Shane Battier gets married, opens restaurant, settles down.

If you?re looking for some interesting weekend reading material, ESPN has a series of pieces about general managers on its site.

Jeffrey Denberg starts it off with a review of the different types of GM?s.  For starters, there?s the president/GM who runs the franchise like a little Napoleon.    This includes people like Geoff Petrie and Jerry West.

Then there are the bottom line GM?s like Elgin Baylor and Bob Bass.  They run the team, but can?t spend much money.  Coach/GM?s like Don Nelson get to choose the players they coach, and a right-hand man GM like Billy King helps keep coach Brown in check.

There are several other items.  ESPN?s team of NBA experts ranks the GM?s.  While they may rave about MJ?s management capabilities, the Wiz? titular head, Wes Unseld, ranks last.

Frank Hughes does a piece on Jerry West, his pick for the top GM.  He describes how West targeted the Sonics to snag either Jerome James or Earl Watson, coming up with Watson.

Peter May gives a review of five of his top picks for GM.  He includes Kiki Vandeweghe in his top-five.  This pick might make a few heads turn, but he has good reasons for it.

There are also pieces on Rod Thorn and Geoff Petrie.

There?s been lots of talk about where Stromile Swift will start this season.  Not whether he?ll play the three or four position, but whether he?ll still be in Memphis.

The conjecture heated up during the summer when the Grizzlies added the number four overall pick (Drew Gooden) to last year?s number three pick and rookie-of-the-year, Pau Gasol.  Both players are power forward, the same as Stromile Swift.  Swift, of course, was the second overall pick two years ago.

Which is quite a logjam, and quite a concentration of high draft picks in one position.

Even Gasol weighed in, saying, ?Something has to give. There are three good players for one spot," Gasol said. "There's no way that the three of us can get (quality) minutes.?

But the odds of Swift being traded seem to be lengthening.  Grizzlies president Jerry West says that, ?To say that I haven't talked to people about him would not be the truth.  To say there's something serious would be a lie. There's nothing imminent.?

There?s also uncertainty about Swift?s health that may slow down any trade possibilities.  Swift was known to be a project when he was drafted, and proved to be a slow learner in his first season.  During his second season, he was in and out of the line-up with health issues.  During the off-season he underwent surgery on his right baby toe (same surgery Shaq had), and now has a pin in the pinky.

Teams that are interested in Swift ? including the Grizz ? likely will want to see what his value is be before making a move.

Ron Tillery of the Memphis Commercial Appeal adds that the logjam may be minimized somewhat by having Drew Gooden see a lot of his time at the small forward position.

Also, Gasol can play a bit at center since the team does not have a true NBA-ready center.

So expect to watch the situation develop through the fall, because there may not me any Swift player movement here.

Darren Rovell of ESPN.com says Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley is attempting to sell some of his interest in the Memphis Grizzlies.

When Heisley moved the team to Memphis, he put 49 percent of the stock on the market for local investors.  So far he has sold about 30 percent of it, and now owns about 70 percent of the team.

However, Rovell suggests he might be trying to sell more.  He says, ?There have been rumors that Heisley has been quietly shopping his majority share.?

Rovell adds that even if Heisley no longer had a majority share in the team, he could still be the managing partner. "There are a lot of owners that have it set up that way," Heisley said.