Zydrunas Ilgauskas

The Cavaliers met with Zydrunas Ilgauskas on Wednesday, hoping that he returns to the team.

“They told him they want him to come back,” said agent Herb Rudoy.

“He’s got a big emotional investment in Cleveland, in the city and the team,” Rudoy said. “On the other hand, he was not happy to be used as a pawn.”

Rudoy expects Ilgauskas to make a decision by this weekend.

Real GM

Ricky Davis

NBA player Ricky Davis is close to joining Turk Telekom Ankara for the rest of the season. The two parts, according to several Turkish media, reached an agreement.

The guard born in 1979 has played 12 years in NBA averaging 13.5ppg, 3.5rpg and 3.3apg in 736 games with Charlotte, Miami, Cleveland, Boston, Minnesota and Clippers.

HoopsWorld

Bostjan Nachbar

The last time Bostjan Nachbar played in the NBA it was 2008 and he was with the New Jersey Nets.

Then he decided to follow the money and head back to Europe, where he signed a three-year deal with Dynamo Moscow for $9.8 million Euros. He opted out of that deal the next summer and then signed a two-year deal with Efes Pilsen in Turkey.

Now, Nachbar apparently wants to get out of that because he is not enjoying his current coach. He is apparently waiting to see what his options are and does not rule out returning to the NBA next year.

Yahoo Sports

Mikki Moore

NBA veteran big man Mikki Moore had surgery in mid-December to fix a right heel spur and he is apparently going to be ready to go in mid-March.

So any team that did not get a big man at the trade deadline will have another opportunity.

The Denver Nuggets are expected to make an offer to Moore, who can sign with anybody till the end of the regular season and still be eligible for the playoffs.

His agent says four to five teams have expressed interest in Moore.

Yahoo Sports

Tracy McGrady

The Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks have agreed to terms that will expand the Houston-Sacramento deal into a three-way trade that lands Tracy McGrady with the Knicks, according to NBA front-office sources.

The Knicks will acquire McGrady and Sergio Rodriguez from Sacramento, sources said.

The Rockets get Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill and Jared Jeffries from New York and will have the right to swap first-round picks with New York in 2011 as well as take on New York’s 2012 first-round pick.

Sacramento obtains Houston’s Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey and New York’s Larry Hughes.

ESPN.com

David Stern

The NBA could lose around $400 million this year because of the flagging economy and a crippling labor agreement, according to commissioner David Stern.

Stern said that players’ union representatives negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement had been shown figures outlining the NBA’s current economic circumstances.

“And basically what those numbers showed, give or take, was this year we are projecting a league-wide loss of about $400 million,” he said.

Inside Hoops

Steve Blake

The Blazers are offering Steve Blake, Travis Outlaw and likely cash to Clippers for Marcus Camby, according to sources.

The Clippers are attempting to attach the contract of Sebastian Telfair in the deal, but Portland appears unlikely to agree to such a deal.

Telfair began his career with the Blazers.

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David Stern

The NFL’s party week was briefly interrupted by a sobering message about the league’s labour situation.

Now it could be the NBA’s turn.

The league’s collective bargaining agreement also will expire in 2011, and management and the players’ association will meet next weekend in Dallas as they try to negotiate a new one.

Indications are it will not be easy.

CBSSports.com, citing a person familiar with the document, reported that the first proposal the league sent the union last week called for a reduction of the players’ share of the basketball-related income from 57% to below 50%, as well as reductions in the length and amount of maximum value contracts, and elements of a “hard” salary cap to replace the current system that forces teams exceeding the cap to pay a luxury tax.

HoopsWorld

Antawn Jamison

It has been well documented that the Cavaliers’ infatuation with Antawn Jamison has been rekindled.

What has been underplayed is the reason behind it: LeBron James is the one driving the team’s pursuit of Jamison, according to a source, and Cavs GM Danny Ferry — as usual — is trying to appease the King.

FanNation

Stephon Marbury

On the other side of the globe from Coney Island, former Knicks star Stephon Marbury made his debut in China yesterday.

Marbury scored 15 points and had eight assists as his new team, Shanxi lost 102-101 to Dongguan Marco Polo. He had four steals and four rebounds, but shot 0 for 6 from 3-point range, according to China Daily.

“The time difference is a big problem,” Marbury told The Post via Skype yesterday.

“I wake up early, in the middle of the night, and stay up most of the day. It stinks. I have not played since the last game against the Magic [in the second round of the playoffs last May]. So I was tired. I played 28 minutes, all of the fourth quarter. Talk about being tired. Wow. It was fun being out there though.”

NY Post