Dash

Rockets buy back 38th pick, get Parsons.

According to @STEIN_LINE_HQ Rockets are sending the 38th pick & a future first rounder from Grizzlies to Wolves as part of Motiejunas tradeless than a minute ago via Twitter for Mac Favorite Retweet ReplyChad Fordchadfordinsider

Steep price for Motiejunas but could be worth it.

YESSSSS

Ugh.

Great for the Wizards. Keep sliding Motiejunas.

...What?

ABL on suicide watch.

Dammit.

Shocker.

Detroit isn't ruling out swapping the 8th pick with Houston for Nos. 14 and 23, sources say. Depends on who Charlotte takes with No. 7.less than a minute ago via TweetDeck Favorite Retweet ReplyKen BergerKBerg_CBS

Dash's final Rockets big board: 1. Bismack Biyombo - only a few days ago Biyombo could have easily slid to the Rockets at #14 but now it looks unlikely that he will slip out of the top 10. Rockets fans can only hope that something dramatically changes in the next hour and the Rockets either move up or Biyombo slides. 2. Nikola Vucevic - doesn't have the potential to be a cornerstone like Valanciunas, Motiejunas or Biyombo BUT he brings qualities you would want in your starting center. Vucevic can score from in or out of the post, box out his man on the boards and play some decent defense. Also a gritty player, something Morey likes out of his players. 3. Donatas Motiejunas - Motiejunas could be available at the 23rd pick but something tells me that the Wizards of Sixers would take him before we can. Regardless, if Houston misses out on one of the top two players on my board (Vucevic and Biyombo) then they HAVE to find a way to acquire Motiejunas. Great talent and potential and Houston would be an ideal fit for him. 4. Kawhi Leonard/Chris Singleton - the Bobcats reportedly are more interested with Singleton at the 9th pick than Leonard. I don't buy it one bit but whichever one they don't pick will likely be available by the 14th pick. Would prefer Leonard though. 5. Jordan Hamilton - haven't forgotten about Hamilton through all this talk about taking a center. Hamilton's a gunslinger and could be one of the better scorers in this draft.

Same. My gut is telling that there will be another deal but eh whatever.

But you take on Beno Udrih and Stephen Jackson. Granted Jackson is a quality player, his contract is going to be tough to swallow when he's 35 and making $10 million.

Breakdown of deal: Kings get: 10th pick (from Bucks) and John Salmons Bucks get: Stephen Jackson, 19th pick (from Bobcats), Shaun Livingston, and Beno Udrih Bobcats get: 7th pick (from Kings) and Corey Maggette I don't understand why the Kings do this deal.

So the Bucks would be sending the 10th pick +? I wonder if this means the Rockets deal is dead. Edit: more from Woj:

As long as we get at least one of Nikola Vucevic, Donatas Motiejunas or Bismack Biyombo (a reasonable assumption) I'm happy. Starting to doubt we get a chance at Jonas Valanciunas.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_draft_cavaliers_irving_062311&expire=1 Not sure about this deal from the Wolves' perspective. Smith running the floor with Rubio is enticing but the fact of the matter is that Smith is more of a 4 than 3 and evidently I can't see him working out for them. Derrick Williams is in the same boat as Smith, in terms of a tweener, but I think I'd take my chances with him instead.

Could it be the Spurs? Or has another team mustered together a stronger package?

He also might have a buyout issue. Read more NBA news and insight: http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=20170#ixzz1Q7n47pTn

http://espn.go.com/blog/TrueHoop/post/_/id/30662/thunder-looking-to-deal-maynor-to-move-up Maynor? He's a good backup but I can't see there being any way that he would land the Thunder a top 10 pick.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AnsWEC2TCWx4dEP4Lh1msQa8vLYF?slug=aw-wojnarowski_nba_draft_cavaliers_irving_062311

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-8686843 If Leonard fell to us, I would be ecstatic but coming out of this draft without a center would be underwhelming although a large part of that might be because I don't like Shumpert. Motiejunas was off the board by our 23rd pick but Mirotic was still there and I'd give him a look there.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ycn-8686843