Sure, it’s ridiculous that anybody should get paid not to work, but Larry Brown will be paid at least $18.5 million of the remaining $53 million he had left on his contract with the New York Knicks. Brown has been rumored to be receiving somewhere between $20-$40 million, but terms have the buyout haven’t been announced.

The Supersonics are done in Seattle, unless private investors come up with a huge sum of money for a new arena. It doesn’t take much speculation to realize that the team will be moving to Oklahoma City as soon as the Hornets can move back to New Orleans.

Just after being featured as one of the NBA’s players who has fully recovered from injury, Kenyon Martin will be having surgery on what was originally his “good knee”.  Just a few minutes before tip-off, Martin was told by team doctors he needed an MRI which showed the need for the surgery.

Darius Miles will also be having surgery on his knee.

The NBA player’s labor union plans to take action against the ridiculously high technical fouls. “You say you want to deter it, curtail that kind of conduct on the court and now it’s kind of dipped down so the slightest little inclination … a guy throws his hands up, the refs are now calling a tech,” according to union representative Billy Hunter. Hunter also noted that players are fined for each technical foul they receive. There have been over twice as many technical fouls as last season, but for obviously more minor complaints from the players.