Perennial arch rivals Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers leads the way in the off-season transactions as they locked up new vital pieces as both clubs shoot for a second title in three years. Rasheed Wallace broke away from Detroit to further bolstered a strong Celtic frontcourt while Ron Artest dumped his former team Houston Rockets for the defending champions Lakers and the chance to team up with former nemesis Kobe Bryant at Tinseltown. The free agent market formally opened last July 8 and expect more massive movements in the coming months leading to the 2009-10 season.
Herewith is a partial list of off-season transactions from June 23 to July 9, 2009:
Thursday, July 9
Detroit named John Kuester head coach.
Los Angeles Clippers signed forward Blake Griffin.
New York signed guard Toney Douglas.
Chicago signed forwards James Johnson and Taj Gibson.
Cleveland re-signed forward Anderson Varejao.
Dallas traded guard Jerry Stackhouse and cash to Memphis for guard Greg Buckner and traded guard Antoine Wright and forward Devean George to Toronto for forwards Shawn Marion and Kris Humphries, center Nathan Jawai and cash.
Orlando signed forward Hidayet Turkoglu and traded him to Toronto for cash from Dallas and Toronto, who traded a 2016 second-round pick to Memphis.
Wednesday, July 8
Golden State signed guard Stephen Curry.
Boston signed forward Rasheed Wallace.
Los Angeles Lakers re-signed guard Shannon Brown and signed forward Ron Artest.
Indiana signed forward Tyler Hansbrough.
Dallas signed guard Quinton Ross and signed center Marcin Gortat to an offer sheet.
Milwaukee signed guard Jodie Meeks.
Toronto signed forward Andrea Bargnani to a contract extension.
Houston signed forward Trevor Ariza.
San Antonio signed guard Malik Hairston forward Marcus Haislip.
Detroit signed guard Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva.
Sacramento signed guard Tyreke Evans.
New Orleans signed guards Darren Collison and Marcus Thornton.
Charlotte signed guard Gerald Henderson.
Tuesday, July 7
Dallas signed guard Rodrigue Beaubois.
Monday, July 6
New Jersey signed guard Terrence Williams.
Wednesday, July 1
Detroit waived center Fabricio Oberto.
Utah signed guard Eric Maynor.
Chicago named Randy Brown director of player development.
Toronto named Alvin Williams assistant coach.
Philadelphia named Mike O'Koren associate head coach.
Tuesday, June 30
Detroit fired head coach Michael Curry.
Los Angeles Clippers tendered a qualifying offer to forward Steve Novak.
Phoenix exercised the contract option on forward Louis Amundson through 2009-10.
Indiana tendered qualifying offers to guard Jarrett Jack and forward Josh McRoberts.
Monday, June 29
New Jersey exercised the contract option on guard Jarvis Hayes through 2009-10.
Milwaukee tendered qualifying offers to guard Ramon Sessions and forward Ersan Ilyasova.
Toronto tendered a qualifying offer to forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu.
Memphis tendered qualifying offers to guard Juan Carlos Navarro and forward Hakim Warrick.
Friday, June 26
Phoenix traded the draft rights to forward Emir Preldzic to Cleveland for cash.
Utah tendered a qualifying offer to forward Paul Millsap.
Thursday, June 25
Phoenix traded center Shaquille O'Neal to Cleveland for guard Aleksandar Pavlovic, center Ben Wallace, a future conditional second-round pick and cash.
New Jersey traded guard Vince Carter and forward Ryan Anderson to Orlando for guards Rafer Alston and Courtney Lee and center Tony Battie.
Golden State traded guard Jamal Crawford to Atlanta for guards Acie Law and Speedy Claxton.
New York traded guard Quentin Richardson and cash to Memphis for center Dako Milicic.
Sacramento traded the draft rights to forward Jeff Pendergraph to Portland for guard Sergio Rodriguez, the draft rights to forward Jon Brockman and cash.
Los Angeles Lakers traded the draft rights guard Patrick Beverley to Miami for a 2011 second-round pick and cash.
Washington traded the draft rights to guard Jermaine Taylor to Houston for cash.
New York traded a 2011 second-round pick and cash to the Los Angeles Lakers for the draft rights to guard Toney Douglas.
Minnesota traded the draft rights to guard Ty Lawson to Denver for a 2010 conditional first-round pick.
Dallas traded the draft rights to center BJ Mullens to Oklahoma City for the draft rights to guard Rodrigue Beaubois and a future second-round pick.
Denver traded the draft rights to guard Sergio Llull to Houston for cash.
Miami traded the draft rights to guard Marcus Thornton to New Orleans for two future second-round picks.
Detroit traded the draft rights to forward Chase Budinger to Houston for a future second-round pick and cash.
Dallas traded a future second-round pick to Portland for the draft rights to guard Nick Calathes.
Oklahoma City traded cash to Charlotte for the draft rights to guard Robert Vaden.
Wednesday, June 24
Minnesota traded guard Randy Foye and forward Mike Miller to Washington for forwards Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov and the 5th overall pick.
Portland traded the 24th and 56th overall picks and a second-round pick in 2010 to Dallas for the 22nd overall pick.
Tuesday, June 23
Milwaukee traded traded center Fabricio Oberto to Detroit for forward Amir Johnson.
New York extended qualifying offers to guard Nate Robinson and forward David Lee.
Charlotte extended a qualifying offer to guard Raymond Felton.
San Antonio traded forwards Bruce Bowen and Kurt Thomas and center Fabricio Oberto to Milwaukee for forward Richard Jefferson.
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