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Players Whose Contracts Became Guaranteed

January 8th, 2013 at 4:59pm CST by Luke Adams

For players on non-guaranteed contracts, yesterday represented one of the most important dates on the NBA calendar. Since contracts become guaranteed for the season on Thursday, teams were required to waive non-guaranteed players on Monday, allowing them to clear waivers on Wednesday, to avoid committing to rest-of-season salaries.

While many players were released, those players who survived the cut will now receive full-season salaries for 2012/13. Their teams can, of course, still choose to waive them, but the clubs would be on the hook for the players' full salaries.

Here are the players whose contracts will officially become guaranteed on Thursday, along with their respective teams and their '12/13 salaries:

Kyle Korver (Hawks, $5,000,000)
Daniel Gibson (Cavaliers, $4,792,332)
Jamaal Tinsley (Jazz, $1,352,181)
Rasheed Wallace (Knicks, $1,352,181)
Andray Blatche (Nets, $1,146,337)
Shaun Livingston (Cavaliers, $1,038,447)
Daniel Orton (Thunder, $854,389)
DeAndre Liggins (Thunder, $762,195)
Greg Smith (Rockets, $762,195)
Lance Thomas (Hornets, $762,195)
Jeff Adrien (Bobcats, $653,356)
Garrett Temple (Wizards, $572,943)
Kent Bazemore (Warriors, $473,604)
Chris Copeland (Knicks, $473,604)
Diante Garrett (Suns, $473,604)
Ben Hansbrough (Pacers, $473,604)
DeQuan Jones (Magic, $473,604)
Kevin Murphy (Jazz, $473,604)
Brian Roberts (Hornets, $473,604)
Robert Sacre (Lakers, $473,604)
Luke Zeller (Suns, $473,604)
Kevin Jones (Cavaliers, $390,027)

Storytellers Contracts, ShamSports, and HoopsWorld were used in the creation of this post.

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Hoops Rumors On Facebook/Twitter/RSS

January 3rd, 2013 at 12:44pm CST by Luke Adams

With the 2013 trade deadline just seven weeks away, there are a number of different ways you can follow Hoops Rumors to keep tabs on the latest NBA news and rumors throughout the year.

You can Like us on Facebook, and receive headlines and links for all our posts via your Facebook account. You can also follow us on Twitter to have all our posts and updates sent directly to your Twitter feed. And our RSS feed is located here, if you'd like to follow us using your RSS reader of choice.

If you prefer to receive updates only on roster moves such as signings, cuts, and trades, you can follow our transactions-only feeds via RSS and Twitter.

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Players On Non-Guaranteed Contracts

January 2nd, 2013 at 12:33pm CST by Luke Adams

Nate Robinson had his contract guaranteed today, as we outlined this morning, but Robinson represents the last non-guaranteed player with an early guarantee date. The rest of the NBA's players on non-guaranteed deals will need to remain on their respective team's roster through January 10th.

To avoid being on the hook for a full-season salary for players on non-guaranteed deals, a team must waive the player on or before January 7th, in order to ensure the players clears waivers before the 10th. As such, we're less than a week away from a number of new names hitting the free agent market, and a handful of clubs opening up roster spots.

We're not 100% sure which of the players currently on NBA rosters are on non-guaranteed deals, since that hasn't been reported for many of the contracts signed since the season began. However, based on contract databases at sites such as Storytellers Contracts, ShamSports, and HoopsWorld, we have a pretty good idea about which players may be on the bubble.

Listed below are all the players assumed to be on non-guaranteed deals. Within the next week, they'll either be released or will have their deals guaranteed for the remainder of the season. If they're cut, they'll receive a pro-rated salary based on their service to date. All contracts are worth the minimum salary unless otherwise indicated:

76ers: Maalik Wayns
Bobcats: Jeff Adrien
Bucks: None
Bulls: None
Cavaliers: Daniel Gibson ($4.79MM salary; $2.79MM guaranteed), Kevin Jones, Samardo Samuels, Shaun Livingston
Celtics: Kris Joseph, Jarvis Varnado
Clippers: None
Grizzlies: None
Hawks: Kyle Korver ($5MM salary; $500K guaranteed)
Heat: Josh Harrellson, Terrel Harris
Hornets: Dominic McGuire, Brian Roberts, Lance Thomas
Jazz: Kevin Murphy, Jamaal Tinsley
Kings: None
Knicks: Chris Copeland, Rasheed Wallace
Lakers: Robert Sacre, Darius Johnson-Odom
Magic: DeQuan Jones
Mavericks: Chris Douglas-Roberts
Nets: Andray Blatche
Nuggets: None
Pacers: Ben Hansbrough, Sam Young
Pistons: None
Raptors: Mickael Pietrus
Rockets: Greg Smith ($381K guaranteed), Scott Machado ($237K guaranteed)
Spurs: Gary Neal
Suns: Diante Garrett, Luke Zeller
Thunder: DeAndre Liggins, Daniel Orton
Timberwolves: Lazar Hayward
Trail Blazers: None
Warriors: Kent Bazemore
Wizards: Shelvin Mack, Garrett Temple

