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To me, what happens to Andray Blatche in free agency is going to be one of the most fascinating subplots to play out this summer. In the past, a player like Blatche – a clearly talented, athletic 7-footer who produced the way that he did this season in Brooklyn – would be a player who would easily get a multi-year deal, possibly for as many as four years, and for at least a few million dollars a season. NY Post

But, like J.R. Smith with the Knicks, it should be fascinating to see how a player like Blatche is impacted by the league’s collective bargaining agreement that was agreed upon during the lockout. This is the first summer where we’ll truly begin to see the restrictions that agreement put into place begin to have an impact on teams and how they spend their money. NY Post

The Nets have said they would like Blatche to come back, and Blatche has said the same, but we’ll see what happens. With the Nets all but certain to use their one exception to sign a player for more than the minimum to sign Bojan Bogdanovic, the only way they could re-sign Blatche is to offer him 120 percent of what he signed for last year – or a little less than $1.5 million. NY Post

Next season, Carmelo Anthony’s main sidekick could be a healthy, emerging Iman Shumpert. One major issue with the Knicks’ roster going forward is its lack of upside: The team is ancient, and few players have real room for NBA growth. One of the exceptions is Shumpert, who just emblazoned his second year as a pro with an electric playoff run, capped by his 3-pointer binge in Game 6 in Indianapolis that nearly saved the Knicks’ season. NY Post

Look, it’s hard to envision a situation where Stoudemire isn’t a part of the Knicks going forward. That $20 million annual price tag makes him virtually untradeable. The Knicks used their post-lockout, one-time-only amnesty on Chauncey Billups last year, which allowed them to sign Tyson Chandler. And while it’s hard to find any positive adjectives to describe Chandler’s performance against Indiana, it’s hard to argue his addition didn’t serve as an important impetus to this 54-win, division championship season. So if team and player are stuck with each other, they need to find a way to make this work — and if the Knicks’ success is at the center of both, then Stoudemire’s goal ought to be to keep the Sixth Man Award in the family. NY Post

Archie Goodwin’s strengths are his size, length, foot speed, and athletic ability. Archie is very fast with the ball in his hands and can put a lot of pressure on defenders in transition. He also can finish strongly at the rim, has excellent leaping ability and first-step quickness, and outstanding body control through contact. Goodwin’s main weaknesses are his perimeter jump shot, left hand, and understanding of the game. His shooting form is incorrect for starters. He repositions the ball and releases slightly sideways. On perimeter jump shots, he never seems to jump straight up, always sideways or off-balance, and rarely lands in the same spot he starts from. He also shoots the ball at a flat trajectory, often leaving it short. Goodwin has a lot of things broken in his jumper. It’s not as bad as Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, but it’s pretty broken for a guard. It will take time to fix all these things, but the big chunks can be addressed pretty quickly, like shooting off-balance and the flat trajectory. HawksBasketBlog

Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski is terrific. I read him. But you can’t break every NBA signing story without doing the bidding of the power agents. Media outlets are so clicks-driven that they believe breaking news about inconsequential free-agent signings is far more important than providing legitimate insightful perspective. That’s why there’s so much collective silence surrounding Hunter’s fascinating, look-behind-the-curtain lawsuit. Most of the NBA media (CBS’s Ken Berger is a rare exception) apparently haven’t been given permission by their “sources” to write about Hunter’s lawsuit. Most outlets used the AP story and the playoffs as an excuse to avoid the topic. It’s the okeydoke. The fourth estate is supposed to represent your interest, the workingman’s interest. Most often, when it really matters, we represent corporate interest. Fox Sports

Kent police say Boston Celtics basketball player Terrence Williams was arrested Sunday and accused of brandishing a gun at the mother of his 10-year-old son during a visitation exchange. He was booked into the King County Jail in Seattle early Monday for investigation of an assault charge, with a court appearance expected later in the day. AP

