeared in only one preseason game for the Thunder. He went scoreless and had one rebound in 12 minutes. The 32-year-old Ruffin has played parts of nine seasons in the NBA.

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Philly Extends Speights, Young, Smith
76ers General Manager Ed Stefanski announced today that the team has exercised the third-year contract option for forward-center Marreese Speights and the fourth-year options for forward Thaddeus Young and forward-center Jason Smith.

Of the extensions, Stefanski said, "Thaddeus, Jason, and Marreese are there of our young players who have done everything asked of them and contribute to show improvement every time they step out on the court. We are excited about the way they have developed to this point and we are looking forward to them continuing their careers with the Sixers."

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Curtis Jerrells Waived by Spurs
The Spurs trimmed their roster to 16 players after Thursday's practice, waiving guard Curtis Jerrells, the former Baylor University and Austin Del Valle High School star. Jerrells appeared in five of the Spurs' six preseason games, averaging 3.6 points and 1.8 assists in 14.8 minutes. His downfall in a long-shot attempt to make the roster: 7 for 25 (28.0 percent) shooting. He was 0 for 4 from 3-point range.

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Celtics Cut Mike Sweetney
Despite talk that the Celtics wanted to work with Mike Sweetney to get his weight down with hopes that he could contribute by midyear, the team waived the former Georgetown star yesterday to get the roster down to 15. Sweetney, who averaged 6.4 minutes in five preseason games, was listed at 275 pounds, though he looked larger.

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Wolves: Kevin Love's Surgery a Success
The Minnesota Timberwolves are calling surgery to repair forward Kevin Love’s broken left hand a success.

Love had the surgery on Tuesday in New York and the team said Thursday that everything went well. Dr. Andrew Weiland inserted three screws into Love’s hand, which was broken during a preseason game on Oct. 16 against Chicago.

Love is expected to miss six to eight weeks while recovering

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NY Exercises Gallinari, Chandler Options
The New York Knicks have exercised the fourth-year contract option for forward Wilson Chandler and the third-year option on forward Danilo Gallinari's contract.

Chandler averaged 14.4 points and 5.4 rebounds in 82 games last season, his second after New York took him 23rd overall in the 2007 draft.

Gallinari, the sixth overall pick in 2008, averaged 6.1 points and 2.0 rebounds during his rookie campaign, which consisted of 28 games.

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Jamison Out 3-5 Weeks
The Washington Wizards are forced to start yet another season with a sidelined all-star after an MRI on Thursday revealed that forward Antawn Jamison's right shoulder injury will force him to miss the next three to five weeks.

This is the second consecutive season that the Wizards have started a regular season with at least one major piece missing. Both Gilbert Arenas and Brendan Haywood were out with injuries at the start of last season, and the Wizards went on to match their worst 82-game season in franchise history. The Wizards, though, are optimistic that because Jamison's injury won't require surgery and since his shoulder has made considerable progress in the past week, it would only keep him out the first 10 or so games.

"He's really ahead of where we anticipated, but we're being really conservative right now," Coach Flip Saunders said on Friday, after the Wizards completed shootaround for their preseason finale against the Chicago Bulls. "We're going to be patient with him. We don't want to take any chances. We want to make sure that thing is right and fully healed."

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Ty Lue Retires
Veteran guard Tyronn Lue has joined the Celtics' staff as the director of basketball development.

Lue, who was at practice today in Waltham, will work with the coaching staff and observe practices. The 32-year-old Lue, who averaged 8.5 points per game in 11 NBA seasons for seven teams, won a pair of championship rings as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this decade.

Lue, who is not expected to resume his career as an active player, is close friends with Celtics star Kevin Garnett.

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The Pistons vs. The Timberwolves
UPDATE:
Pistons 114 Timberwolves 122 (Box Score)

Defense…. We knew it was going to be a problem, and I know it’s the preaseon, but when you score 114 points that is usually an indication that you won the game.

Video in the link above^.

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Isiah 'hurt' by Magic's comments
Hall of Fame players Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson famously kissed moments before tip-off of Game 1 of the 1988 NBA finals.

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Pistons score easily, can't get stops
There was a lot of things Pistons coach John Kuester liked about Thursday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. The result wasn’t one of them.