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| Report: Clippers set to match Heat's offer to Brand |
NBA Basketball |
07/18/2003 |
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| Los Angeles, CA (Best E Casino) - The Los Angeles Clippers notified the agent of All-Star forward Elton Brand that they intend to match the Miami Heat's six-year, $82.2-million offer sheet. The Los Angeles Times reports that Brand will be returning to the Clippers for a third season. Last year, the 24-year-old forward led the Clippers with an average of 18.5 points per game and 11.3 rebounds per contest. The Heat offered Brand the maximum an outside team can offer a restricted free agent earlier this we |
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| Heat sign Brand to offer sheet |
NBA Basketball |
07/16/2003 |
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| Miami, FL (Best E Casino) - The Miami Heat have signed All-Star forward Elton Brand to an offer sheet. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the deal has been reported to be worth $82.2 million over six years -- the maximum an outside team can offer a restricted free agent. The Los Angeles Clippers, Brand's team for the past two seasons, now have 15 days to match the offer or the restricted free agent will become a member of the Heat. However, a report in the Orlando Sun-Sentinel claimed that Cl |
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| Maggette to Utah? |
NBA Basketball |
07/16/2003 |
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| ise cornerstones John Stockton and Karl Malone, have announced that Los Angeles Clippers swingman Corey Maggette signed an offer sheet with the team on Wednesday. The Clippers, already saddled with the prospect of matching a potential offer from the Miami Heat for restricted free agent forward Elton Brand, would have 15 days to equal Utah's offer for Maggette, also a restricted free agent. The Jazz offer is for six years and an undisclosed amount of money. Last season, the 6-foot-6 Maggette averaged 16.8 |
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| Branded: Heat tempting Clippers star |
NBA Basketball |
07/16/2003 |
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| Miami, FL (Best E Casino) - On the first day teams are allowed to sign free agents, the Miami Heat have apparently made a different kind of splash. According to the Orlando Sun-Sentinel, Miami will extend Los Angeles Clippers star forward Elton Brand an offer Wednesday that could be as lucrative as $82.2 million over six years -- the maximum an outside team can offer a restricted free agent. The Clippers would have 15 days to match the Heat offer, but according to the paper, it was constructed to be una |
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| Nets add veteran Mourning |
NBA Basketball |
07/16/2003 |
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| s Wednesday. It's a four-year contract worth a reported $20 million. The 33-year-old Mourning was cleared to play in May after a physical examination and became a free agent on July 1 when the seven-year, $105 million contract he had signed with the Miami Heat expired. A 10-year veteran, Mourning did not play in the NBA in 2002-03 as he was advised by doctors in September to skip the season because test results indicated that his kidney condition had worsened. Mourning was originally diagnosed in October |
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| Magic sign Howard |
NBA Basketball |
07/16/2003 |
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| 96, Howard had an interesting experience with free agency. After deciding to leave the Washington Bullets, whose franchise was renamed the Washington Wizards for the 1997-98 season, and test the free agent market, he signed a lucrative deal with the Miami Heat. However, the contract was disallowed by the NBA. Howard then re-signed with Washington for seven years and $105 million. Originally selected out of Michigan by the Bullets in the first round of the 1994 NBA Draft (fifth overall), Howard was traded |
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| Report: Juwan Howard headed to Orlando |
NBA Basketball |
07/14/2003 |
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| 96, Howard had an interesting experience with free agency. After deciding to leave the Washington Bullets, whose franchise was renamed the Washington Wizards for the 1997-98 season, and test the free agent market, he signed a lucrative deal with the Miami Heat. However, the contract was disallowed by the NBA. Howard then re-signed with Washington for seven years and $105 million. Originally selected out of Michigan by the Washington Bullets, in the first round of the 1994 NBA Draft (fifth overall), Howard |
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| Mourning headed to New Jersey |
NBA Basketball |
07/11/2003 |
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| dly for four years. The 33-year-old Mourning, who was cleared to play in May after a physical examination by Dr. Victor Richards, his Miami nephrologist, became a free agent on July 1 when the seven-year, $105 million contract he had signed with the Miami Heat expired. A 10-year veteran, Mourning did not play in the NBA in 2002-03 as he was informed by doctors in September to skip the season because test results indicated that his kidney condition had gotten worse. Mourning was originally diagnosed in Oct |
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| Report: Payton will be a Laker |
NBA Basketball |
07/08/2003 |
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| between Milwaukee and Seattle, joining the Bucks along with Desmond Mason in a February deal that sent Ray Allen, Kevin Ollie, Ronald Murray and a first-round pick to the SuperSonics. Payton, who was also interested in the Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat, averaged 19.6 points and 7.8 assists in his 28 games for Milwaukee and helped the Bucks make the playoffs, where they were beaten in six games by the New Jersey Nets in the opening round. The Bucks had two top-notch point guards at the end of last |
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| Hornets hire Gentry |
NBA Basketball |
06/30/2003 |
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| ced Monday that Alvin Gentry will join new head coach Tim Floyd’s staff as an assistant. Gentry was fired as head coach of the Clippers this past March after Los Angeles dropped 39 of its first 58 contests. In just under three campaigns as coach of the Clippers, he had a mark of 89-133. The 47-year-old Gentry has also had head coaching stints with the Miami Heat and Detroit Pistons, compiling an overall mark of 177-226. He joins Jan van Breda Kolff, Kenny Gattison and Jeff Bower as assistants to Floyd. |
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