兩單NBA新聞(再見DARKO)

Hakkinen

CLEVELAND -- Cavaliers guard Larry Hughes is likely to miss the rest of the regular season after having surgery on Tuesday for the second time in six weeks on his broken right middle finger.

Hughes, the team's second-leading scorer, was supposed to miss six to eight weeks after having surgery Jan. 6. However, doctors concluded last week that the finger hadn't healed as quickly as the team had hoped. The team said he will now miss an additional eight to 10 weeks.

"If all goes well for him and all goes well for our team ... he could possibly be back and participate in the postseason," Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry said.

Hughes, who signed a five-year, $60 million contract in the offseason, averaged 16.2 points and 3.9 assists in 28 games for the Cavs before sitting out the Jan. 4 game against Milwaukee. Cleveland started the season 18-10 with Hughes and is 12-11 in his absence.

Hughes' second surgery was performed by Dr. Thomas J. Graham, chief of the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. Additional bone grafting was performed and one of the three screws inserted during the first surgery had to be tightened.

Hughes has had a variety of injuries in his NBA career, including a broken right thumb and left wrist, a sprained right ankle and a strained right shoulder. Before he broke his finger, he had missed 97 games in the last five seasons and hasn't played a complete season since 1999-2000.

Hughes' injury will be a factor in the team's decision-making as the trading deadline approaches Feb. 23, Ferry said.

Guard Sasha Pavlovic has struggled recently starting in Hughes' place, scoring just four points and committing four fouls in 18 minutes during Monday night's win against San Antonio.

However, guard Stephen Graham, recently signed to a 10-day contract, has played well off the bench and had eight points and five rebounds against the Spurs.

At 30-21, the Cavaliers have the third best record in the Eastern Conference. Ferry believes the team's current makeup is good enough for them to reach the postseason for the first time since 1998.

"I believe that this is a playoff team," Ferry said. "The guys in the locker room expect that as well."


冇左外圍防守能力強既曉士睇黎騎士都難有所作為 (本身都難架啦 )

[ 本帖最後由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-17  06:10 AM 編輯 ]

Hakkinen

wo things it now appears that these Detroit Pistons won't do: Win 70 games or continue the Darko Milicic experiment.

Darko Milicic
Forward-Center
Detroit Pistons

Profile
2006 SEASON STATISTICS
GM         PPG         RPG         APG         FG%         FT%
24         1.5         1.2         0.4         53.125         37.500

NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday night that the Pistons and Orlando Magic were close to completing a long-discussed trade that would relocate Milicic, 2003's No. 2 overall pick, to central Florida. The trade could be completed as early as Wednesday, sources said, with only one potential snag.

The sides, according to sources, are bartering over the extent of lottery protection Orlando would have on the first-round pick it has agreed to send Detroit along with center Kelvin Cato for Milicic and guard Carlos Arroyo.

It's thought Orlando is seeking to retain this year's first-round pick -- and convey its 2007 first-rounder to Detroit instead -- if the Magic's pick winds up in the top seven of the June draft. The deal would collapse if the sides can't come to a resolution -- with Detroit looking to reduce Orlando's level of protection by a few spots -- but it's clear the Pistons have made the decision to move Milicic before the Feb. 23 trading deadline after giving him a chance to earn a rotation spot under new coach Flip Saunders.

Milicic hasn't played much more for Saunders than he did for Larry Brown, unleashing a new wave of second-guesses on Detroit's decision to draft the Serbian 7-footer over Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade ... (狂想,如果PISTONS PICK左其中一個會點呢) even though the Pistons won the championship in Darko's rookie season and came within one game of a repeat title last season.

Yet, even if Milicic had established himself as a rotation regular under Saunders, it's doubtful the Pistons could have afforded to retain him beyond this summer. With Ben Wallace bound for free agency in July and Chauncey Billups expected to seek a lucrative contract extension before becoming a free agent in the summer of 2007, Detroit needs Cato's expiring contract ($8.6 million this season) to create the salary-cap space to re-sign both comfortably and keep together its vaunted starting lineup.

After Wallace and Billups re-sign, all five Pistons starters will possess contracts averaging at least $10 million per season -- an NBA rarity but a necessity for Pistons president Joe Dumars given the success and relative youth (Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace are both 31) of the group.

While Orlando continues to explore its Steve Francis trade options, this move would give Milicic a chance to play immediately alongside franchise forward Dwight Howard. It might also eventually give the Magic two highly touted but unproven European big men for its frontcourt rotation, with the Magic still hopeful they will have 2005 first-round pick Fran Vazquez (who controversially elected to play in Spain this season) in the near future.


SEE YOU DARKO

TinTin

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-14  08:30 PM 發表
wo things it now appears that these Detroit Pistons won't do: Win 70 games or continue the Darko Milicic experiment.

Darko Milicic
Forward-Center
Detroit Pistons

Profile
2006 SEASON STATIS ...

送走 Cato

送番比 rocket 得唔得

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:28 PM 發表
冇左外圍防守能力強既曉士睇黎騎士都難有所作為 (本身都難架啦 )

真係要大帝進化神(定係送佢一程)

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:30 PM 發表
SEE YOU DARKO

去拍mini Shaq

Hakkinen

原帖由 TinTin 於 2006-2-15  01:34 PM 發表


送走 Cato

送番比 rocket 得唔得

cato 去pistons 內線真係超強

Hakkinen

原帖由 Smithy 於 2006-2-15  01:34 PM 發表
真係要大帝進化神(定係送佢一程)

大帝要搵番自己既PIPPEN先得

Hakkinen

原帖由 Smithy 於 2006-2-15  01:35 PM 發表
去拍mini Shaq

I LOVE DARKO  

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:37 PM 發表

大帝要搵番自己既PIPPEN先得

SNOW

Hakkinen

原帖由 Smithy 於 2006-2-15  01:37 PM 發表
SNOW

有冇個年輕D 架唔該

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:37 PM 發表

I LOVE DARKO  

TRADE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR HIM

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:37 PM 發表

有冇個年輕D 架唔該

旨意DAMON既倒不如真係期望JAMES變神

Hakkinen

原帖由 Smithy 於 2006-2-15  01:38 PM 發表
TRADE IS THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR HIM

I LIKE HIS ROLE IN PISTONS
HE HAVE POTENTIAL

Hakkinen

原帖由 Smithy 於 2006-2-15  01:39 PM 發表
旨意DAMON既倒不如真係期望JAMES變神

TRADE唔TRADE到岩用既番黎
話時話大帝比起MJ,有樣好,就係有個好D 既中鋒 (澳洲牛 )

李喂凸

cato要收收身先
睇佢跳唔起既

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:41 PM 發表

I LIKE HIS ROLE IN PISTONS
HE HAVE POTENTIAL

MAY BE NOT THE TIME IN DETROIT
I THINK HE CAN AT LEAST ACHIEVE 15+8

Smithy

原帖由 Hakkinen 於 2006-2-15  01:41 PM 發表

TRADE唔TRADE到岩用既番黎
話時話大帝比起MJ,有樣好,就係有個好D 既中鋒 (澳洲牛 )

有邊個AVAILABLE
不過澳洲牛仲硬淨過伊古

AI3

Knicks trying to swing deal to get Francis from Magic
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2331008


Steve Francis+Stephon Marbury


Thomas

沙9

wages bill 幾時先爆

天才守門員

原帖由 AI3 於 2006-2-15  07:00 PM 發表
Knicks trying to swing deal to get Francis from Magic
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2331008


Steve Francis+Stephon Marbury


Thomas :icon ...

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