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Tony Parker had 20 points and nine assists, Kawhi Leonard scored 18 points, and the Spurs struck first by beating Memphis, 105-83, on Sunday. San Antonio raced to a 17-point lead in the first quarter, then came up with a response when Memphis rallied to get within six in the second half. Both teams pulled their starters with over 5 minutes left and the Spurs leading by 21. “I can promise you this: Nobody’s happy in our locker room, because we were up, 2-0, (in the West finals) last year and we lost,” Parker said. “It’s just one game. It means nothing. We still have a long way to go.” Detroit Free Press

The NBA’s stingiest defense wasn’t up to its usual standards, allowing the Spurs to hit 53 percent of their shots and a franchise postseason-record 14 3-pointers while All-Star power forward Zach Randolph struggled. Randolph had just two points, getting his only basket with 9:26 left in the game. AP

The four regular-season meetings were all won by the team with more points in the paint, but perimeter shooting proved to be a bigger factor in the playoff opener. Memphis, which was second in the NBA by holding opponents to 33.8 shooting on 3-pointers, let San Antonio make 13 of its first 24 from behind the arc and finish 14 of 29. Danny Green connected three times and scored 16, and Matt Bonner hit four of his five attempts for 12 points… Pondexter led Memphis with 17 points, Marc Gasol scored 15 and Mike Conley had 14 points and eight assists. AP

“Defense is what we want to hang our hat on,” Tim Duncan said before his Spurs routed the Grizzlies in Game 1. “The league has changed. You want to be defensive, but the kind of high-octane, defensive teams that we have out there, we’ve got to score the ball.” But, like Duncan said, it always starts with defense. To get to their eighth West finals in the last 15 years, the Spurs shut down Golden State’s shooters, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson. NY Daily News

With the Lakers hoping for a swift decision from Dwight Howard on his free agency this summer, the All-Star center has given no indication he will rush the process and has privately indicated he plans to give strong consideration to multiple teams, league sources told CBSSports.com. Though Howard is adamant his free agency not be marred by the circus-like environment that surrounded his departure from Orlando last summer, word already has spread to multiple levels of his support staff that Howard re-signing with the Lakers is far from a done deal. CBS Sports Blog

With six weeks to go before Howard becomes an unrestricted free agent, the team that is said to intrigue him the most is the Houston Rockets, according to multiple people briefed on internal conversations surrounding Howard's free-agent decision. CBS Sports Blog

The Rockets are a couple of minor moves away from having room to sign Howard; they have a team option on Francisco Garcia's $6.4 million and Carlos Delfino's $3 million is fully non-guaranteed, for example. If they chose to or needed to make a trade to create room, they have numerous attractive young players on tradable contracts, such as 2012 No. 5 pick Thomas Robinson. Such assets could be moved to a team or teams under the cap to create room or packaged in a possible sign-and-trade with LA -- if the Lakers became convinced Howard would leave and they'd receive nothing in return. CBS Sports Blog

The Mavericks represent another franchise that intrigues Howard, and Dallas is a minor transaction or two away from having enough room to sign Howard outright as an unrestricted free agent. Howard plans to explore all such options, and a person briefed on his plans told CBSSports.com that there are "several" teams the free-agent center is "going to take a hard look at." CBS Sports Blog

The clear advantage for the Lakers in their effort to re-sign Howard is the 2011 collective bargaining agreement, which allows LA to give Howard a five-year deal with annual increases based on 7.5 percent of his first-year salary in a new deal -- which will be in excess of $20 million. Another team with cap room to sign Howard could only give him a four-year deal with 4.5 percent annual increases -- the same arrangement Howard would be limited to if he agreed to leave via a sign-and-trade. CBS Sports Blog

Knicks: Here’s what needs to happen: Out with the old (starting with Jason Kidd) and in with the new (young players with athleticism). But it won’t be easy, with all the guaranteed contracts that Jim Dolan is on the hook for. All you need to know about the inflexibility facing executive VP of basketball operations Glen Grunwald is that Marcus Camby, who played all of three minutes in the 12 playoff games, is on the books for two more years. NY Daily News

