Warriors Sign James McAdoo To 10-Day Deal
MONDAY, 11:40am: The signing is official, the Warriors announced via press release.
SUNDAY, 12:16pm: James McAdoo has agreed to sign a 10-day deal with the Warriors, reports Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports (Twitter link). McAdoo was also offered a 10-day contract by the Grizzlies, but chose Golden State “because of their initial investment in his development and career,” according to his agent, Jim Tanner.
McAdoo was undrafted out of North Carolina last June, but played with Golden State’s summer league team and earned an invitation to training camp. He failed to make the regular season roster, but joined the team’s D-League affiliate in Santa Cruz after clearing waivers.
McAdoo was ranked sixth on the NBA D-League’s Prospect Watch. He averaged 17.7 points and 9.4 rebounds in 22 games with Santa Cruz.
Wolves Sign Raduljica To Second 10-Day Pact
MONDAY, 11:13pm: The deal is official, the team announced.
SUNDAY, 2:08pm: The Wolves have signed Miroslav Raduljica to a second 10-day contract, reports Shams Charania of RealGM (on Twitter), although there’s been no official announcement from the team yet. The big man from Serbia inked his first 10-day deal with Minnesota on January 8th, so he became a free agent when that contract expired at the end of Saturday.
It’s no surprise that the injury-riddled Wolves are electing to bring back Raduljica, since the club is without starting center Nikola Pekovic, and reserve big man Ronny Turiaf went down for the remainder of the season with an injury shortly before the team shipped him off to Philadelphia in the Corey Brewer trade.
Raduljica has appeared in three contests for Minnesota, tallying just 19 total minutes. His best game came against his former team, the Bucks, where he put up four points and nabbed a pair of rebounds in just eight and a half minutes on the floor. If the Wolves want to retain Raduljica after his second 10-day deal expires, they’ll need to ink him for the rest of the season since a player can only sign a pair of 10-day contracts for a team in a given season.
Bucks Ink Kenyon Martin To Second 10-Day Deal
The Bucks have signed Kenyon Martin to his second 10-day contract with the team, Milwaukee announced. The move is no surprise, since the Bucks are reportedly likely to keep the former No. 1 overall pick for the rest of the season. They can’t sign him to any more 10-day contracts once this one expires, so Milwaukee would have to ink him for the rest of the season if the team wants to extend his stay.
Martin appeared in three games for a total of 15 minutes during his first 10-day contract with the Bucks, which expired Sunday night. The Bucks had been dealing with multiple injuries in their frontcourt when they first began to go after the 37-year-old, and they waived guard Nate Wolters to open a roster spot for him. Power forward Ersan Ilyasova returned to the lineup for the same game in which point guard Kendall Marshall tore his ACL last week, but it appears the Bucks are content to keep Martin around rather than bolster their backcourt.
Milwaukee’s roster is once more at 15 players with the readdition of Martin, who’s a former teammate of coach Jason Kidd. The Bucks are about $7.2MM under the cap.
Celtics Waive Chris Douglas-Roberts
The Celtics have waived the recently acquired Chris Douglas-Roberts, the team announced, shortly after Boston president of basketball operations Danny Ainge broke the news to Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald (Twitter link). CD-R came to the C’s on Thursday in the trade that shipped Austin Rivers to the Clippers. Fellow Herald scribe Mark Murphy reported at the time of the deal that Boston was likely to cut ties with the 28-year-old swingman.
Douglas-Roberts signed with the Clippers last summer after a solid 2013/14 season with the then-Bobcats, with whom he shot a career-high 38.6% from beyond the three-point arc. The former University of Memphis standout failed to crack the regular rotation in Los Angeles, however, as he averaged a career-low 8.6 minutes per night playing for the Clippers. It was reported that chemistry issues led L.A. to cut ties with Douglas-Roberts, but the six-year veteran denies that he was a negative presence in the locker room.
Unless Douglas-Roberts is claimed off of waivers by another club, the Celtics will be on the hook to pay the remainder of the $915,243 that he’s owed by the team this season. Even though he’s set to make slightly more than that figure this year, the league covers the additional amount owed to veterans of more than two seasons on minimum salary deals. The Celtics roster now stands at 14 players, one short of the league maximum.
