News from July 16. TRADE: In a sign-and-trade, Portland signed Raymond Felton to a 3 year, $10 million contract and New York signed Jared Jeffries and then Portland traded Felton and Kurt Thomas to New York for Jeffries, Dan Gadzuric, the rights to 2nd round draft pick (#48) Kostas Papanikolaou, the rights to 2007 2nd round draft pick Giorgos Printezis, and a future 2nd round draft pick. TRADE: Chicago traded Kyle Korver to Atlanta for cash. TRADE: Toronto traded James Johnson to Sacramento for a 2014 2nd round draft pick. Atlanta released Jordan Farmar. New York signed Chris Copeland to a non-guaranteed contract. Philadelphia released Darryl Watkins. Phoenix signed 1st round draft pick (#13) Kendall Marshall to a $3,924,720 with 2 more years worth $5,081,079 at the team's option. Sacramento signed Aaron Brooks to a 2 year, $6 million contract. Sacramento released Hassan Whiteside. Toronto signed 2nd round draft pick (#37) Quincy Acy. Blake Griffin (LAC) underwent surgery on his left knee to repair a torn meniscus. Kyrie Irving (Cle) is scheduled to undergo surgery on his broken right hand on Wednesday. ---- 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