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On paper, Raja Bell is a part of the Jazz, but in practice, he's not part of practice. The veteran guard is on Utah's active training camp roster, but the team has requested that he not report. Bell wasn't buying in to coach Tyrone Corbin during his first full year, remarking that their relationship has suffered "irreparable damage,"* but the team has yet to buy Bell out. Both sides have made it clear as a, ahem, Bell he won't be back^.

Ball don't lie, but Rasheed Wallace do. Reports are that Knicks have agreed to CTC (that's Cut The Check, in 'Sheed slang) for Wallace, who retired after the 2009-10 season, meaning he'll have more cobwebs on him than a haunted house. The 38-year-old Wallace adds to already aging assemblage of: Jason Kidd (39), Marcus Camby (38) and Kurt Thomas (39). This quartet is so old, we're dubbing them, "The Golden Guys," and have selected the squad's entrance song: "Thank You for Being a Season Ticket Holder Friend."

At 22-44, the Nets were a joke last season, as they've been for half a decade, but Deron Williams didn't find it funny that his teammates were tee-heeing, post-trouncing. "I think no matter who it is, if you were there every day and you saw what was going on in the locker room you'd be pissed off too sometimes. You're getting your asses kicked and then you're in the locker room laughing about the game afterwards," explained Williams, who found the yuking yucky. He'd rather his pals play their asses off, than laugh them off.


*Like that between Amanda Bynes and BMW.

^It's The Casual Vacancy nearly no one is interested in.