The Knicks can’t win the way Miami does. No one can because James is on his own level, while Anthony operates a few notches below with the rest of the mere mortals. If they can’t unload Chandler and Amar’e Stoudemire, whom no team is going to touch because of a medical record that stretches a good couple of feet, they might just have to try to do what the Pacers have been doing. “Look at NBA history, right?’’ said Indiana’s Frank Vogel when the Pacers had advanced. NY Daily News

Amar’e Stoudemire knows his contract won’t allow him to go anywhere and he wants Mike Woodson to make a commitment to make a frontcourt of Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler work. “We never gave it a chance,” Stoudemire said after Indiana’s 106-99 victory eliminated the Knicks from the postseason. “So I think just the opportunity of allowing them to understand exactly what my style of play is and what I bring to the table is something that I think I’m going to have to sit down with Coach Woody and express to him.” NY Daily News

Stoudemire has two years remaining on his uninsured contract and is nearly impossible to trade. He produced one field goal and zero rebounds in six minutes on Saturday. NY Daily News

Kenyon Martin says he’d like to return to the Knicks but understands “that’s not up to me.” Martin was a good addition after being signed in February and eventually moved ahead of Stoudemire in the rotation. NY Daily News

Onetime Indiana University coach Kelvin Sampson, fired a little more than five years ago, is in the mix for four of the six NBA head coaching openings. Sampson, 57, has interviewed for the vacant positions at both Milwaukee and Charlotte, and is expected to interview for the openings in Philadelphia and Phoenix this week, a source close to the situation told CBSSports.com. Sampson was forced to resign at Indiana in February 2008 for making impermissible phone calls -- and was thrown a lifeline by the San Antonio Spurs, where he finished out the 2008 campaign as an advisor, sitting behind the bench for games. Sampson spent the next three seasons on Scott Skiles' staff in Milwaukee before joining Kevin McHale in Houston in 2011. CBS Sports

Sources told CBSSports.com that Charlotte and Phoenix are interested in Snyder. In his seven years at Missouri, Snyder was 126-91. However, the program was placed on probation in 2004 because of activities surrounding former player Ricky Clemons. CBS Sports

Former Detroit Pistons ‘Bad Boy’ Isiah Thomas continued to keep busy in school after a Hall of Fame playing career and multiple years as a basketball coach. Today, it paid off for him. Thomas graduated with a masters of education from the University of California at Berkeley, tweeting his cap and gown and retweeting congratulations to other UC Berkeley graduates. He said in a recent Huffington Post story that he has “studied the connections between education and sports. In pursuing this degree, I have had the time to reflect on how we, as a society, make available access to education for athletes, especially black male athletes.” Detroit Free Press

Kent Police Detectives are actively investigating a domestic violence case, which involved threats with a gun that occurred late Sunday afternoon. At about 1:55 p.m., officers were dispatched to meet the victim who resides in the downtown Kent area. The victim reported that the father of her 10-year-old son in common, identified as NBA basketball player Terrence D. Williams, arrived to her home for a scheduled visitation exchange of their son. She said during the exchange in the parking lot area an argument ensued. The victim reported that during the argument Williams brandished a firearm and made threats. Kent Reporter

Williams was taken into custody without incident. Kent Police said it was a domestic violence case under investigation. The incident happened around 1:55 p.m. Sunday in downtown Kent. The victim is a woman who told police she has a 10-year-old son whose father is Williams. Seattle Times

On Sunday night, Kobe Bryant announced "Kobe up Close," an Aug. 15 charity event to be held at Nokia Theatre. "I'd like to officially announce that I'm partnering with the Sports Spectacular to help eradicate homelessness," said Bryant in a pre-recorded video, aired at the Sports Spectacular 2013 gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel. "You can learn about my past, present and future," said Bryant of the event, which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. "It's for an incredible cause." LA Times Blog

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