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November 6th, 2012 at 2:18pm 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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2012/13 Regular Season Roster Counts

November 4th, 2012 at 10:47am CST by Chuck Myron

We've been keeping up with the number of players on each team's roster during preseason, with separate posts for the East and West. As we move into the regular season, the numbers won't be moving quite so quickly, without the comings and goings of training camp invitees. Nonetheless, we'll consolidate the roster counts into a single post, with some updates and added information. This gives you an idea of a team's flexibility at a glance, so you can see whether a team has room to add one of the remaining free agents on the market without having to waive someone.

The total number of players on each team's roster is listed first, followed by the number of fully guaranteed contracts and, where applicable, the names of anyone on a partially guaranteed deal. For players on non-guaranteed contracts and details on the amounts of the partial guarantees, check out this post. If you notice any omissions, please let us know.

Updated 4-17-13

Atlantic Division
Celtics: 15
Knicks: 15
Nets: 15
Raptors: 15
Sixers: 15

Southeast Division
Bobcats: 15
Hawks: 15
Heat: 15
Magic: 14
Wizards: 15

Central Division
Bucks: 15
Bulls: 15
Cavaliers: 15
Pacers: 15
Pistons: 14

Southwest Division
Grizzlies: 15
Hornets: 15
Mavericks: 15
Rockets: 15
Spurs: 15

Northwest Division
Jazz: 15
Nuggets: 15
Thunder: 15
Timberwolves: 15
Trail Blazers:15

Pacific Division
Clippers: 15
Kings: 14
Lakers: 15
Suns: 15
Warriors: 15

ShamSports was used in the creation of this post.

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Undrafted Rookies On Opening-Night Rosters

November 3rd, 2012 at 2:38pm CST by Chuck Myron

A host of rookies are making their debuts this week, including several who not long ago seemed unlikely to do so. First-round picks are usually locks to make their teams, but second-rounders face a struggle, and undrafted players have the most daunting challenge of all, having to scrap just for training camp invitations, much less regular-season roster spots.

Several of the players on this list spent years developing overseas after they were passed over in their respective drafts, but a few who were left on the draft board this June managed to quickly overcome the snub and make it to the league for opening night. Many of them are on non-guaranteed deals, so their stays might not be permanent, but for now, they've made it to the big time. 

The undrafted rookies are listed below by team, with their draft years in parentheses. 

  • Sixers: Maalik Wayns (2012)
  • Hornets: Brian Roberts (2008)
  • Knicks: Chris Copeland (2006), Pablo Prigioni (1999)
  • Magic: DeQuan Jones (2012)
  • Nets: Mirza Teletovic (2007)
  • Pacers: Ben Hansbrough (2011)
  • Pistons: Slava Kravstov (2009)
  • Rockets: Scott Machado (2012)
  • Suns: Diante Garrett (2011), Luke Zeller (2009)
  • Timberwolves: Alexey Shved (2010)
  • Warriors: Kent Bazemore (2012)
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$400MM+ Committed In Rookie Scale Extensions

November 2nd, 2012 at 1:42pm CST by Luke Adams

In the weeks leading up to Halloween's deadline for fourth-year extension-eligible players to ink new deals, the prevailing wisdom suggested that teams were increasingly reluctant to lock up their players prior to free agency. TNT's David Aldridge and Sean Deveney of the Sporting News were among those who wrote stories attempting to explain why we were seeing fewer and fewer rookie scale extensions.

When the dust settled after October 31st, however, it turned out that clubs weren't all that reluctant to extend their fourth-year players after all. Ty Lawson, James Harden, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, Jrue Holiday, and Taj Gibson signed extensions during the last two days of October, joining Blake Griffin and Serge Ibaka as players avoiding restricted 2013 free agency by re-upping this offseason. It's the first time that many players have finalized rookie scale extensions since 2008, when NBA teams committed about $372MM to eight contract extensions.

In 2012, the amount of money committed to extensions blew away that 2008 figure, exceeding $400MM. We don't know specific amounts of the summer extensions yet, so we can't nail down the exact amount that teams spent. But if we use the base salaries reported to date and assume that next year's maximum salary will stay the same as this year's (it will likely increase), 2012's eight extensions add up to more than $424MM in commitments.

Here's a breakdown of the rookie scale extensions that have been inked over the past five seasons:

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Declined 2013/14 Rookie Contract Options

November 1st, 2012 at 11:09am CST by Luke Adams

In addition to being the deadline for fourth-year players to extend their rookie scale contracts, October 31st also represented the last day that teams could exercise their players' third- and fourth-year options for the 2013/14 season.

For the most part, these options were exercised without much fanfare. The Cavaliers weren't about to turn down their third-year option for Kyrie Irving, for instance. However, not all of the 55 players with options had their contracts guaranteed for the '13/14 season. Some were waived by their current teams, making them unrestricted free agents immediately. Others simply had their options turned down, meaning they'll play out the year under contract and become free agents at season's end.

Here's the complete list of the players whose '13/14 options were not exercised, along with their teams and the salaries they would have earned:

For the complete list of 2013/14 option decisions, be sure to check out our tracker.

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Recap Of Players Signing Contract Extensions

November 1st, 2012 at 8:36am CST by Luke Adams

Beginning on July 1st, fourth-year players on rookie scale contracts were eligible to sign contract extensions with their respective teams and forgo the chance to hit restricted free agency next summer. Most of the players to sign new deals didn't do so until the October 31st deadline approached, which means we saw a flurry of activity yesterday.

Here's a recap of the extension-eligible fourth-year players that signed contract extensions this offseason, removing themselves from 2013's free agent market:

Here are the extension-eligible players that didn't sign new deals and will become free agents next summer:

(* Incentives could increase the value of the deal)

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2012 NBA Free Agent Tracker

October 31st, 2012 at 12:42pm CST by Luke Adams

If you haven't done so yet, be sure to check out Hoops Rumors' 2012 Free Agent Tracker. Using our tracker, you can quickly browse the offseason's contract agreements, sorting by team, position, contract length, total salary, and a handful of other variables.

For instance, if you want to see all the Celtics' summer signings, you can sort by team and find all of Boston's free agent additions listed here. If you're curious to see how many players signed five-year contracts, you can sort by contract length and bring up that list right here.

Contract amounts are based on what's been reported to date, and aren't necessarily fully guaranteed. This is especially true for players who signed summer contracts, most of whom were cut before earning their non-guaranteed salaries.

Now that the regular season is underway, we'll no longer be updating our Free Agent Tracker regularly, but it can still be accessed anytime on the right sidebar under "Hoops Rumors Features." All of the free agent contracts signed over the offseason can be found using the tracker. If you have any corrections, please let us know right here.

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2012/13 Hoops Rumors Writer Predictions

October 30th, 2012 at 11:12pm CST by Luke Adams

With the NBA's 2012/13 regular season just underway, Hoops Rumors' writing team has weighed in with predictions for the coming year. We've made our picks for the top eight seeds in each conference, the Conference and NBA Finals teams, and the winners of the league's major awards.

Click on the link below to see predictions from Luke Adams, Chuck Myron, Zach Links, Alex Lee, Ryan Raroque, Sean Highkin, Michael Pina, and Daniel Seco. And be sure to chime in below in the comments section with your own selections!

2012/13 Hoops Rumors Writer Predictions

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2011/12 Starters Who Are Out Of The League

October 24th, 2012 at 9:38pm CST by Chuck Myron

Full-time NBA starters are usually fixtures who at least wind up in a rotation the next season, if not the starting lineup. In a few cases, though, starters wind up out of the league entirely, either because of retirement or declining skills. That was the case for three players who were among those who met the starter criteria as defined by the CBA. For last year's lockout-shortened season, that meant players who started at least 33 games or played at least 1,610 minutes, pro-rated figures of the usual 41 starts and 2,000 minutes over an 82-game season. 

Here are the three starters from last season who are no longer in the league, and an explanation why.

  • Shelden Williams — Started 35 games for the Nets last season, but will spend this year playing in France after receiving interest from the Warriors over the summer.
  • Anthony Parker — Started 51 games for the Cavaliers last season before retiring. He now works as a scout for the Magic.
  • Derek Fisher — Started 43 games for the Lakers prior to his trade to the Rockets, who bought him out and allowed him to sign with the Thunder. He remains unsigned but continues to seek an NBA deal.
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League Eliminates Center From All-Star Ballot

October 24th, 2012 at 11:38am CST by Chuck Myron

WEDNESDAY, 11:38am: The NBA has officially announced that the center has been removed from All-Star balloting, according to a press release from the league. Fans will now be allowed to vote for two guards and three frontcourt players.

TUESDAY, 10:32pm: The NBA will formally announce Wednesday that it will no longer have fans vote for starting centers and forwards for the All-Star Game, and instead have them choose three frontcourt players from each conference, TNT's David Aldridge reports on NBA.com.The change will appear on this year's ballot, which will be released on November 13th.

The league is making the change at the recommendation of its revamped competition committee.

"It makes sense," said Stu Jackson, the NBA's vice president of basketball operations. "It made sense to our Competition Committee. Having a center is the only specific position that was singled out on the ballot. It just seemed a little outdated and didn't represent the way our game has evolved. By the same token, it also affords the same opportunity, if you have two good centers in a given year, pick 'em both. They both can be selected. Which is impossible right now."

With more teams taking a small-ball approach, traditional centers have become less of a factor in the game. The shifting dynamics have caused some ballot issues in recent years. Aldridge cites the case of Tim Duncan, who has been listed as a power forward despite playing center for the Spurs.

The selection of All-Star starters is a trivial matter in most cases, but it's one of the criteria used to determine the maximum salary for rookie-scale extensions in the new CBA. First-round picks who are voted to start the All-Star Game twice, named to two All-NBA teams, or win an MVP award in their first four seasons are eligible to receive 30% of the salary cap in their extensions, instead of 25%.

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