NBA off season Updates and News

These past few weeks in the NBA have been very quite, as most off seasons are, but a few teams are  still trying to make there last minute trades before the preseason begins in September. The Dallas Mavericks this past week were told by there new starting guard Monta Ellis that he doesn't want to have to "carry the team on his back", and would like another super star guard to assist with the duties. Ellis explained that this was one of the reasons why his 3 point shooting percentage progressively decreased with the Golden State warriors and  Milwaukee bucks. Later  in the week the Mavericks signed another guard that could help Ellis in the back court and with facilitating Jose Calderon. Calderon said Thursday "Maybe not going to be fancy passes for me, Just effective." We will see this coming  up season if Ellis's numbers will go up because of his new assistance that will be receieved  receiving. On Thursday we also saw some more trades that took place. The Boston Celtics on Thursday traded First round draft pick Fab Melo and cash to the Mempis Grizzlies Thursday for a non guaranteed contract for Donte Greene. Greene will be headed to the Grizzlies for a 1 million dollar contract. Melo was traded to the Grizzlies because of the Celtics being over the cap by $700,000. Melo was expected to make 1.3 million this year but because of the cap space he had to be traded. We will see this coming  up season if this will hurt the Celtics or not.