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Grizzlies president Jerry West claims that he isn't done remaking the Grizzlies. "Our roster isn't going to look like it looks right now," West told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "If we're able to do one more thing, I think we'll have two or three players at every position."
That one more thing is adding a tough, defensive-minded center. West, apparently, has the goods to get one. Wesley Person and Brevin Knight, both in the last year of their contracts, are the trade bait. Can the Grizzlies get a team like the Warriors (Erick Dampier) or the Hawks (Nazr Mohammed) to give up a big guy for more cap space next summer?
If they don't, they'll be stuck with some serious logjams in the backcourt. West told the Commercial Appeal on Wednesday that Michael Dickerson is recovering nicely from his two year sports hernia injury.
Michael Dickerson
Shooting Guard
Memphis Grizzlies
Profile
2002-2003 SEASON STATISTICS
GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT%
6 4.8 1.0 1.3 .417 1.000
"He's been doing really well," West said of Dickerson. West said that Posey will be the starting two guard for the team. That means that Dickerson, Person and rookie Dahntay Jones will have to fight it out for minutes. The team also has four point guards in Knight, Jason Williams, Earl Watson and rookie Troy Bell.
The Nuggets are still trying to add depth to their backcourt. According to the Rocky Mountain News, their decision may boil down to either Stephen Jackson or Hawks guard Dion Glover. Jackson has already made a visit to Denver, and Glover is expected to visit later this week.
Agent David Bauman also claims that the Nuggets have strong interest in forward Predrag Drobjnak. However, they aren't the only ones.
"The Nuggets have identified (Drobnjak) as one of their top guys," Bauman said. "I know they're trying to get their shooting guard done. But there is Portland, with (Arvydas) Sabonis having retired, and some other teams that could gobble (Drobnjak) up."
The Knicks finally got a European to sign a contract with them. After the Frederic Weis and Milos Vujanic disasters, everyone breathed a sigh of relief with Maciej Lampe worked out a buyout with Real Madrid, paving the way for the Knicks to sign him to a three-year, $2.9 million deal.
Lampe's buyout with Real Madrid was reportedly lowered from $2 million down to $900,000. The Knicks will pay $350,000 of that, Lampe will be responsible for the rest.
The Knicks had to use a portion of their mid-level exception to fit Lampe in under their cap.
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Peep Show
By Terry Brown
NBA Insider
Thursday, August 14
Updated: August 14
11:24 AM ET
Atlanta Hawks: David McDavid wants to buy the Hawks as well as the Thrashers and Phillips Arena from AOL Time Warner. AOL Time Warner wants to sell to Mr. McDavid. Too bad it isn't that easy. "I woke up the other day and thought, 'Why in the world is this taking so long?' " McDavid told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "I can't figure it out, either. I don't know how many times I've talked to my attorneys and accountants and people, and they say it's almost done, and then it doesn't get done, and for the life of me I don't know why. . . . And I don't know that it's anybody's fault." So far, it's taken 107 days for the two parties just to get to this point. July 15 was the original projected complete date, but legal experts point out that a similar deal involving the Knicks, Rangers and Madison Square took 103 days.
Milwaukee Bucks: Terry Porter, recently named the head coach of the Bucks, has chosen one of his former coaches, Mike Schuler, to be his assistant. "I do remember him always being prepared, always running an organized practice," Porter said in the Journal Sentinel. "When I was still playing in San Antonio, he was scouting for some teams in the league, and we stayed in contact." Schuler has spent 16 years in the NBA as a coach and scout, being named the Coach of the Year in 1987 as head coach of te Portland Blazers.
Minnesota Timberwolves: Former head coach Sidney Lowe was named an assistant coach on the team, reports the Star Tribune. Lowe previously coached the team to a 33-92 record between 1993 and 1994 before becoming head coach of the Grizzlies in 2000.
Grizzlies president Jerry West claims that he isn't done remaking the Grizzlies. "Our roster isn't going to look like it looks right now," West told the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "If we're able to do one more thing, I think we'll have two or three players at every position."
That one more thing is adding a tough, defensive-minded center. West, apparently, has the goods to get one. Wesley Person and Brevin Knight, both in the last year of their contracts, are the trade bait. Can the Grizzlies get a team like the Warriors (Erick Dampier) or the Hawks (Nazr Mohammed) to give up a big guy for more cap space next summer?
If they don't, they'll be stuck with some serious logjams in the backcourt. West told the Commercial Appeal on Wednesday that Michael Dickerson is recovering nicely from his two year sports hernia injury.
Michael Dickerson
Shooting Guard
Memphis Grizzlies
Profile
2002-2003 SEASON STATISTICS
GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT%
6 4.8 1.0 1.3 .417 1.000
"He's been doing really well," West said of Dickerson. West said that Posey will be the starting two guard for the team. That means that Dickerson, Person and rookie Dahntay Jones will have to fight it out for minutes. The team also has four point guards in Knight, Jason Williams, Earl Watson and rookie Troy Bell.
The Nuggets are still trying to add depth to their backcourt. According to the Rocky Mountain News, their decision may boil down to either Stephen Jackson or Hawks guard Dion Glover. Jackson has already made a visit to Denver, and Glover is expected to visit later this week.
Agent David Bauman also claims that the Nuggets have strong interest in forward Predrag Drobjnak. However, they aren't the only ones.
"The Nuggets have identified (Drobnjak) as one of their top guys," Bauman said. "I know they're trying to get their shooting guard done. But there is Portland, with (Arvydas) Sabonis having retired, and some other teams that could gobble (Drobnjak) up."
The Knicks finally got a European to sign a contract with them. After the Frederic Weis and Milos Vujanic disasters, everyone breathed a sigh of relief with Maciej Lampe worked out a buyout with Real Madrid, paving the way for the Knicks to sign him to a three-year, $2.9 million deal.
Lampe's buyout with Real Madrid was reportedly lowered from $2 million down to $900,000. The Knicks will pay $350,000 of that, Lampe will be responsible for the rest.
The Knicks had to use a portion of their mid-level exception to fit Lampe in under their cap.
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Peep Show
By Terry Brown
NBA Insider
Thursday, August 14
Updated: August 14
11:24 AM ET
Atlanta Hawks: David McDavid wants to buy the Hawks as well as the Thrashers and Phillips Arena from AOL Time Warner. AOL Time Warner wants to sell to Mr. McDavid. Too bad it isn't that easy. "I woke up the other day and thought, 'Why in the world is this taking so long?' " McDavid told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "I can't figure it out, either. I don't know how many times I've talked to my attorneys and accountants and people, and they say it's almost done, and then it doesn't get done, and for the life of me I don't know why. . . . And I don't know that it's anybody's fault." So far, it's taken 107 days for the two parties just to get to this point. July 15 was the original projected complete date, but legal experts point out that a similar deal involving the Knicks, Rangers and Madison Square took 103 days.
Milwaukee Bucks: Terry Porter, recently named the head coach of the Bucks, has chosen one of his former coaches, Mike Schuler, to be his assistant. "I do remember him always being prepared, always running an organized practice," Porter said in the Journal Sentinel. "When I was still playing in San Antonio, he was scouting for some teams in the league, and we stayed in contact." Schuler has spent 16 years in the NBA as a coach and scout, being named the Coach of the Year in 1987 as head coach of te Portland Blazers.
Minnesota Timberwolves: Former head coach Sidney Lowe was named an assistant coach on the team, reports the Star Tribune. Lowe previously coached the team to a 33-92 record between 1993 and 1994 before becoming head coach of the Grizzlies in 2000.
