News from September 30. TRADE: In a sign-and-trade, New Orleans re-signed Dan Dickau and then traded him to Boston for Miami's 2nd round draft pick in 2006. Atlanta signed Ajani Williams, Roderick Riley, Mark Strickland, Anthony Wilkins, and Anthony Grundy. Charlotte re-signed Keith Bogans to a 1 year, $869,373 contract. Charlotte signed Marcus Campbell, Jason Capel, D'or Fischer, and Matt Nelson. Denver re-signed Greg Buckner to a 2 year, $3.52 million contract with a player option for the 2nd year. Denver signed Nigel Dixon to a non-guaranteed contract. Miami made an offer sheet to restricted free agent Jason Kapono. Charlotte has 7 days to match the offer. New Jersey signed Arthur Johnson, Ricky Shields, Derrick Zimmerman, Adam Chubb, and Ben Handlogten. New Orleans signed 2nd round draft pick (#33) Brandon Bass. Phoenix signed Anthony Lever-Pedroza. Seattle re-signed Mateen Cleaves. Seattle signed Noel Felix, Roger Powell, Tre Simmons, Alex Scales, Omar Thomas, and Ezra Williams to 1 year, non-guaranteed contracts. Utah re-signed Keith McLeod. Utah signed Spencer Nelson, Andre Owens, James Lang, Mark Karcher, and Cory Violette. Steve Smith (Mia) announced his retirement from the NBA. The LA Clippers named Neil Olshey as director of player personnel.