MILWAUKEE – On his way out of Orlando, the general manager's words stayed with J.J. Redick: It's nothing personal, Rob Hennigan told him.

"But it is personal," Redick says now.

Perhaps this is a blessing and curse, because professional sports can break a ballplayer's heart this way. Redick's loyal this way. He immerses himself in the franchise's fabric, invests in the community. His two old coaches – Mike Krzyzewski and Stan Van Gundy – still get calls and texts on a regular basis.

"My wife Chelsea and I built a life in Orlando," Redick told Yahoo! Sports. "Listen, there was no anger [over the trade], but there was a little bit of disappointment.

"Part of me wishes I could've been there my whole career and been part of the rebuilding, part of the turnaround, and gotten back to the finals in my 11th or 12th year. That's the romantic in me, the idealist."

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And the pragmatist stood on the Bradley Center floor on

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The Houston Rockets have finalized an agreement to sign guard Aaron Brooks after he cleared waivers on Monday, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

Aaron Brooks averaged eight points for the Kings this season. (USA Today Sports)Brooks will sign the contract on Tuesday. The deal includes a team option for next season

Brooks agreed to a buyout with the Sacramento Kings on Friday.

Because Brooks was released before the midnight March 1 deadline, he is eligible to be on the postseason roster for another team.

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Brooks signed a two-year, $6.6 million contract with the Kings over the summer. He's averaged eight points in just 21 minutes a game this season. The Kings have given increasing minutes to young guards Isaiah Thomas and Jimmer Fredette.

Brooks had his best season in the NBA with the Rockets three years ago, averaging 19 points and five assists per game.

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NEW YORK – As LeBron James lifted higher and higher, he cocked the ball behind his head and reached back further inside Madison Square Garden. Pass stolen, Carmelo Anthony doubled over in angst, and James had come to deliver the perfect punctuation on one more peerless performance.

Higher and higher, James elevated in the final seconds of a virtuoso victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday. Higher and higher over purposeless debates of financial ransoms for pointless dunk contests, higher and higher over a sport that struggles to find context and comparison for the way with which his greatness has separated him, LeBron James floats above it all: untouchable and impenetrable.

These final minutes of a 99-93 victory were pure genius inside the Garden – the scoring and passing and devastating defense leaving him with 29 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists, three steals and a block. Out of an athlete for the centuries, this has been a season for the ages.

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The Miami Heat signed 40 year-old forward Juwan Howard to a 10-day contract.

Juwan Howard could return to the Miami Heat. (Getty)After playing the past two years with the Heat, Howard had remained unsigned until Saturday. He has stayed in shape and has been working out throughout the season.

The Heat created a roster spot at the trade deadline, sending Dexter Pittman to the Memphis Grizzlies for a trade exception.

Howard had been a respected leader on the Heat and was popular with teammates, coaches and management. He played sparingly in three Miami playoff victories on the way to his first championship ring in 2012.

Howard's greater role for the Heat came off the floor, where he was a trusted steward in the locker room. During the Heat's conference semifinal series victory over Indiana, Howard played the part of enforcer with Indiana Pacers forward Lance Stephenson. After Stephenson made the choke sign at LeBron James in a game, Howard later confronted him.

In 1,201 career games over 18 seasons, Howard has averaged 13.4

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With NBA teams uneasy about taking a risk on his past behavioral issues, free-agent guard Delonte West intends to report to the Texas Legends of the Development League on Monday, a league source told Yahoo! Sports.

Delonte West spent last season with the Mavericks. (USA Today Sports)West, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, had planned to join the Legends earlier in February, but never arrived. Since coming to realize the D-League is likely his only avenue back into the NBA, West has reconsidered, a source said.

Texas leaves Sunday for a two-game road trip to Los Angeles and Bakersfield, and West intends to arrive in Texas on Monday and join the team when it returns to Frisco, a Dallas suburb, on Thursday, a source said.

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The Mavericks released West after locker room incidents with teammates in the preseason. He played an important role for Dallas a season ago on a one-year contract. While the Legends are affiliated with the Mavericks, Dallas owner Mark Cuban has no intention of

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The Boston Celtics have signed guard Terrence Williams for the remainder of the season, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The league-minimum contract also extends to next season, but isn't fully guaranteed. Williams was on a 10-day contract with the Celtics and has appeared in three games, averaging 4.3 points and 2.7 rebounds in 14.1 minutes.

Williams, 25, was taken 11th overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Nets. He also has played for the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and in China.

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The proposed bid of 24-Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov and billionaire Ron Burkle to purchase the Sacramento Kings and construct a downtown arena has a chance to challenge a Seattle ownership's group to move the franchise.

Kevin Johnson has helped put together a bid to try to keep the Kings in Sacramento. (AP)Mastrov and the local investors' bid is "slightly lower," than the $341 million that the Chris Hansen-Steve Ballmer group has agreed to pay for the available 65 percent of the Kings, a high-level source involved in the talks told Yahoo! Sports on Thursday night.

"They have a shot," the source said. "It's still a long shot, but the bid will be close enough to cause real debate."

With a Friday deadline for submitting a counter bid to the NBA to attempt to keep the Kings from moving, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson unveiled Mastrov as the principal investor in the city's plan to foil the Maloof family's signed agreement to sell to the Seattle group.

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With the arrival of a clearance letter from the Chinese Basketball Association on Wednesday, the Boston Celtics will sign free agent forward D.J. White to a 10-day contract, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

D.J. White played for the Bobcats last season. (AP)White will likely be activated for the Celtics' Friday game against Golden State.

With the losses of Jared Sullinger (back surgery) and Jason Collins (trade) in the Celtics frontcourt, White could get an immediate chance to contribute.

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White played five seasons in the NBA, including 52 games in Charlotte a season ago. After going unsigned as a free agent last summer, he played the season for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Under an agreement with the NBA and FIBA, the NBA won't allow its teams to sign free agents until they've been cleared of contractual obligations overseas.

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