Built Ford Tough

Brian Cook and a pick.

BYU in trouble, Hartsock with 3 fouls already, only 11 minutes into the game. With them already down 14 and their leading scorer likely out for the rest of the half, this game has a very realistic chance of being over at the half. I can't see Marquette blowing a huge lead like Iona did.

Houston may buyout Fisher, dependong on Lowry's health.

Doubt it after they moved Fisher. Can't see them trading Blake now. Also, Crawford and Felton's agents were both saying that their clients are staying in Portland, so this looks to be dead.

No deal for Boston:

How the [expletive] do you get a 1st round pick for Fisher? Jesus christ. EDIT: NVM Lakers traded Dallas' first to Houston.

Southern Miss with a nice little run to get back in this game. Nice reverse from Rodriguez. Poor help defense, but it is hard to help when the primary defender gets blown by like that.

Flynn and Thabeet. Portland really throwing in the towel on this season and going full on tank mode.

Golden State has added a lot of salary over the past few days. A lot of questionable contracts on that team right now: Biedrins Bogut Lee Jefferson are all due to make $9M+ for at least 2 more seasons after this one.

I doubt they go after another 2nd. A more likely scenario is they try to package Indy's 2nd, their own 2nd and cash to move into the 1st round to try and grab a point guard. Purely my own opinion here, but I think Kabongo would be the target, assuming he declares.

Gary Forbes is probably jumping for joy right now. Dude probably came to the team thinking he would get some legitimate burn but has been glued to the bench for the most part. Now with Calderon hurt and Barbosa dealt, he is going to get some consistent minutes for the next few games. Oh yeah, Raptors also got cash from Indy.

Southern Miss has no answer for McGruder. He is getting into the paint at will and is basically single handedly keeping K-State in the game. He has 22 of their 35 points. If Southern Miss can find a way to slow him down, this is a very winnable game considering how little K-State is getting from their supporting cast.

Love this for LA. They were trying to get Augustin but "settled" for Sessions.

Colorado State is imploding right now. They've turned it over 12 times now, which has directly resulted in them losing their 1 point half time lead and are now down 8. If this continues, Murray State is going to "race" away with this one. Yes, I realize that is ridiculously cheesy.

Both of us seem to be wrong. Looks like New Jersey would be sending their own 1st, top 3 protected: Awesome deal for Portland if this is in fact true. EDIT: I think I'll just hand the Woj news posting to you and. You are always like 5 seconds ahead of me. Don't know if it is because I'm watching NCAA and that makes me late reading his updated tweets or what, but I'll just let you post his latest stuff, haha.

Dude should just be happy that the Celtics were desperate enough to give him the contract in the first place. He is toast.

McGruder off to a hot start for K-State. 11 points for him already.

And finally the saga comes to an end. Who's ready for it to continue next year?

Rockets 1st probably involved, not sure what else would be.

Also, keep in mind Toronto is going to get a $7.6M TPE that expires around next years deadline out of this as well, so it isn't just a late 2nd round pick. Could be a valuable chip next year for Toronto. EDIT: Actually, I think I might be wrong. Since Toronto is under the cap they shouldn't get a TPE, unless something changed in the new CBA.

Clippers are obviously one, Bulls probably another. Who else can you see interested in him? Does Boston even trade him now that they are just 2 games back of the Sixers for the division lead?

Yeah, Spears is reporting that it is a 2nd as well. I don't really care about the return. I'm just happy that Barbosa is gone as it solidifies the Raptors tank during the home stretch. Their offense is going to take a huge hit without his scoring punch. I was hoping they could potentially get a late 1st out of a team like Chicago for him, but I never really expected that.

They just wanted to get under the luxury tax and by dealing Young without taking salary on, I believe they accomplished that.

Probably won't be individual game threads until the Sweet Sixteen. We will have daily threads for each day until then.