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The pace of free-agent signings and acquisitions has died down a bit in the two weeks since our last roundup , but teams have continued to add pieces here and there that they hope will either fortify their rosters for postseason runs, provide cost-effective and movable assets that could prove useful down the line, or maybe just help them spend up to the salary floor so that they don't get in trouble with incoming commissioner and noted taskmaster Adam Silver. While we wait for the two biggest remaining names to resolve their restricted free-agent status, let's take a quick look at the other signings made as free agency trickles down toward the end of the bench: *** • The Denver Nuggets and Nate Robinson agreed to a two-year deal, according to Yahoo! Sports NBA columnist Marc J. Spears . The 29-year-old guard will receive Denver's biannual exception, totaling just over $4 million, and will hold a player option for the second year of the deal, enabling him to opt out and re-enter free agency next summer if he so chooses. You can understand why teams didn't rush out to give Robinson a lucrative long-term offer. To some extent, the 5-foot-9 spark plug is what he is, an explosive scorer whose size will always make him a defensive liability, whose athleticism-dependent game figures to start to deteriorate a bit as he gets past age 30 and whose shoot-first mentality makes him a boom-or-bust player on whom you might not feel totally comfortable relying. That said, the flip-side of "he is what he is" remains true, too — Robinson is a hell of a scorer.
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