From the Akron-Beacon Journal’s Jason Lloyd: Hudson gave the Cavs some minutes and some scoring while Kyrie Irving was out with an injury, but he didn’t exactly set the world on fire during his stint with the Cavaliers.
From Basketball Prospectus’ Kevin Pelton: Suns players have only missed 18 total games this season: Grant Hill has missed 12 games, Steve Nash has missed 4, and Markieff Morris and Jared Dudley have missed a game apiece.
From the NY Post’s Marc Berman: Woodson coached Bibby when the 33-year old Arizona product was in Atlanta, so he’s certainly familiar with Bibby’s game.
The NBA D-League made the following announcement today (h/t: iamagm.com) None of this should be surprising: teams are getting more and more comfortable using the D-League as a place to find players, the lockout-compressed season necessitated a need for more fresh legs and injury replacements, and players like Jeremy Lin are making teams realize that former D-Leaguers can turn into really, really effective players.
From ESPN Los Angeles’ Dave McMenamin: McMenamin reported that Bryant is no longer in a walking boot, and will have had a full week to rest his shin if he chooses to suit up for the Lakers’ next scheduled game against the Nuggets on Friday.
ESPN Dallas’ Tim McMahon and Marc Stein have the report: According to Stein and McMahon, Cuban had been one of Odom’s biggest supporters during his lousy season with the Mavericks, but it looks like he simply got fed up with Odom’s uneven and uninspired play.
From our friends at CollegeBasketballTalk: The 6-5 sophomore is currently projected as the 12th overall pick by DraftExpress, and ESPN.com’s Chad Ford has Lamb at the #12 spot on his NBA draft big board.
Here’s an interesting quote from Sam Vincent on Michael Jordan, via the Washington Post’s Rick Maese: This shouldn’t be particularly surprising news to anybody: many great ex-players who go into front-office careers after their playing days are over seem to rely on their instincts, while being a successful front office man in today’s NBA requires a grueling work schedule in order to keep up with prospect scouting, advanced scouting, new statistical tools, and hours and hours of film study on opposing players.
From the Los Angeles Clippers’ Madelyn Burke: Williams has averaged 13.6 points and 3.1 assists per game for the Clippers this season, but has missed the last 9 games for the team.
From NBA.com: LeBron’s big week helped him snap out of a quasi-slump: Before the April 3rd game against Philadelphia, LeBron had not scored 30 or more points in 9 straight games, and the Heat were 6-3 in those games.
Via NetsDaily’s Net Income: With Jordan Farmar declared out for the year last week, the Nets need some additional minutes at point guard, so they’re giving Johnson a shot.
Via ESPN.com’ s Justin Verrier: Clippers point guard Chris Paul, responding to Kings forward DeMarcus Cousins’ statement that Blake Griffin is an “actor” who gets “babied by the league.”
From Bright House Sports Network’s David Baumann: Shaw is a former NBA guard who was an assistant coach with the Lakers for 7 years, and hence has more experience with Tex Winter’s legendary triple-post offense than all but a few coaches out there.
From the AP: Here’s the Jazz’s dilemma: if the Warriors finish with one of the 7 worst records in the league this season, the Jazz get their 1st-round pick, which was included in last year’s Deron Williams trade.
From the AP: While forcing NBA players to attend an extra year in college is a nice enough theory, the actual merits of an increased age limit are questionable.
The ultra-reliable Marc Stein of ESPN.com has the report: Fisher would fill a need for the Thunder, who have been searching for a solution at the backup point guard spot ever since Eric Maynor went down for the season with a torn ACL injury -- rookie point guard Reggie Jackson has struggled badly for the Thunder, and is currently averaging just 3.5 points per game on 33.8% shooting from the field and 22.4% shooting from downtown.
From the Washington Post’s Michael Lee: Blatche was able to get a massive contract after putting up big scoring and rebounding totals after taking over Antawn Jamison’s starting spot at the end of the 2009-10 season, but that contract has looked worse every day since it was signed.
