Caja Laboral won't extend Taquan Dean temporary contract, so the American guard will become a free agent. Dean was signed to play just in Euroleague after being released from Unicaja, and played 3 games with Baskonia team, averaging 0.7 points and 1.3 rebounds in 8.2 minutes per game.
SOURCE: Diario Vasco
American center Matthew Kiefer, recently released from CAI Zaragoza, was signed by another Spanish LEB Oro team, Servindustria Tarragona 2017. This is the second signing in the last days for Catalan squad, after inking guard Terrence Oglesby. Tarragona also recovered forward Lluís Jacas, who was loaned to CB Vila-seca in EBA league.
SOURCE: CB Tarragona
Tanzanian center Hasheem Thabeet is officially assigned to D-League franchise Dakota Wizards, as Memphis Grizzlies, his current team, have announced. Thabeet will try to improve his game, that have brought him to average just 2.5 points and 2.9 rebounds this season. Lester Hudson is expected to join Thabeet in Dakota Wizards soon.
SOURCE: Insidehoops
German team Walter Tigers Tübingen have announced the signing of guard Johannes Herber. Former Germany national team player will be back to basketball after serious injury in his cruciate ligament in 2007. 27-year-old player is expected to join the team in two or three weeks.
SOURCE: Walter Tigers
Montenegrin center Savo Djikanovic has left Trikala 2000 due to the huge financial problems of the Greek squad. Also forward Vassilis Simtsak threatened to leave the team, but was convinced not to. To replace Djikanovic, Trikala has signed Greek center Dimitris Marmarinos, a free agent since finishing last season in Lega A team Caserta.
SOURCES: Basketnet, Basketnet
Forward Chris Richard was re-acquired by D-League franchise Tulsa 66ers, after his brief stint with Chicago Bulls. The NBA team called up Richard from D-League for a 10-day contract, then extended, but finally waived him after the trades of John Salmons and Tyrus Thomas. Richard is back to the franchise that acquired him a month ago.
SOURCE: Our Sports Central
After a successful try-out with Vanoli Cremona, Alessandro Bencaster earned to be signed for the rest of the season by the Lega A squad. Last team Bencaster played for was Pavia, in LegaDue. This is the second signing of Cremona after hiring new coach Attilio Caja. Marko Milic was the first one.
SOURCE: Gruppo Triboldi Basket
Memphis Grizzlies are planning to assign center Hasheem Thabeet and guard Lester Hudson to the affiliated D-League franchise Dakota Wizards. If confirmed, Thabeet will become the highest drafted player to play in the D-League (second overal pick in 2009), being a contender for the inglorious honor of being one of the greatest draft busts in NBA history.
SOURCE: Ridiculous Upside
AUSTIN: Acquired guard Dominique Coleman (who has played this season for Belgian team Dexia Mons-Hainaut, Italian team Angelico Biella, and Maine Red Claws)
SIOUX FALLS: Traded forward Michael Joiner to Austin Toros in exchange of forward Justin Bowen.
ERIE: Re-acquired forward Kyle Goldcamp (recently waived BayHawks due to an injury) and waived recently signed guard Tychicus "Tyc" Snow.
SOURCES: Our Sports Central, Our Sports Central
Spanish LEB Oro team CAI Zaragoza and American center Matthew Kiefer have agreed to terminate the player's contract, who's now a free agent. Kiefer played last season for CB Vic, also in LEB Oro, and signed last summer for CAI. 26-year-old player averaged 5.8 points and 3.7 rebounds in 10 games.
SOURCE: Basket Zaragoza
Serbian guard Igor Rakocevic doesn't want to go to Unicaja. In his official Twitter, Rakocevic has denied categorically the rumors saying he will go loaned from Efes Pilsen to Spanish team. 31-year-old player had several bad experiences with Unicaja fans in his stint in Spain, and has Caja Laboral as his prefered team if he ever comes back to ACB league.
SOURCE: Twitter Igor Rakocevic
Japanese team Hamamatsu Phoenix signed English forward Dzaflo "Flo" Larkai, who recently left Everton Tigers in the British league. 28-year-old player already made his debut with the Japanese squad in the Japanese Basketball League, scoring 18 points against Saitama Broncos.
SOURCE: BJ Phoenix
Olympiakos guard James "Scoonie" Penn is thinking about retiring at the end of this season, to spend more time with his family. 33-year-old player was signed by the Greek team on early January, after a long career in teams like Red Star, Cibona, Efes Pilsen or Virtus Bologna.
SOURCE: Superbasket
LegaDue team Prima Veroli accepted releasing Albanian guard Franko Bushati, who was then signed as a free agent by rival squad Aget Imola for the end of the season. The 24-year-old player was averaging 2.9 points and 1.1 rebounds. His debut will be against his former team Veroli.
SOURCE: Solobasket.it
Bad luck for Dawan Robinson and for his new team, LegaDue squad Umana Reyer. American guard Dawan Robinson had to leave the team due to an injury in a toe, and will go back to the U.S. for fully recovering. Robinson also left his former team, Veroli, due to another injury in his hand.
SOURCE: Solobasket.it
After firing Tab Baldwin, Turkish team Kepez Belediyespor has made a couple of important changes. Kepez promoted assistant Aziz Behir as the new head coach to replace Baldwin, and signed American guard Marcus Hall, who was in Apoel Nicosia for a try-out before signing for Turkish squad.
SOURCE: Turkbasket
After Sani Becirovic, Uros Slokar and Matt Walsh, another important player from Union Olimpija has left the team. Forward Vladimir Golubovic broke his contract with Slovenian team, and it's now a free agent. Maccabi Tel Aviv expressed interest in Golubovic weeks ago.
SOURCE: Siol
Meridiano Alicante and Kyle Hill are close to part ways. American forward was a big disappointment for Spanish team, and his performances were lower than expected. Both parts have agreed that the best solution is to terminate the contract between them, and the announcement could be made soon.
SOURCE: La Verdad de Alicante
Spanish team CB Murcia and Lithuanian guard Tomas Delininkaitis have agreed to terminate the contract that linked both parts until the end of the season. The arrival of Shammond Williams to Murcia made inevitable to release a player in the current roster.
SOURCE: CB Murcia
Spanish LEB Oro team has signed Brazilian center Guilherme Gitterer. 24-year-old player comes from EBA team, Gandía, who have announced his retirement of the competition due to its financial situation. Palencia also announced the extension of Finnish forward Samuel Haanpää until the end of the season.
SOURCE: Palencia Basket
Unicaja board has approved to provide extra funds to get Serbian guard Igor Rakocevic, currently unhappy in Efes Pilsen, on loan. Rakocevic would replace suspended player Juan Dixon. 31-year-old player prefers to buy-out his contract, but would accept a loan to Unicaja.
SOURCE: La Opinión de Málaga
Cleveland Cavaliers have announced that forwards Darnell Jackson and Danny Green have been assigned to the D-League affiliated, Erie BayHawks. Jackson averaged 0.8 points and 0.8 rebounds in 23 games, while Green made 2.5 points in 13 gams for the Cavs this season.
SOURCE: NBA.com
Partizan has denied the existence of an agreement with FMP Zeleznik center Miroslav Radujica for the next year. Acording to Sports Director Dragan Todoric, the information wanted to desestabilize the team before the important game against Maroussi in Euroleague.
SOURCE: B92
After signing Shammond Williams, CB Murcia could be forced to release a player, and the chosen one would be Lithuanian guard Tomas Delininkaitis, who won't play next Murcia game in ACB league. Delininkaitis is averaging 7.6 points and 1.9 rebounds in 22 games played this season.
SOURCES: La Verdad de Murcia, Krepsinis
Utah Jazz are looking for a replacement for recently traded to Memphis Ronnie Brewer. The Salt Lake City franchise wants a veteran to complete the roster, and it's interested in recently waived players Kenny Thomas, Larry Hughes, Brian Cardinal and Brian Cook, released center Zydrunas Ilgauskas, free agent Mikki Moore or D-League player Rob Kurz
SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
Lithuanian center Zydrunas Ilgauskas is already a free agent after agreeing with Washington Wizards the buy-out of his contract. Ilgauskas was traded days ago from Cleveland Cavaliers. Through 35-year-old player has expressed his desire of being back to Cleveland, other teams like Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets, Dallas Mavericks and Utah Jazz are also interested in Ilgauskas.
SOURCE: NBA Fanhouse
Real Madrid could be interested in signing Manu Ginóbili. The Argentinian forward will be a free agent this summer, and won't continue in San Antonio Spurs next season. Before his American, successful stint (with three NBA Championship won), Ginóbili played for Kinder Bologna in Italy, with Ettore Messina, now in Real Madrid, as the coach.
SOURCE: Piratas del Basket
Top European teams are starting planning next season, and Partizan is not an exception. While assuming that Aleks Maric could leave to a more powerful team, the Serbian squad wants to sign one of the top prospects in the Adriatic League: Miroslav Raduljica. According to Serbian media "Novosti", Raduljica has agreed with Partizan to land in the Pyonir next season, after finishing his contract with FMP Zeleznik this summer.
SOURCE: Novosti
D-League franchise Rio Grande Valley Vipers will fill the void left by recently called up Antonio Anderson, new Oklahoma City Thunder player, with forward Sean Barnette. Rookie player started the season with Iowa Energy, averaging 7.0 points and 2.6 rebounds in 25 games.
SOURCE: Our Sports Central
As expected, Oklahoma City Thunder signed for 10-day contract guard Antonio Anderson, who was called up from D-League franchise Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Anderson averaged 15.5 points, 5.9 assists and 4 rebounds in 39 games played with the Vipers. Thunder also waived veteran forward Matt Harpring, acquired months ago from Utah Jazz via trade, who's seriously injured and could announce his retirement soon.
SOURCE: NBA.com
Krka has signed guard Nikola Ivanovic, who was playing for the last two moths with Hopsi Polzela and averaging 7.8 points per game in 8 games. His replacement in Polzela will be Matej Venta, who curiously was playing for Krka before being released by Novo Mesto club in January.
SOURCE: Kosarka
Just a few days after being released by Brose Baskets Bamberg, American forward Eric Taylor has found a new team. Düsseldorf Giants, also from the German league, signed Taylor hoping to add an important piece to avoid relegation. Giants also waived forward Logan Kosmalski.
SOURCE: Beko BBL
Time for changes in Helios Domzale. After finding a new coach, Ivan Sunara, to replace Rado Trifunovic, now Slovenian team has signed American guard Richard Shields to fill the void left by Domen Lorbek, now a Lagun Aro GBC player. Shields started the season in Greek team Kavala.
SOURCE: Sportal
Latvian team Ventspils signed Croatian center Mateo Kedzo, who started the season in Turkish squad Aliaga. Kedzo could not be the only Croatian player to sign for Ventspils. Guard Vedran Princ, who left Cibona a month ago, is the next player Latvian team wants to add to the roster.
SOURCE: Kosarka
Washington Wizards signed forward Mike Harris for a 10-day contract, as the replacement of recently acquired and injured Josh Howard. Harris was called up by the Wizards from Rio Grande Valley Vipers, in the D-League. This will be the second stint of Harris this season in the NBA, after playing 2 games with the Rockets before being waived.
SOURCE: NBA.com
Guard Von Wafer is officially a new member of the Dallas Mavericks. The NBA franchise signed Wafer to a 10-day contract, after a brief and successful try-out. Wafer is back to the NBA after moving to Olympiakos last summer. His experience with the Greek team ended a couple of months ago, and was a free agent since then.
SOURCE: ESPN
American guard Marque Perry will be the replacement of Mike Chatman, currently suspended after testing positive in an anti-doping control for cannabis, in Besiktas. Turkish team signed Perry for the rest of the season. Perry was a free agent since being released by Ukrainian team BC Donetsk after the club bankrupt, and was under the radar of Hemofarm in the last days
SOURCE: Basketbol Haber
Movements in Spanish LEB Oro team Servindustria Tarragona 2017. Guards Tarick Johnson and Xavi López part ways with Catalan club. López will play for LEB Plata team CB L'Hospitalet, while the destiny of Johnson is still unknown. Tarragona also signed Terrence Oglesby, an American guard who has played this season for Italian team Martos Napoli and Ukrainian MBC Mykolaiv.
SOURCES: CB Tarragona, CB Tarragona
Aris Thessaloniki have officially announced that Matt Walsh will play for the Greek team until the end of the season. American guard was suspended from his former team Union Olimpija, after leaving Ljubljana to discuss his transfer to Aris without permision of Slovenian club.
SOURCE: BC Aris
Jermaine Taylor is back to the Rockets after being recalled by Houston from D-League affiliated team Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Rookie guard played two games for the Vipers after being assigned there, averaging 15.5 points in 4.5 rebounds. In his first stint in the D-League, Taylor averaged 19.7 points and 4.2 rebounds in 6 games before being recalled by the Rockets for the first time.
SOURCE: Our Sports Central
Brazilian center Tiago Splitter is one of the best players in Europe right now, and Ettore Messina wants him to play for Real Madrid next season. Splitter is currently playing for Caja Laboral, and is also rumored to leave Spain to sign for San Antonio Spurs, the NBA franchise which own his rights.
SOURCE: Noticias de Álava
British-American center Randall Hanke is the new player of Spanish LEB Oro team Socas Canarias. 25-year-old player was since last January with Scottish team Glasgow Rocks, after failing to enter in Spanish Ford Burgos and Greek Panionios rosters.
SOURCE: CB Canarias
New York Knicks are planning to buy-out center Eddy Curry's contract, to make salary cap room this summer. Curry is not an important piece of Mike D'Antoni rotaton, and could end his Knicks career soon. This movement would make New York to save between $1 and $2 million.
SOURCE: New York Post
As expected, Sacramento Kings have announced that guard Larry Hughes, recently acquired in a three-way trade from New York Knicks, was waived. Hughes is recovering from a hand injury in the East Coast. Charlotte Bobcats could be interested in Hughes, and also in Mike James, who wants to leave Washington Wizards.
SOURCES: Insidehoops, Charlotte Observer
Rouen has signed a replacement for Aerick Sanders, who will be out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury. French team signed Nigerian center Deji Akindele, back to the LNB after playing for Pau-Orthez in 2007-08 season. Last season, Akindele played for Scavolini, in Italia, and haven't played any official game this one because of right meniscus problem. Xacobeo Blu:Sens was rumoured to bring him back weeks ago, but they finally chose to sign Jeremiah Massey.
Limoges have found a replacement for recently released guard Brent Darby. The French team signed American guard Kevin Braswell for the rest of the season. Braswell played until the last week for New Zealand Breakers, in the Australian NBL. The next goal for Limoges is to sign veteran center Frederic Weis, already training with the team.
SOURCE: Le Populaire
Veteran center Mikki Moore, a free agent after being released by the Warriors due to an injury, is fully recovered, and ready to go back to action. Denver Nuggets, looking for a reserve center, could be interested in signing 34-year-old for the rest of the Regular Season and the play-offs
SOURCE: NBA Fanhouse
Von Wafer is close to be back to the NBA. Dallas Mavericks will sign American guard to a 10-day contract, after passing successfully his try-out. Wafer was a free agent after being released by Greek team Olympiakos. At the same time, Dallas is looking for a center. After deciding not to keep Austin toros player Dwayne Jones after a try-out, the next possibilty could be free agent Jake Voskuhl, who played for the Mavs in the preseason.
SOURCE: Dallas News
Drazen Anzulovic will discuss today with Polish Basketball Federation leaders his signing as the new Poland national team coach. 42-year-old former Cibona player is without a team after the failure of the last coach he coached, BC Donetsk. Anzulovic has also coached teams like Cibona, Zagreb, Ural Great and Spirou Charleroi.
SOURCE: Kosarka
While the buy-out from Washington Wizards is expected from Monday or Tuesday, three teams are reported to be interested in Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks. Veteran center wants to sign back with Cleveland, but sources say that NBA won't allow Ilgauskas comeback to Cavs. Ilgauskas was traded to Washington days ago.
SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer
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