Last week’s edition of The Bernucca List was the toughest to date, with the post going an entire day before Ali Black was credited with the correct answer, which requires a minor clarification. Black’s answer was “players with a higher scoring average than their father.” Technically, Ronnie Brewer does not (yet) have a higher scoring average than his father, Ron. Hat tip to Steve Lardner for pointing that out. Specifically, I was looking for “players better than their fathers,” which Ronnie Brewer
Bernucca: Spurs must man up without Manu
In recent years, we have gotten extended looks at the San Antonio Spurs without Manu Ginobili. And what we have seen is a contender reduced to a pretender. In 2009, Ginobili suffered an ankle injury in early April that cost him the final six games of the regular season and the postseason, which ended abruptly with a five-game exit vs. Dallas. As my colleague Jan Hubbard pointed out some time ago, the Spurs were the best regular-season team in the NBA last
Bernucca column: “Derrick Rose Rule” lets fans hold the purse strings
Unlike Allan Houston and the “Allan Houston Rule,” it was fitting that Derrick Rose was the first player to benefit from the “Derrick Rose Rule,” a provision in the new collective bargaining agreement that makes a player completing his rookie deal eligible for 30 percent of the salary cap as a max salary if he meets certain criteria. Beginning with the 2012-13 season, Rose will receive nearly $95 million over the next five years. That’s about $11 million more than he
Amnesty program includes secondary waivers
And what, you may ask, is secondary waivers? The details still need to be ironed out in “secondary negotiations” between lawyers from the league office and the, ahem, union, but there is going to be a bidding process for players released under the amnesty clause of the new collective bargaining agreement. How will that bidding process work? Something like this: Let’s say the Orlando Magic decide to release Gilbert Arenas, who has $62 million remaining on his contract over the next three years, including
More on NBA Lockout: Talking amnesty on Orlando radio
By Chris Sheridan I went on the radio with longtime colleague Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel this morning to talk about the NBA lockout. We touched on how his local team , the Magic, would benefit the most (along with Portland) from the amnesty provision that will reportedly be part of the eventual NBA collective bargaining agreement. Click here to listen to the interview, which aired on the Open Mike show on 740-The Game radio in Orlando. (Gremlin alert: Will not play on
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