News from October 21. Milwaukee released Jorge Gutierrez, Marcus Landry, and Josh Powell. Minnesota exercised their 16-17 options for Gorgui Dieng, Zach LaVine, Shabazz Muhammad, Adreian Payne, and Andrew Wiggins. Orlando released Melvin Ejim. San Antonio released Jimmer Fredette, Youssou Ndoye, Keifer Sykes, and Deshaun Thomas. Utah signed E.J. Singler. Preseason Games Pho 99, Dal 87 at Dal Markieff Morris (Pho) had 18 points. Eric Bledsoe (Pho) had 12 points on 4-11 FG and 3-10 FT and 7 assists. T.J. Warren (Pho) had 14 points, 8 rebounds, and 3 steals. John Jenkins (Dal) had 22 points including 1-7 3-pointers. Raymond Felton (Dal) had 17 points and 5 turnovers. Mia 110, Was 105 at Mia Gerald Green (Mia) had 28 points including 9-12 FT and 9 rebounds. Chris Bosh (Mia) had 13 points including 4-14 FG and 7 rebounds. Tyler Johnson (Mia) had 14 points including 5-7 FG. Kris Humphries (Was) had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Marcin Gortat (Was) had 18 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks. Mem 82, Atl 81 at Atl Zach Randolph (Mem) had 19 points and 13 rebounds including 5 offensive. Jeff Green (Mem) had 10 points and 5 rebounds. Courtney Lee (Mem) had 10 points including 4-12 FG. Kent Bazemore (Atl) had 18 points including 7-10 FG. Paul Millsap (Atl) had 17 points, 9 rebounds, and 4 steals. Al Horford (Atl) had 13 points, 14 rebounds, and 4 blocks. Cha 99, Det 94 at Det Nicolas Batum (Cha) had 18 points including 5-14 FG, 10 rebounds, and 6 assists. Jeremy Lin (Cha) had 18 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists. Al Jefferson (Cha) had 17 points including 5-15 FG and 6 rebounds. Andre Drummond (Det) had 21 points including 10-14 FG and 15 rebounds. Reggie Jackson (Det) had 10 points including 3-15 FG and 0-8 3-pointers and 11 assists. Orl 110, NO 107 OT at Orl Nikola Vucevic (Orl) had 24 points including 6-11 FT and 14 rebounds including 7 offensive. Tobias Harris (Orl) had 18 points and 8 rebounds. Mario Hezonja (Orl) had 19 points including 4-6 3-pointers. Anthony Davis (NO) had 33 points on 8-24 FG and 17-19 FT, 16 rebounds, and 5 blocks. Nate Robinson (NO) had 18 points including 7-11 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