Spurs Waive Daye, Sign Green To 10-Day Deal
SUNDAY, 10:10am: The Spurs have officially signed Green to a 10-day contract, the team announced in a press release.
SATURDAY, 1:07pm: The Spurs have officially waived Daye, the team has announced.
11:10am: The Spurs will waive Austin Daye in order to clear a roster spot for JaMychal Green, who they will ink to a 10-day contract, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports (Twitter link). Green had also reportedly garnered interest from the Bulls, Knicks, and Grizzlies. San Antonio currently has the league maximum 15 players on its roster.
Green, 24, is averaging 23.0 points, 10.7 rebounds and 2.5 assists this season for the Austin Spurs, San Antonio’s D-League affiliate. The 6’9″ forward was in training camp with the Spurs, but was waived on October 25th as the team pared down its training camp roster.
The 26-year-old Daye has appeared in 26 games for the Spurs this season, including four as a starter. He has averaged 4.0 points, 2.3 rebounds and has a slash line of .351/.339/1.000. Daye is in the final year of his contract, and San Antonio will be on the hook for the remainder of his $1,063,384 salary that he is owed for the season, barring the unlikely event that another team claims him off waivers.
Kings Sign Quincy Miller To 10-Day Deal
10:30pm: The signing is official, according to the team’s twitter feed.
SATURDAY, 1:42pm: The Kings will sign Quincy Miller to a 10-day contract, Shams Charania of RealGM reports (Twitter link). With Sacramento’s current roster count sitting at 14 players, no corresponding roster move will be needed to add Miller. Multiple teams were reportedly interested in signing Miller, including the Clippers, Pacers, Hawks, Thunder, and Spurs.
Miller had been playing with the Reno Bighorns, Sacramento’s D-League affiliate. In 14 D-League appearances this season Miller had averaged an impressive 26.3 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 1.8 assists. He was shooting 52.2% from the field, and a solid 35.6% from three-point range.
The 22-year-old Miller was selected No. 38 overall in the 2012 NBA draft, and then spent two seasons with the Nuggets. Miller attended training camp with Denver this season, but was waived back in October. His career NBA averages are 4.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists. His slash line is .366/.316/.702.
The Kings have reportedly been seeking to add a stretch four as well as a wing defender, and have recently made rookie Nik Stauskas available in trade discussions. It’s unclear if signing Miller is related to this talk, seeing as he’s not necessarily known as a shut-down defender, and despite being 6’9″, Miller isn’t strong enough to guard most NBA power forwards.
Jazz Sign Elliot Williams To Second 10-Day Deal
The Jazz have signed Elliot Williams to a second 10-day contract, the team has announced. Williams and the team agreed to his first 10-day pact on January 7th. Teams can ink players to a maximum of two 10-day deals per season before they either have to let them go or sign them for the remainder of the season.
Williams had appeared in three games for Utah during his first 10-day deal, averaging 2.7 points and 0.7 rebounds in 8.7 minutes per contest. His slash line is .375/.500/.000. Williams is a former first round draft pick of the Trail Blazers, and was selected No.22 overall back in 2010.
Prior to joining the Jazz this season, Williams had appeared in 16 contests for Santa Cruz, Golden State’s D-League affiliate. The 25-year-old had notched 21.3 PPG, 4.7 RPG, and 7.7 APG in 37.2 minutes per game.
Knicks Sign Galloway To 2nd 10-Day Deal
SATURDAY, 11:19am: The Knicks have officially inked Galloway to a second 10-day deal, the team announced.
FRIDAY, 6:37pm: The Knicks are apparently pleased with what they have seen thus far from Langston Galloway. New York intends to ink the player to a second 10-day deal, Shams Charania of RealGM reports. Galloway was signed to his first 10-day pact on January 7th. Teams can sign players to a maximum of two 10-day deals each season.
The 23-year-old rookie is averaging 9.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 3.0 assists in 24.3 minutes per contest for the Knicks over four appearances. His shooting numbers are .361/.333/.800.
