News from July 13. TRADE: Houston traded Royce White, the rights to 2012 draft pick (#53) Furkan Aldemir, and future considerations to Philadelphia for future draft considerations. Atlanta matched Milwaukee's 4 year, $32 million offer sheet to restricted free agent Jeff Teague and, thus, Teague remains with Atlanta. Atlanta signed Utah free agent DeMarre Carroll to a 2 year, $5 million contract. Dallas signed Milwaukee free agent Monta Ellis to a 3 year, $25 million contract. Houston signed LA Lakers free agent Dwight Howard to a 4 year, $88 million contract. Houston released Tim Ohlbrecht and James Anderson. Milwaukee signed Dallas free agent O.J. Mayo to a 3 year, $24 million contract. Minnesota signed 1st round draft pick (#21) Gorgui Dieng to a 2 year, $2,711,880 contract with 2 more years worth $3,897,279 at the team's option. Sacramento signed 1st round draft pick (#7) Ben McLemore to a 2 year, $5,805,960 contract with 2 more years worth $8,797,774 at the team's option. San Antonio re-signed Tiago Splitter to a 4 year, $36 million contract. ---- 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