News from September 29. The NBA fined Washington owner Ted Leonsis $100,000 for unauthorized public comments regarding the collective bargaining negotiations. Leonsis said that he expects the next CBA to have a hard cap. Golden State exercised their 11-12 option for Stephen Curry. Atlanta signed Evan Brock, Richard Delk, and Ricardo Marsh to non-guaranteed contracts. Denver signed Shane Edwards, Melvin Ely, Gary Forbes, and Courtney Sims. Memphis signed Luke Jackson, Tre Kelley, Kenny Thomas, Damien Wilkins, and Josh Davis to non-guaranteed contracts. Milwaukee signed Tory Jackson, Chris Kramer, and Billy Rush to non-guaranteed contracts. New Jersey released Andre Brown. Jason Williams (Orl) is underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and is expected to be out 4 weeks. Patrick O'Bryant, who played 09-10 with Toronto, signed with Fujian XunXin of the Chinese league. ---- Patricia Bender pbender@eskimo.com For NBA stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/index.html For Mavs stuff: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbender/mavs.html