Lose je to sto se sire po Engleskoj i Francuskoj a mi iz kosarkaskih zemalja (exYu, Litvanija, Grcka, Rusija) cemo da ih gledamo kako pikaju medjusobno u jedinoj hali u Londonu u kojoj se jednom godisnje odigra basket.

A sta to sprecava zemlje koje si naveo da pozovu te iste timove da igraju ?   

Sigurno ce da dodju. A i to sve ide preko NBA lajva sa EL a Bartomeu je idot.
Jel' su kukali pred Dajmond bol da im smeta stub na sred sale za pres? NAsli bi milion i jedan razlog da ne dodju.

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Bulls sign G Keith Bogans

CHICAGO (AP)—The Chicago Bulls have signed free agent swingman Keith Bogans(notes).

Terms were not disclosed Wednesday, though a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press last week that the deal is guaranteed for one year with a team option for a second.

The 6-foot-5 swingman spent last season in San Antonio, where he averaged 4.4 points in 79 games. Bogans becomes the latest addition to a team that has signed Carlos Boozer(notes), Kyle Korver(notes) and Ronnie Brewer(notes) this summer.

Bogans is a seven-year NBA veteran out of Kentucky.

(Yahoo)

Raptors acquire F Wright from Hornets

TORONTO (AP)—The Toronto Raptors have acquired forward Julian Wright(notes)  from the New Orleans Hornets  in exchange for guard Marco Belinelli(notes).

The 6-foot-8, 225-pound Wright averaged 8.1 points and 4.6 rebounds in 68 games with New Orleans last season.

“This move should help balance the roster and alleviate some of the redundancy we have with our guards,” Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo said in a release Wednesday. “Julian is another young athletic player that will add depth at the small forward position.”

Wright was the 13th pick in the 2007 NBA draft and has averaged 4.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in 179 career games.

Belinelli, acquired from Golden State last summer, averaged 7.1 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 66 games with the Raptors.

(Yahoo)

Wright’s ex-wife says he left her house with drugs

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)—The ex-wife of slain former NBA player Lorenzen Wright(notes) told police she saw him leave her home carrying money and a box of drugs the night he disappeared, according to court documents obtained Wednesday.

Sherra Wright said her ex-husband left her home at 10:30 p.m. on July 18 with the drugs, returned a short time later, then left again with an unspecified amount of money, said an affidavit for a search warrant by Memphis police Sgt. W.D. Merritt.

Before he left, Sherra Wright said she overheard her ex-husband on the telephone telling someone that he was going to “flip something for $110,000,” the document said.

Sherra Wright said Lorenzen Wright left her home in a car with a person she said she could not identify. Hours later, police dispatchers received a 911 call from Wright’s cell phone and heard noises like gunshots before the call was dropped.

Wright’s body was found July 28 in woods outside Memphis. The 34-year-old had been missing for 10 days. No arrests have been made in the homicide and Memphis police will not discuss whether they have a motive or suspects in the shooting death.

The affidavit said Sherra Wright gave the statements to police in the Memphis suburb of Collierville, where she lives, on July 27—five days after the former University of Memphis basketball star’s mother filed a missing person report.

Sherra Wright also told police that her ex-husband owned a shotgun that he kept at her home and a handgun he kept inside the family van. A search of the home and the van failed to turn up the weapons, the affidavit said.

Police did find shell casings of different caliber bullets at the scene where Wright was shot, but they could not find Wright’s cell phone.

The affidavit said police were going to use documents showing ownership of the two weapons to see if they match the bullet shell casings recovered at the crime scene.

Wright, a 6-foot-11 forward-center, played with five teams during his 13-year NBA career. He averaged 8 points and 6.4 rebounds in 778 career NBA games.

(Yahoo)

Sixers hire Thorn as president

Rod Thorn has reached an agreement to become the new president of the Philadelphia 76ers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

A formal announcement will come on Thursday.

Thorn will move into the organization over general manager Ed Stefanski, a close friend who worked with Thorn for six seasons with the New Jersey Nets. The embattled Stefanski will stay on under Thorn, keeping with a similar arrangement they had with the Nets.

After a decade as Nets president, Thorn left the organization last month after deciding against staying on to work for the new Russian ownership group. Nevertheless, he still expressed a desire to work again in the league and now takes over the 76ers.

Thorn took over the Nets when they were considered perhaps the NBA’s worst franchise, and elevated them to the NBA Finals in his second season (2002) on the job. His trade for Jason Kidd transformed the Nets into Eastern Conference contenders and pushed them to consecutive NBA Finals appearances. New Jersey reached the playoffs six straight seasons until previous ownership forced them to dump salaries.

After Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov bought the Nets, Thorn never seemed comfortable with the owner’s reluctance to commit to a long-term deal with him and he decided against taking a shorter contract.

“The real story is it’s time,” Thorn said upon his Nets departure. “I got along great with Mr. Prokhorov and his people, no problem with any of them. I like his forecast for what he wants to do. It’s just time. I have been thinking about it for a couple of years and I just think it’s time. Sometimes you go along and your time just runs out. To me, I felt my time was up here.”

(Yahoo)

Musselman getting another chance to coach

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Eric Musselman is finally getting another chance to coach: in the NBA’s Development League.

He has enjoyed some of his best coaching success in basketball’s minor leagues.

The former Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings head coach is set to be formally introduced by the Reno Bighorns in a news conference Thursday. The Reno team is affiliated with both the Kings and Warriors.

The 45-year-old Musselman just finished coaching the class of 2011 to-be college players at the Adidas Nations camp in Chicago and also the Dominican Republic national team. He also has been working in television in recent seasons, though he has expressed interest in returning to coaching. He shared the news of his new job in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

“I’m excited, glad to get back to coaching and back in the NBA family,” said Musselman, who owns a 108-138 career record in three NBA seasons.

The Kings fired Musselman in April 2007 after a 33-49 season. Musselman was arrested on a drunken-driving charge after Sacramento’s first preseason game in October 2006. He immediately issued a public apology, later pleaded no contest to the charge and served a two-game suspension in February.

He led the Warriors to two surprisingly successful seasons from 2002-04 as one of the game’s most impressive young coaching minds.

Golden State fired him after the franchise missed the playoffs for the 10th straight year in his second season at the helm. Golden State went 37-45 in his final season and he led the Warriors to 38 victories in his first year for the team’s best finish since 1994—the last time this team made the playoffs.

The Warriors have been to the postseason only once since them, advancing to the second round in 2007 under coach Don Nelson.

After being dismissed by the Warriors, Musselman spent two seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies as an assistant under Mike Fratello.

His first NBA coaching experience came with the Minnesota Timberwolves under his father in 1990-91. Musselman also worked as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks under Lon Kruger and as an assistant for the Orlando Magic under Chuck Daly and Doc Rivers.

Musselman went 270-122 during seven years as head coach of the Continental Basketball Association’s Florida Beach Dogs. From 1990 through 1997, Musselman had 24 players called up to the NBA, the highest number in the league during that span.

(Yahoo)

Pacers, Hornets, Nets and Rockets Agree to Four-Team, Five-Player Trade

A four-player, five-team trade—headlined by Trevor Ariza(notes)  and Darren Collison(notes)—has been agreed upon by the Pacers, Hornets, Nets and Rockets, according to multiple reports.

The deal, first reported by ESPN, breaks down as follows:

The Hornets acquire Rockets forward Trevor Ariza.

The Pacers acquire Hornets point guard Darren Collison and forward James Posey(notes).

The Nets add Pacers forward Troy Murphy(notes).

The Rockets land Nets guard Courtney Lee(notes).

Ariza, who signed a six-year, $35 million deal last summer gives the Hornets much-needed help on the wing and is likely a message to point guard Chris Paul(notes) that the team is willing to spend. The Rockets benefit from salary relief in dealing Ariza and adding the less expensive Lee.

The Hornets, who have desperately coveted a point guard for some time, add Collison to fill that role while taking on Posey’s deal, which runs through the 2011-12 season.

The Nets get a relatively large expiring deal in Murphy. He’ll earn roughly $12 million next season.

CBS Sports reports the deal is done pending league approval.

(Yahoo)