NBA Free Agent List 2010: The Peachtree Hoops Scoreboard (Day Two)

by The Human Highlight Blog on Jul 2, 2010 8:40 AM EDT

Follow along throughout the Free Agent season here at Peachtree Hoops, where we'll look at each day of the initial free agent frenzy and track who has signed where (with Color Coding!) as well as provide our own commentary along the way and how it may affect our Atlanta Hawks.

Day Two:

The first day has passed and none of the top seven players, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Amare Stoudemire, David Lee, or Carlos Boozer has come to any agreement...as far as we know.

The first day saw some spirited bidding for some just above the MLE type players: Drew Gooden, Channing Frye, Amir Johnson, and John Salmons as well as a max extension for Memphis' Rudy Gay.

How will today shake out? Come around and check on in for the updates around the league and to check the Scoreboard (updated below):

UPDATE: The Oregonian reports that Steve Blake is signing a 4 year, 16 million dollar deal with the Lakers.

UPDATE: Per Marc Spears of Y! Sports, the Phoenix Suns have reached a 4 year, 18 million dollar agreement with Hakim Warrick.

UPDATE: According to the Boston Herald (by way of CelticsBlog), Paul Pierce has agreed to a 4 year deal to re-sign with the team. The fourth year is non-guaranteed.

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impressive

most impressive, rec

...in dixie land i'll take my stand to root for Atlanta

by southman on Jul 2, 2010 9:35 AM EDT reply actions

What is WS, PER and WS/48?

by chgobr on Jul 2, 2010 9:57 AM EDT reply actions

Advanced Statistics

From the glossary at basketball-reference.com (donate today!)

WS
Win Shares (available since the 1951-52 season in the NBA); an estimate of the number of wins contributed by a player. Please see the article Calculating Win Shares for more information.

WS/48
Win Shares Per 48 Minutes (available since the 1951-52 season in the NBA); an estimate of the number of wins contributed by the player per 48 minutes (league average is approximately 0.100). Please see the article Calculating Win Shares for more information.

Player Efficiency Rating (available since the 1951-52 season); PER is a rating developed by ESPN.com columnist John Hollinger. In John’s words, “The PER sums up all a player’s positive accomplishments, subtracts the negative accomplishments, and returns a per-minute rating of a player’s performance.” Please see the article Calculating PER for more information. Also see VAA and VAR.

by The Human Highlight Blog on Jul 2, 2010 10:25 AM EDT reply actions

Those last two

They really should get more play in today’s game much like they do in baseball. It’s interesting looking at the two differences between the sports as it relates to advanced statistics.

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by Jesse28 on Jul 2, 2010 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions

It's harder with team-oriented sports

A lot comes into play with team basketball. The performance of baseball players is fairly measurable, though. As well, most teams use advanced statistics regularly. The public just has no clue what they are.

by axhfan on Jul 2, 2010 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions