Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Via Ben Q. Rock of Orlando Pinstriped Post: The Orlando Magic officially lost Matt Barnes to free-agency [on Thursday night], as the journeyman signed with the L.A. Lakers just after 11 PM on the East Coast. Magic fans have had a few days to prepare for losing Barnes, whom they …
Tag Archive: Matt Barnes
Jul 23
Friday’s Magic Word
Tania Ganguli of the Orlando Sentinel: “It’s unlikely Matt Barnes will actually kill you … probably. But the idea sure made for some funny T-Shirts. Little else needs to be said about Barnes’ impact on the basketball court than the fact that those T-shirts, complete with a menacing picture of his face, exist. Barnes was the …
Jul 22
Source: Los Angeles Lakers to Sign Matt Barnes to Two Year, $3.6 Million Contract
Photo by Harry How/Getty Images Via Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports: Free-agent forward Matt Barnes has signed a two-year, $3.6 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. The Lakers announced Thursday night Barnes had officially signed the contract. League sources said the deal will pay him $1.7 million next season …
Jul 22
Thursday’s Magic Word
Adly Santiago of OrlandoMagic.com: “During the offseason many basketball players go on vacation to rest from a grueling regular season. Others spend time working with their charities, while a select few are able to juggle that responsibility along with conducting basketball camps. One of those players is Vince Carter, an eight-time All-Star, Olympic Gold Medalist …
Jul 21
Wednesday’s Magic Word
Ben Q. Rock of Orlando Pinstriped Post: Finding am empirical way to evaluate NBA team chemistry may seem an impossible task, but Numeranda may be onto something with its latest post (via Basketball Reference, whose own post on the subject brought this one to my attention) using Adjusted Plus-Minus statistics to evaluate the “chemistry” of a given five-man …
Jul 21
Matt Barnes is Still Looking for a New Home
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Via Marc Stein of ESPN.com: Five teams remain in the running to sign free-agent swingman Matt Barnes, according to sources with knowledge of Barnes’ thinking. Toronto is still one of those teams, sources told ESPN.com, despite the collapse of a sign-and-trade deal with Orlando that Barnes thought would be completed by …
Jul 20
Tuesday’s Magic Word
Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel: “For the moment at least, Matt Barnes remains a free agent. As we’ve noted before, the Orlando Magic and the Toronto Raptors cannot execute a sign-and-trade deal that would pay Barnes a first-year salary anywhere close to $4.5 million. On their own, the Raptors don’t have the cap room and no …
Jul 19
Matt Barnes’ New Contract Agreement Hits a Snag
Photo by Elsa/Getty Images UPDATE via Marc Stein of ESPN.com: Under the impression that he would be receiving a two-year contract in the $10 million range, [Matt] Barnes thanked [Orlando] Magic fans via his Twitter feed and said that he’ll be “playing for the Toronto Raptors” next season. [...] Yet no such deal could be …