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| 4 - Anthony Tolliver
- PF, 6'8, 240 |
| Atlanta Hawks
- Signed as a free agenr in September 2012 |
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Date of
birth: 06/01/1985
Country:
USA
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Drafted
(NBA): Undrafted, 2007
Out of: Creighton
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NBA
Experience: 5 years
Hand: Right |
| Agent: Larry Fox (Larry Fox Services)
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 The best of what's left after what was the best of what's left has gone and is no longer left
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| 2010-08-21 |
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The best of what's left
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| 2010-07-30 |
Anthony Tolliver - Tolliver was an undersized rebounding centre in college who knew he needed to develop an outside shot to make it at the next level, and now that he's done so, it's the vast majority of what he does offensively. He's not a bad defender, either, albeit on comparably face-up power forwards and not when defending the post.
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2010 Free Agency, Preliminary Round
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| 2010-07-01 |
The following players were eligible for a qualifying offer, but didn't get one:
- Golden State = Anthony Tolliver and Chris Hunter
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Chicago's Last Resort Offseason Plan That Still Manages To Avoid Signing Joe Johnson
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| 2010-06-14 |
Anthony Tolliver - If the Bulls are still not convinced that they have satisfactorily alleviated their outside shooting concerns, then help does not necessarily have to be found solely in the backcourt. Tolliver was an undersized rebounding centre in college who knew he needed to develop an outside shot to make it at the next level, and now that he's done so, it's the vast majority of what he does offensively. He's not a bad defender, either, and if Golden State opts to keep him, Chicago could always turn to.......
Matt Bonner ......who is much the same. But funnier.
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Blazers sign Anthony Tolliver, Heat waive Shavlik Randolph
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| 2009-12-19 |
 After suffering their ten millionth injury, the Portland Trail Blazers were granted a roster exemption by the NBA, enabling them to sign a 16th player. They used it to sign Anthony Tolliver from the Idaho Stampede, who was arguably the best big man in the D-League. If you can really call him a big man, that is.
Tolliver played as an undersized centre in college, but is somewhat undersized for even the power forward position in the NBA, let alone centre. To counter this, Tolliver has developed a good outside jumpshot throughout his professional career, and it is now his calling card. Tolliver played some for the Spurs last season, but his jumpshot picked a bad month for a vacation, and he was waived before the contract guarantee date. He spent the rest of the year split between the D-League and Turkey.
I don't know why the Blazers felt that they needed a slightly small face-up power forward particularly badly, given that two of their healthy nine players are Dante Cunningham and Juwan Howard, who are much the same player if with slightly less jumpshot range. Some more conventional size might have been a better option for a team that currently only has Joel Przybilla at centre, in which ranks last in the NBA in points in the paint. But the Blazers also worked out Chris Richard and Courtney Sims for the spot, and yet clearly decided that Tolliver was the best. And BPA is almost always a good policy.
Inevitably, though, it will all be for nought, and Tolliver himself will probably get some kind of compression injury from sitting on the bench for so long. Such has been the Blazers's year.
(By the way, if any Blazers fans were wondering if Tolliver was eligible to be re-assigned to the D-League at any point; he isn't. Tolliver was on the Cavaliers roster for the first 36 hours of the 2007/08 season, and that tiny amount is enough to count as a year of NBA experience, even though he didn't play a single minute. Therefore, A-Toll has two years of NBA experience, which makes him ineligible for an already impossibly unlikely assignment. The extra year of experience also means he's going to get paid more, so that's good.)
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