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Associated Press
July 31, 2010

News and notes from around the NBA on Friday:

Josh Howard: Josh Howard has signed his one-year contract to return to the Washington Wizards. The deal signed Friday could pay Howard as much as $4 million if he meets certain incentives. The two sides reached agreement on the contract Wednesday night. Howard was acquired in a trade with the Dallas Mavericks on Feb. 13, but he played in only four games before tearing a ligament in his left knee on Feb. 22. Howard had surgery in mid-March, with an expected recovery time of six to eight months. Agent Derek Lafayette says Howard is “ahead of schedule” but declined to say whether the forward will be healthy in time for training camp. Howard has averaged 15.3 points over seven NBA seasons.

Kevin Seraphin: The Washington Wizards have signed No. 17 overall pick Kevin Seraphin, who was acquired in a draft-day trade with the Chicago Bulls. Seraphin, a 6-foot-9 forward from French Guyana, spent the past four years playing for Cholet Basket. The French club signed him to a three-year contract in August, and he had to negotiate a buyout in order to join the Wizards. Seraphin was acquired from the Bulls in the trade that also brought veteran guard Kirk Hinrich to Washington. Under the NBA’s pay scale for rookies, Seraphin gets a four-year contract that guarantees him about $2.7 million the first two years, with the Wizards holding options for the third and fourth years.

Chris Bosh: After being called out as a quitter by his former general manager, Chris Bosh says he “put his heart and soul” into the Toronto Raptors organization and never gave up on his team. In an interview on Rogers Sportsnet on Thursday night, Bosh responded to allegations made by Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo on Toronto radio station FAN 590 that claimed the All-Star was “checked out” late last season and chose not to play some of the Raptors’ final games. “I play this game as hard as I can every time I step on the court,” Bosh said. “On the back of my jersey it says ‘Bosh’ ... The Boshes are hard workers. We have a lot of pride in what we do, in our jobs and in life.” The Raptors fell from a playoff position at the All-Star break into ninth place in the Eastern Conference at the end of the season. Bosh and former Cleveland star LeBron James then joined Dwyane Wade in Miami as free agents this summer. Bosh also claimed his decision to leave Toronto was at the end of a long process and not something he had committed to before the offseason. “Everybody thinks, ‘Oh, he was gone as soon as the season was over.’ It was the hardest decision I ever had to make. As different as another country is, it was still home for me. I had been there for seven years.”

— Associated Press




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