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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.
• 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.
• 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 Trade Candidate series has returned for the 2012/13 season, with Marcin Gortat and J.J. Redick among the latest trade candidates to be put under the microscope.
• On Thursdays at 4:00pm CT, I answer readers' questions in a live chat. 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 created, 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.
• 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 the money the Rockets owe to players no longer on the roster, listed the players who remain ineligible to be traded, and took an in-depth look at the SEEDS Academy and the development of basketball in Africa.

Forbes has unveiled its annual franchise valuations for all 30 NBA teams, with the Knicks and Lakers predictably topping the list. According to Forbes, both teams are worth more than $1 billion, the first NBA franchises to reach the 10-digit mark. Overall, the average NBA team is worth $509MM, up an impressive 30% from a year ago. Here's the complete list of Forbes' franchise values:

1. New York Knicks: $1.1 billion
2. Los Angeles Lakers: $1 billion
3. Chicago Bulls: $800MM
4. Boston Celtics: $730MM
5. Dallas Mavericks: $685MM
6. Miami Heat: $625MM
7. Houston Rockets: $568MM
8. Golden State Warriors: $555MM
9. Brooklyn Nets: $530MM
10. San Antonio Spurs: $527MM
11. Sacramento Kings: $525MM
12. Oklahoma City Thunder: $475MM
13. Phoenix Suns: $474MM
14. Orlando Magic: $470MM
15. Portland Trail Blazers: $457MM
16. Cleveland Cavaliers: $434MM
17. Utah Jazz: $432MM
18. Los Angeles Clippers: $430MM
19. Denver Nuggets: $427MM
20. Philadelphia 76ers: $418MM
21. Toronto Raptors: $405MM
22. Detroit Pistons: $400MM
23. Washington Wizards: $397MM
24. Indiana Pacers: $383MM
25. Memphis Grizzlies: $377MM
26. Minnesota Timberwolves: $364MM
27. New Orleans Hornets: $340MM
28. Atlanta Hawks: $316MM
29. Charlotte Bobcats: $315MM
30. Milwaukee Bucks: $312MM

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 Rudy Gay as trade winds swirl around him and the Grizzlies, you can visit this page. If you're interested in whether the Suns may consider dealing Marcin Gortat to your favorite team, all Gortat-related updates are located here.

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As Marc Stein of ESPN.com pointed out on Twitter today after the Suns announced that they've parted ways with Alvin Gentry, the Phoenix coach was one of eight NBA head coaches that entered the 2012/13 season on the final years of their respective contracts. With the help of Stein's Twitter feed, here's a look at how those eight coaches have fared this season:

• Tyrone Corbin (Jazz): Just as the regular season got underway, the Jazz officially exercised their 2013/14 option on Corbin, extending his contract by one year.
• Vinny Del Negro (Clippers): Off to a fantastic 31-9 start to the season with the Clippers, Del Negro is making a strong case for a contract extension, as Sam Amick of USA Today wrote last month.
• Larry Drew (Hawks): While Danny Ferry publicly threw his support behind Drew earlier this season, it wouldn't be a surprise to see the Hawks' new GM bring in his own guy for the job next season, particularly if Atlanta is one-and-done in the playoffs.
• Alvin Gentry (Suns): The Suns parted ways with Gentry earlier today.
• Lionel Hollins (Grizzlies): Like Drew in Atlanta, Hollins may become the victim of a changing of the guard in Memphis. New ownership and new front-office members are in place, and Hollins' recent criticisms of advanced metrics suggests he may not be on exactly the same page as the new group, which includes former ESPN.com scribe John Hollinger.
• Avery Johnson (Nets): The Nets fired Johnson last month, despite the team's 14-14 record. Although Brooklyn has been thriving under P.J. Carlesimo since the change, it still seemed a little premature at the time — in a Hoops Rumors poll, nearly 80% of respondents said the Nets shouldn't have let go of Johnson.
• Scott Skiles (Bucks): Skiles and the Bucks agreed to part ways earlier this month.
• Frank Vogel (Pacers): The Pacers, who are leading the Central Division despite having been without Danny Granger all season, extended Vogel's contract last Monday.

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Lakers guard Steve Nash believes his two new teammates, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard, can get on the right track sooner than later by playing hard and not necessarily worrying about game plans, writes ESPNLA.com's Dave McMenamin. 

• MercuryNews.com's Marcus Thompson writes that the Warriors want more aggression from their rookie, Harrison Barnes. 
• The Los Angeles Times' Ben Bolch writes about Lakers center Dwight Howard, and how despite his team's struggles, he remains an upbeat personality. 

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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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