News from October 11. Denver exercised their 16-17 options for Gary Harris and Jusuf Nurkic. New Orleans signed Jerome Jordan. Preseason Games Cha 106, LAC 94 at Shenzhen, China Cody Zeller (Cha) had 16 points including 6-6 FG and 10 rebounds. Jeremy Lin (Cha) had 16 points. Spencer Hawes (Cha) had 10 points including 4-14 FG and 13 rebounds. J.J. Redick (LAC) had 23 points including 4-9 3-pointers. Blake Griffin (LAC) had 13 points, 9 rebounds, and 10 assists. Was 134, Bauru Paschoalotto 100 at Was Marcin Gortat (Was) had 19 points. Drew Gooden (Was) had 15 points and 5 rebounds. Bradley Beal (Was) had 17 points. Robert Day (Bau) had 17 points including 5-7 3-pointers. Meindl Leo (Bau) had 17 points including 5-16 FG and 1-6 3-pointers and 7 rebounds. Was shot 57.1% (48-84) FG and Bau shot 42.5% (37-87) FG. Orl 123, Hou 119 at Hidalgo, Texas Evan Fournier (Orl) had 19 points and 5 rebounds. Tobias Harris (Orl) had 16 points and 5 rebounds. Devyn Marble (Orl) had 21 points including 6-8 FG and 3-3 3-pointers. Corey Brewer (Hou) had 20 points and 3 steals. Marcus Thornton (Hou) had 17 points and 5 rebounds. LAL 126, Maccabi Haifa 83 at LAL Kobe Bryant (LAL) had 21 points including 4-6 3-pointers. Roy Hibbert (LAL) had 8 points, 16 rebounds including 7 offensive, 5 assists, and 3 blocks. Ryan Kelly (LAL) had 15 points including 5-7 FG and 3-3 3-pointers and 7 rebounds. Oz Blayzer (Mac) had 17 points and 3 steals. Reggie Buckner (Mac) had 20 points on 7-8 FG and 6-10 FT and 7 rebounds. LAL shot 54.2% (45-83) FG and Mac shot 38.4% (33-86) FG. ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For Trianglons puzzles: http://www.trianglons.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html