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Most Disappointing Long-Term Deals Of 2012

January 1st, 2013 at 9:43pm CST by Chuck Myron

There's a long way to go before we'll have the final verdict on whether the teams who signed players to contracts of three years or longer this offseason made mistakes. Nonetheless, with the 2012 part of the 2012/13 season behind us, we have a clear picture of who might have some early pangs of buyer's remorse. Deron Williams has taken plenty of flak of late for his less-than-stellar play after having re-signed with the Nets to a maximum deal in the summer, but there are a few others whose long-term contracts look like even more burdensome albatrosses for their clubs. Here they are, listed in descending order based on the value of their deals.

  • Roy Hibbert, Pacers (four years, $58.366MM): He's had his moments this season, but Saturday's scoreless effort against the Hawks seems about as low as it can go for someone who just signed a max contract. Hibbert's production in other categories has been fine, but he's averaging single digits in points, something he hasn't done since his rookie year.
  • Ersan Ilyasova, Bucks (five years, $40MM): The 6'9" power forward set career highs in rebounding (8.8) and three-point percentage (45.5%) last season, but this year's numbers are more in line with his career marks of 5.5 RPG and 37.9% from behind the arc. Milwaukee may have gotten caught up in a natural regression to the mean for Ilyasova. 
  • Jeff Green, Celtics (four years, $36MM): His return from heart surgery was a feel-good story as the season began, and his numbers this season are eerily similar to those from his half-season with the Celtics in 2011. Still, $9MM a year to someone producing 9.8 PPG and 3.2 RPG in 23.7 MPG, particularly for a sub-.500 team, does not sound appealing.
  • Courtney Lee, Celtics (four years, $21.35MM): He was supposed to have made up for the absence of Ray Allen's long-distance shooting after knocking in better than 40% of his treys in three of his first four seasons in the league. He's shooting a career-low 30.6% from behind the arc this season as he's been in and out of the starting lineup.
  • Landry Fields, Raptors (three years, $18.725MM): It may be a bit premature to include him on this list, since he's only played seven games so far since returning from injury, but he's been ghastly in his limited playing time, averaging just 2.9 points on 31% shooting in 21 minutes per contest. He's registered a 4.3 PER this season. His deal didn't look too promising for the Raptors when he signed it, and it doesn't look any better now.
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Team Facebook/Twitter/RSS

December 31st, 2012 at 5:02pm CST by Luke Adams

If you want to keep tabs on all of Hoops Rumors' stories and updates, you can follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or subscribe to our feed through your RSS reader of choice. However, if you prefer to only receive news about your favorite NBA team, we have you covered. Below are links to our Facebook, Twitter, and RSS pages and feeds for all 30 teams.

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Hoops Rumors Features

December 25th, 2012 at 8:57am CST by Luke Adams

Hoops Rumors passes along the latest news and rumors on NBA player movement 365 days a year, but those aren't the only updates you'll see on the site. On our right sidebar, you'll find a number of additional features and featured posts. Here's a rundown of a few of them:

  • Our Free Agent Tracker gives you the opportunity to look back on this summer's free agent signings, with data sortable by team, position, contract years, and contract amount. For a quick look at which players remain unsigned, you can check out our list of 2012/13 free agents.
  • We also have free agent lists for both next summer, and the summer of 2014, which will continue to be modified as needed.
  • Throughout the season, we'll be keeping tabs on roster counts for each NBA team, the year's D-League assignments and recalls, and all the trades consummated in-season.
  • Using our 10-day contract tracker, you can find any 10-day contract signed since 2007, sorting by player, team, year, and other variables.
  • Our Offseason in Review series takes a look back at how each of the NBA's 30 teams attempted to improve their rosters between the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons.
  • Our Trade Candidate series has returned for the 2012/13 season, with Pau Gasol the latest trade candidate to be put under the microscope.
  • On Thursdays at 4:00pm CT, I answer readers' questions in a live chat. Due to the holidays, these chats won't resume until the new year, but you can check out transcripts of our past live discussions here.
  • Our list of outstanding traded player exceptions is updated whenever a trade exception is used or expires.
  • We're also tracking teams' amnesty provisions — using our complete list, you can check to see which clubs have used the amnesty clause and which will carry it into next summer.
  • The Hoops Rumors glossary helps explain some of the more complex concepts in the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement.
  • Zach Links rounds up the best of the blogosphere every Saturday in his weekly Hoops Links feature.
  • Our tentative 2013 draft order tracks this season's "reverse standings," allowing for an early look at what next June's draft order might look like.
  • If you're looking to catch up on a few days worth of content, our Week in Review posts round up the week's news and rumors, while our Hoops Rumors Originals posts recap the site's original content for the week. Both round-ups are published every Sunday.
  • Be sure to check out the Featured Posts section on the right sidebar for more original pieces from the Hoops Rumors writing team. Recently, we examined a few important in-season dates, noted which players have the ability to veto trades, and listed the players that can't be dealt until January 15th.
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Following Specific Players On Hoops Rumors

December 24th, 2012 at 5:24pm CST by Luke Adams

As we've outlined before, there are a number of different ways to follow Hoops Rumors via Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. If you don't want to follow all the site's updates, you can follow team-specific or transaction-only Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds. Although we don't have Facebook pages or Twitter feeds for specific players, you can also easily follow all our updates on your favorite player.

