Vegas chatter: Trades, restricted free agents and the Artest sweepstakes - NBA

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Dunleavy Likes the New Look Clippers
Published 7/17/2008 by mikey p at Clips Nation
Marc Stein spoke with Mike Dunleavy for his piece on ESPN.com , and asked him about the Brand/Maggette for Davis/Camby "trade". Coach Mike Dunleavy: "We've been able to get ourselves a big-time point guard, which is probably the toughest position in the league to attain," Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy said. "So on that basis alone, you'd probably say you have to do that deal." No question we were put into scramble mode by Elton leaving," Dunleavy said. "You jump on the sure thing for sure," Dunleavy continued, explaining ...

Stein: Clippers, RFAs, Artest
Published 7/18/2008 by Patrick Dorsey at The NBA Source
Marc Stein of ESPN.com has a nice column up with some interesting nuggets, opinions and bits of information. Here’s a quick summary, broken into three parts like the article is: LA Clippers Stein points out that LA basically traded Corey Maggette and Elton Brand for Baron Davis and Marcus Camby. That actually looks like a pretty good deal, even though they would just like it to be Maggette for Davis, with Brand staying on-board. Even though Marcus Camby isn’t the ideal man to go along with Chris Kaman, Stein still likes the deal because, 1)Getting Camby erases their problem of not having Brand, and was the first ...

Saturday Morning Links
Published 7/19/2008 by Toddy at Mavs Moneyball
... the past few days, I've been super busy.  Here some up-to-date links on the Mavs. First off, the big talk has been all about Ron Artest.  What started out on db.com as some inside scoop as to the Mavs looking at Artest, has been blown up all over the internet from SI.com (who pretty much ripped off Mike Fisher and David Lord without any giving them any credit, and they ARENT HAPPY about it either.) to hoopsworld.com and ESPN (via the sacbee.com) to a double take over at sactownroyalty.com here and ...