"We will not be averse to being active before the trading deadline,” Dumars told the AP. "But we’re definitely not going to be active just to be active. At this stage, it has to make sense for us going forward. We’re not looking for a short-term fix.”

It would take a lot to even have a short-term fix for the Pistons who will likely try to find a point guard a low-post player that is up on the trading block.

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The word from Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears is that every single member of the team is on the trading block, except for point guard Deron Williams(notes).

Carlos Boozer(notes) is making $12.6 million this year in the last year of his contract will certainly attract the most interest and the team would love to unload him but no serious talks have taken place just yet.

The Hornets apparently asked Brown to give up some of the cash he had coming to him so the deal could work but he wouldn’t do it. The money was contained in trade bonus in his contract that gives Brown a payout of 10 percent of his $1.1 million salary if he gets traded.

"There are some technical rules as to how the salaries have to match up, " Brown’s agent told the paper, "for those teams to make that particular trade they had envisioned. In order for that trade to work with the numbers, Devin would have had to modify part of his contract that was contained in his trade bonus."

Hart was then traded to the Phoenix Suns.

Some had thought that salary-cap drop could be as much as $6 million or $7 million, according to ESPN, but that seems like an outsize number at this point. It is still expected that the cap will drop while simultaneously the streets swell the number of talented free agents becoming available this summer.

The current salary cap is $57.7 million and ESPN has dug up what a few teams are projecting to be the numbers for next season as they plan out their free-agent-signing strategies: The Miami Heat apparently has the biggest projected drop in the cap and is planning around a budget of $52 million. Meanwhile, the New York Knicks are banking on the number being closer to $53 million. And the New Jersey Nets are hoping things don’t drop that much and are projecting a budget of between $54 million and $55 million to work with.

So the Knicks are apparently adjusting their expectations for next summer. There is no doubt the team will make an initial run at James and Wade but the word is that the Knicks are feeling like it is much more likely they’ll end up with Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh(notes) and Atlanta Hawks guard Joe Johnson(notes), who are also both free agents next summer, according to the New York Daily News.

This is still a good combo and a far sight better than what the Knicks have been putting on the floor recently.

Johnson at least has a long-time relationship with Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni, who he played for years ago. "More than anything he gave me a chance, he gave me a chance to play and just play free – and kind of blossom from there. He’s a great coach," Johnson said.

The city is about to sign a deal to have a feasibility study done for a downtown 20,000-seat, $145 million arena to be built and Goodman believes that once that arena is built, the city will get a team, based on conversations Goodman has had with NBA execs. "I believe as soon as we have an arena – this is my belief, I have nothing that is signed in blood, there’s no contract – but I believe we’ll have a team," he said.

Goodman also said it’s possible the city could get a professional hockey team. "I don’t know anything about hockey," he said, laughing. "Whatever the market is gonna be, it’s gonna be."

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman visited Vegas a few months back and Goodman says he’s "high on Las Vegas." Sounds dangerous.

He apparently said last week, "It is vital that I start to memorize the plays." Um, yeah, that would be good. He went on to say, "I’ve been used to a certain system for 17 years, so I have to work on that. I still have a few days before we start."

Guess Shaq has been too busy hosting his own reality show to learn his plays. You’d think for $21 million, the Cavs would have a guy who would at least study his playbook more than a week before the season gets underway.

The Hall of Famer says he’s ready to take whatever good opportunity comes up. "Every job is not a good job, but I think if a good job came up, I would take it," he said. "But I am not going to leave TNT for no bad job.”

Guess this means the Round Mound of Rebound has finally given up on the dream he once had of becoming governor of Alabama.

Bell is supposedly waiting to hear what a specialist in Chicago says about the hand. Meanwhile, he’s wrapping up the hand and practicing layups and three pointers. What ligament tear?

Bell is saying he’s split down the middle between the obligation he’s made to himself, his family, and his career and the obligation he’s made to the team. "Being a competitor and a businessman, I’m kind of split down the middle," he said. "Hopefully this (specialist) comes back, tells me I’m fine to play, and then I don’t have to make a decision.”

According to the New York Post, Johnson’s book alleges that Thomas went around the league spreading the rumor and trying to find proof that Magic was gay or bisexual after Johnson announced that he had HIV. Magic admits in the book that he went out of his way to blackball Thomas off of the initial Dream Team in 1992 that went on to win the gold medal at the Olympics in Barcelona.

Perhaps Magic felt so bad about that that he recommended Thomas to former Madison Square Garden President Steve Mills to take over the New York Knicks back in 2004. Of course, that ended up being a fiasco for both Thomas and the Knicks.

Thomas tells the Post that he and Magic used to go dinner along with Herb Williams whenever Johnson came to New York and stopped in at a Knicks game. Those days are over, fellas.