Where is Brian Greene? I demand to see Brian Greene! SL Roster released.

"Knicks property:
Nate Robinson - 4th year, MVP of last year's summer league
Renaldo Balkman - 3rd year, coming off a disappointing sophomore season
Mardy Collins - 3rd year, suddenly buried deep among veteran guards
Wilson Chandler - 2nd year, coming off scary knee sprain after solid finish to season
Danilo Gallinari - Rookie, first look at the sixth overall pick in his North American pro debut

Interesting addition:
Von Wafer, 6-4 G (Portland/Denver last season) - Former Florida State guard originally a second-round pick of the Lakers in 2005 and has bounced around the NBA (Clippers, Nuggets and Trail Blazers) and NBDL ever since.

Others:
Dan Grunfeld, 6-5 G (Stanford) - played in Spain this past season
Antonio Graves 6-2 G (Pittsburgh) - played in CBA this past season
Marcus Hall 6-2 G (Colorado) - undrafted rookie
Delonte Holland 6-7 F (DePaul) - Chandler's college teammate played in Italy
Brandon Hunter 6-7 F (Ohio) - also played in Italy
Antoine Johnson 6-1 G (Albany) - from Berman's alma mater (d'oh!) and played in Turkey
Paul Miller 6-10 F/C (Wichita State) played in Poland and previous Knicks camp invitee
Anthony Roberson 6-2 G (Florida) - played in Israel
Zhang Songtao 6-11 C (China) - dude is listed at 212 lbs.

Here's the schedule. All games will be played at the Cox Pavillion at UNLV and will be televised on MSG Network. Note: the times are Pacific Zone.

Monday, July 14 vs Cleveland, 1 p.m.
Wednesday, July 16 vs. San Antonio, 1 p.m.
Friday, July 18 vs. Phoenix, 1 p.m.
Saturday, July 19 vs. Charlotte, 1 p.m.
Sunday, July 20 vs. Minnesota, 1 p.m."

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Interesting ommision:

Randolph Morris, a free agent. Anybody seen where he’s at? We heard about him working out in Boston, but I haven’t seen much else.

Posting and Toasting: Unabashed Knicks fanaticism with the occasional poop joke.

by Seth on Jul 9, 2008 5:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

what i know about the random players:

Dan Grunfeld is ernie grunfeld’s son.
Von Wafer is a gunner who played on the Nuggets and Blazers last year and was traded straight up from Taurean Green. I watched him once or twice during my quest last year to watch a shitload of garbage time minutes on League Pass, and saw him airball a three once, even though he seems to have a pretty good shot. Also, my KTO for him was “has two sons named “Communion” and “Nilla.” I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes the team – we have an open roster spot and he can play.
Anthony Roberson is a point who played with the Warriors two years ago, and got very limited minutes and I never saw him play that I can remember, even though he probably shared a lot of minutes with Matt Barnes – I didn’t have league pass then.
Paul Miller has blonde hair, and therefore should have tried out for the Pacers instead. He was cut in favor of Kelvin Cato a few years back.

The Son of Dippin.

by Barnesgasm on Jul 9, 2008 8:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Answers:

I think Randolph Morris is official gone. The reason the Celtics were working him out was because D’Antoni/Walsh renounced the rights to him, so he’s pretty much out there for anyone who wants him.

Barnes: We have 15 players on the roster right now. In salary order: Marbury, Randolph, Curry, Richardson, Crawford, Rose, James, Jeffries, Duhon, Danilo, Robinson, Lee, Balkman, Chandler, Collins.

The Knicks could buyout Marbury, creating a spot. Von Wafer – I did a NBA Player Profile on him last season! It was inspired by your comment in the KTO. In fact, my whole series of profiling scrubs was inspired by that one line… what a powerful joke that was.

Anyway, the things I remember are that Von Wafer is a three-point bomber, and that he played for a team called the Colorado 14ers. Which is still a team name that needs more explanation.

by stopmikelupica on Jul 9, 2008 9:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i'm not sure what i was thinking.

the knicks have 15 players. you are 100 percent correct. as a self-proclaimed expert in NBA roster minutiae, this mistake is a great embarrassment to me and my entire family.

The Son of Dippin.

by Barnesgasm on Jul 10, 2008 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

4 tidbits regarding the summer league

- I remember Anthony Roberson when he was on the Warriors, one game he scored 20+ so he started the next game and didn’t do as well. But he had a few good games like that, kinda a Von Wafer clone, who is a bit of a Nate clone, but he wouldn’t be horrible for us maybe.

- I really hope Mardy does well, I want him to stay on the team, especially because I don’t think he was really given a fair chance last year

- Nate should grow dreads….he just should

- Von Wafer’s full name sounds like the last name to Euro scrub that got two 10-day contracts for the Spurs in the mid-90’s. Does anybody remember last SL when he dropped like 45 points on the Knicks team even though the Knicks won.

The Four-Point Play, read it bitches

by Arichmix on Jul 10, 2008 12:25 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs