By Anton Miller
The free agency sweepstakes isn’t completely over quite yet, but it’s pretty clear how some of the league’s most active teams have done so far.
Winners:
…Philadelphia 76ers: The Sixers are the biggest winners of this offseason, re-signing Andre Iguodala to a market value contract, and getting the biggest coup of the year by stealing Elton Brand. Brand fills a huge low post scoring weakness, and his defense and rebounding will make life easier for everyone else. He makes the Sixers a likely successor to the Boston Celtics Eastern conference crown, whenever injury or age cuts

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By la287 (or Aaron)
Team USA’s dissection of the Spanish team kind of puts this out of proportion, but consider it official: Thirty is going to be the new 50 for USA Basketball.
…Long gone are the days where the original Dream Team demolished teams by 50 point. The game was over after the first quarter. The opposing teams barely scored what the Dream Team scored in the first half, humiliated from start to end.
But over the past four years, Team USA has lost multiple games, settled for a Bronze medal in Athens, and is winning games by

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If I was the Spurs, I’d be really angry that a guy I pay an incredible amount of money continues to spend his summers playing in international competitions instead of resting and getting fully healthy for the NBA season.
Ginobili wasn’t fully healthy much of last season, especially in the playoffs. So what does he do [...]…

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The Boston Celtics announced today that they have signed 2008 second round draft pick Bill Walker. Per team policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Bill’s hard work and skill development this summer has given us the belief that he can be in our short-term plans as well as our long-term plans.” said Danny [...]…

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Jeff says: Finley, now at age 82, a full 23 years older than Greg Oden, is at the end of his career and I don’t think he should play more than a few minutes per quarter as a backup. That said, he’s probably still useful off the bench, plus his Spurs experience makes him more [...]…

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