If, for instance, you want to keep track of all the latest news and rumors on Chris Paul as he approaches unrestricted free agency, you can visit this page. If you're interested in whether the Raptors may consider trading Jose Calderon to your favorite team, all Calderon-related updates are located here.

Every player we've written about has his own rumors page. You can find your player of choice by using our search box (located in the right sidebar); by clicking his tag at the bottom of a post where he's discussed; or, by simply typing his name in your address bar after hoopsrumors.com, substituting dashes for spaces. For example, Calderon's page is located at hoopsrumors.com/jose-calderon.

In addition to players and teams, there are a number of other subjects you can track by clicking on the tags we use at the bottom of posts. Early updates on the 2013 NBA draft, for instance, can be found on its rumors page. If you want to check out updates on Chris Hansen's quest to bring the NBA back to Seattle, those are all available here.

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Players Who Can’t Be Traded Until January 15th

December 15th, 2012 at 2:14pm CST by Chuck Myron

Today is the day that most general managers in the NBA have been waiting for. December 15th is when most free agents signed over the summer become eligible to be traded, enabling teams dissatisfied with their offseasons to start making adjustments. This applies to players who re-signed with their teams, as well as restricted free agents who inked offer sheets with another team but had the offer sheets matched by their original team. 

A few of the players signed this offseason have to wait a little bit longer. Anyone who signed after September 15th still isn't allowed to be traded, since it hasn't yet been three months after they signed. That includes training camp invitees who made their teams, like Rasheed Wallace and DeQuan Jones, and early season pickups, such as Josh Howard and Shaun Livingston. Players signed after November 21st this season can't be traded at all, since their three-month waiting period expires after the February 21st trade deadline.

There's another group that will become available to be traded January 15th. If a team that's over the cap re-signs a player using Bird rights or Early Bird rights and gives him a raise of better than 20%, and the player had been making more than the minimum salary, the team can't trade that player until January 15th or three months after the signing, whichever is later.

With an assist from Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports (Twitter links) and the ESPN.com Trade Machine, here's a list of players who will become eligible to be traded January 15th:

Here's a list of training camp invitees and early season signees who'll be eligible to be traded later on this season, along with the earliest date they can be included in trades.

A few notes:

  • Spears lists Lavoy Allen and Steve Novak as being ineligible to be traded until January 15th, but I think those guys are eligible to be traded as of today, because they made the minimum salary last season.
  • Chauncey Billups isn't on Spears' list, but he's included on the ESPN Trade Machine list, and I think ESPN is right, unless there's a rule I don't know about regarding players who were amnestied, as Billups was before the 2011/12 season. 
  • Earlier, I thought Ryan Anderson wouldn't be eligible to be traded until January 15th, since the Magic, who technically signed him as part of the sign-and-trade that sent him to the Hornets, were over the cap. However, Grantland's Zach Lowe confirmed that he's eligible as of today, because the Hornets were under the cap when the deal went down. 

Larry Coon's NBA Salary Cap FAQ was used in the creation of this post.

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Important NBA In-Season Dates

December 10th, 2012 at 2:17pm CST by Luke Adams

Back in May, we looked ahead to the noteworthy dates on the NBA calendar that were coming up over the summer. Now that the 2012/13 regular season is in full swing, there's a new set of in-season dates worth keeping an eye on. Here's a breakdown:

December

  • 15: Most players that signed new contracts this offseason (on or before September 15th) can be traded.

January

  • 7: Teams can begin signing players to 10-day contracts.
  • 10: Players on non-guaranteed contracts have their contracts guaranteed for the remainder of the season. Players must clear waivers by this date to avoid having their deals guaranteed.
  • 15: Players with Bird or Early Bird rights that re-signed with their own over-the-cap team (on or before October 15th) and received at least at 20% raise can be traded. For instance, Brook Lopez would be eligible to be dealt as of January 15th, rather than December 15th.
  • 15: Last day teams can apply for disabled player exceptions.

February

  • 21: Trade deadline.

March

  • 1: Players released after this date are ineligible for the postseason if they sign with a new team.
  • 10: Disabled player exceptions expire.

April

  • 17: Last day of regular season. Last day players can sign contracts for 2012/13. Luxury tax figures are determined using team salary on this day.

Larry Coon's CBA FAQ was used in the creation of this post.

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