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Ricky Rubio plans to part ways with Spanish club DKV Joventut even if the Minnesota Timberwolves cannot reach a deal to bring their first-round draft pick to the NBA. Timberwolves president David Kahn was in Spain this week to try and help the fifth overall pick negotiate a buyout of his ...

When Matt Delzell takes a look at Ricky Rubio through his sports marketer's glasses, all he sees are dollar signs. "He's young. He's Spanish. He's a good-looking kid," said Delzell, a director for Los Angeles-based Davie Brown Talent, one of the largest talent buyers in the United States. "There is a ...

First-round draft pick Hasheem Thabeet has signed with the Memphis Grizzlies. The 7-foot-3 center from Connecticut was the second pick in the draft. Thabeet is due to make about $7.7 million over two years under the rookie salary scale. Thabeet is the first Tanzanian-born player drafted by an NBA team. He averaged ...

The Minnesota Timberwolves cannot do much financially to help Ricky Rubio with a multimillion-dollar buyout of his contract with DKV Joventut in Spain. So team president David Kahn will head across the Atlantic next week to meet with the team personally in hopes of lowering the $6.6 million price tag that ...

The San Antonio Spurs announced today that they signed DeJuan Blair. The Spurs drafted Blair in the second round of the 2009 NBA Draft with the 37th overall pick. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed. Blair, a 6-7, 265 lb. forward, spent the past two seasons at ...

The Charlotte Bobcats have signed second-round draft pick Derrick Brown to a two-year contract. The deal announced Monday guarantees Brown his first-year salary for the NBA minimum of about $458,000. The second year has a partial guarantee that could be worth about $736,000. The 6-foot-8 former Xavier star was the 40th overall ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed guard James Harden, center B.J. Mullens and forward Serge Ibaka. Terms of the deals were not disclosed Saturday. Harden, the third overall pick in the draft, was a first-team All-American and the Pac-10 player of the year after averaging 20.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists ...

First-round draft pick Jordan Hill has signed with the New York Knicks. The Knicks announced Saturday that they had signed the forward from Arizona. Hill was the eighth overall pick in the draft. He would earn about $4.3 million over two years under the rookie salary scale. The 6-foot-10, 235-pound Hill averaged 18.3 ...

Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls is the recipient of the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy as the 2008-09 T-Mobile NBA Rookie of the Year, the NBA announced today. Rose received 111 first-place votes (574 points) from a panel of 120 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Memphis' ...

There is somebody notably absent from this week's Rookie Rankings, kind of like how it seemed wrong that Jack Nicholson wasn't occupying his usual front row seat at the Oscars last month. He's not in the top 10. He's not in the next 10. But his plight is being bantered about ...