NEW YORK -- The best thing about the NFL season is the NBA season is just around the gully, so over the ridge to Grandpa Stern's house we go.
With training camps scheduled to open for business as unusual on Sept. 29, the configuration of numerous rosters (the pool's in but the patio ain't dry) remain exceptionally uncompleted.
The Nets' aversion to assume Ruben Patterson's rack of baggage as well as his $25 million, four-year guarantee, coupled by the Blazers' unwillingness to take on Dikembe Mutombo's full ($37.6 million) two-year guarantee, appears to have terminated talk of a Kenyon Martin-Rasheed Wallace exchange.