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Charlotte Hornets waiving Rasheed Sulaimon, Mike Tobey, Perry Ellis and Andrew Andrews, source told ESPN.

Wayne waived too😩

Time to follow in the footsteps of Keith Langford. See the world, learn new languages. How does Self keep winning with non-pros?

@wrwlumpy we are a TEAM

Not about Perry or Wayne but good news about Oubre. http://wizofawes.com/2016/10/22/washington-wizards-pick-kelly-oubre-option-2017-18-season/ ↗

@Crimsonorblue22

Really bad news about Perry and Wayne; hopefully they can stick it out for a while in the D League and another team picks them up. Does anyone know what is the status of Chalmers? His last contract was pretty decent so he is probably set financially; one would think that he still has a few yeas left in the tank.

@JayHawkFanToo Chalmers is out until at least mid season because of his achilles injury last season. He may get picked up towards the end of the year by a team devastated by injury like Memphis was or a playoff team that needs some extra depth in the back court.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Chalmers is done in the NBA and heads overseas when healthy.

@Crimsonorblue22 Dammit dammit dammit!

@Texas-Hawk-10 I dont think we should count Chalmers out just yet.

PS. anyone know what happened to Drew Gooden? I see he isnt with the Wiz anymore.

@Lulufulu

From RotoWorld...

"Drew Gooden has reportedly received interest from the Knicks, Raptors, Lakers and Clippers.
Gooden could take on a mentorship role as a veteran presence with any one of the aforementioned clubs."

Here is a link ↗with some information on KU players

Kinda surprising seeing Waynes numbers from the other night, I bet they will have a choice of going over seas or D league. I was surprised that Van Fleet and Baker from WSU made a roster, Fleet with Toronto and Baker with New York.

@kjayhawks

Selden's ball handling issues make it tough to carry him on a roster because he can't play PG, even in a pinch, and he's not quite big enough to play your bigger 3's. That's why Baker made a roster (can play both on and off the ball). Perry isn't healthy, so I am not surprised that he wasn't retained.

Wayne needs to dedicate himself to learning to handle the ball well enough to play spot minutes at the point.

@justanotherfan

Spot on!

@justanotherfan good points probably more surprised van fleet made it he cant shoot to save his life and isnt very big maybe frank has hope then.

@kjayhawks

Van Vleet is a PG though. He can be a backup PG that can come in and run the team for 5 minutes at a time while Lowry rests. He won't play more than 15 minutes a game (barring injury). His only job is to make sure the ball gets distributed to the second unit and that he doesn't turn the basketball over.

Every team has to have three types of players on the bench:

1. Backup PG - to rest your primary ball handler
2. Backup C - to give fouls if your main big guys get into foul trouble
3. Wing scorer/ defender - A guy that can come in with the second unit and get points to keep the second unit from stalling out offensively, or can come in and clamp down on the other team's best perimeter threat.

Obviously, better teams have more weapons than that, but every team has to have those types of players at a minimum. Selden and Perry are both auditioning for role 3 as the offensive side of the equation. Unfortunately for Wayne, he doesn't do enough off the dribble to make himself a huge part of the offense. Since he also can't fill another role, he makes himself expendable.

Van Vleet as a PG is just asked to defend and handle the basketball. Scoring from your backup PG is a bonus. If he hits a three every now and then, that's found money. Guys have carved out 10 year plus careers playing backup PG. It's the best job in sports.

@justanotherfan I guess he could end up being like Hinrich

I think it's kind of amusing to go to other teams boards and find they deem it necessary to post thread about Perry and Wayne on THEIR BOARDS. Little Envious - -Jealous maybe? lmao. Finding it on that sweet Kentucky Rupp Rafters such a joke. They can't find enough to talk about? - - Course we all know they hate KU and talking smack and ditchin on Perry - - STILL - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY