Lakers Get Rad, Clippers Take Thomas

Donald Sterling is proving that he's still determined to shed his label for being cheap. Yesterday he re-signed his (almost) 37-yr old point guard Sam Cassell for two more years at $6.5 mil a year, and then he nearly doubled Phoenix's offer to Tim Thomas, who will probably be the Clippers' 6th man.

Meanwhile the Lakers picked up Vladimir Radmanovic who left the Clippers for a five-year, $31-million deal to shoot threes and be weird. Radmanovic of course being the one who two years ago turned down a six-year, $42-million contract from Seattle in favor of a one-year $3.1 mil season with the Clippers, which means he gets to play six years for LA and only loses $9 million.

In New Orleans, Peja Stojakovic agreed to terms with the Hornets, because Peja has no desire to ever be in a championship series, and he liked the part about the Big Easy being totally wi-fi. Okay we made that last part up.