Galloway had previously appeared in 19 games for Westchester this season, averaging 16.5 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 2.4 assists while logging 36.8 minutes per contest. His slash line in the D-League this season was .447/.358/.830. The 6’2″ guard was with the Knicks during the preseason after going undrafted out of St. Joseph’s.
Sixers Sign Larry Drew II To 10-Day Contract
FRIDAY, 2:57pm: The deal is official, the team announced. The statement from the Sixers makes no mention of a corresponding move, so Philadelphia will carry 15 players plus Kirilenko on the Suspended List.
THURSDAY, 8:06am: The Sixers will sign former Heat camp invitee Larry Drew II to a 10-day contract, reports Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports. Philadelphia has 15 players, but the team won’t have to make a corresponding move to add Drew, since Andrei Kirilenko is on the Suspended List. Drew has been playing with Miami’s D-League affiliate.
The deal will give the 24-year-old point guard a chance to make his NBA regular season debut. He’s spent time with the Heat during the last two preseasons only to end up on waivers before opening night. This year’s preseason stint was only a five-day affair, as Miami signed him in late October, but his contract included a $25K partial guarantee, likely an enticement for Drew to join the Heat’s D-League team once he hit waivers. He’s averaged 11.0 points in 37.5 minutes per game while putting up an impressive 10.1 assists per contest to go with 40.4% three-point shooting in 21 appearances this season for the Sioux Falls Skyforce.
Drew remained free to sign with any NBA team even as he played for the Heat’s affiliate, and it appears the Sixers are snapping him up. The son of Cavs assistant coach Larry Drew, the former Bucks and Hawks head coach, is poised to become the first player the Sixers sign to a 10-day contract this year after they inked a league-high five players to 10-day deals in 2013/14, as our 10-Day Contract Tracker shows.
Clippers Waive Jordan Farmar In Buyout Deal
12:46pm: The Clippers have officially waived Farmar, the team announced. That leaves the team with 13 players on its roster.
12:08pm: There will be a buyout involved, Woike clarifies (on Twitter), so Farmar will apparently forfeit part of his salary.
11:43am: The team is set to waive Farmar today, Woike tweets. It’s unclear what sort of progress, if any, the sides were able to make on arranging a buyout deal as part of the release.
8:02pm: The Clippers and Farmar hope to reach an agreement on a buyout by this evening, Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports reports (Twitter link).
3:29pm: The Clips continue to work to see if they can trade Farmar, but the general feeling is that they’ll waive him by day’s end, according to Markazi (Twitter link).
3:15pm: The Clippers will waive Jordan Farmar, reports Marc Stein of ESPN.com (Twitter link). Dan Woike of the Orange County Register had reported a few minutes earlier that the Clips had planned to either trade or waive the point guard (Twitter link). They’d been trying to trade Farmar for a while, but his player option, worth more than $2.17MM for next season, made it too tough a task, according to Arash Markazi of ESPNLosAngeles.com (on Twitter).
The Kings reportedly had discussions about trading Ramon Sessions for Farmar, but it’s unclear if those talks involved the Clippers or if they were internal. Farmar is seeing a career-low 14.7 minutes per game this season and has apparently been dissatisfied with his limited role.
The Clippers have been carrying 15 players, including Dahntay Jones, who’s on a 10-day deal. They’re poised to give up two players and take back only Austin Rivers in a three-way trade with the Celtics and the Suns, so cutting Farmar would leave the team with two open roster spots, with another to come open at the end of Jones’ 10-day contract. The Clippers are reportedly interested in Nate Robinson, who’s agreed to a buyout with the Celtics.
Farmar’s salary of $2.077MM for this season would remain on the Clippers’ books, and count against the team’s hard cap, unless another team were to claim him off waivers, which seems unlikely. All contracts with player options contain a clause stating whether or not the player would receive the salary for the option year in the event he’s waived before he has a chance to exercise it. It’s unclear what Farmar’s deal stipulates in this regard, but if he’s to receive his salary for next year, it would count against the Clips’ books for 2015/16.