Mickael Pietrus has reached agreement on a one-year, veteran-minimum contract with the Toronto Raptors, agent Bill McCandless confirmed to RealGM on Thursday night. The deal will be made official Friday, McCandless confirmed.

"It came down, in the end, to choosing the team who liked him best," said McCandless.

USA Today first reported Pietrus’ deal with the Raptors.

In the end, Pietrus passed up five offers – from the Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs – due to the Raptors’ relentless pursuit. Recently, Pietrus rejected the Spurs’ offer of a contract guaranteeing just one month.

Pietrus’ camp has been in dialogue with the Raptors since the offseason, and Toronto general manager Bryan Colangelo has attempted to acquire the 6-foot-6 forward through trade in the past.

Dominic McGuire will be waived by the Raptors to make room on the roster, agent Mark Bartelstein told RealGM.

Pietrus, 30, has averaged 8.4 points and 3.1 rebounds in his nine-year NBA career with four different teams. Pietrus, who has been training in France for months, has established himself as a solid outside shooter and a top-tier wing defender when healthy.

Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti traveled to Stillwater on Thursday to watch the Oklahoma State Cowboys practice.

Presumably, Presti was there to scout Marcus Smart and Le’Bryan Nash.

Smart, a 6-foot-3 point guard, is averaging 13.4 points, 7.0 rebounds, 5.8 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.4 blocks through his first five games, bringing immediate leadership and a defensive mentality that’s rubbed off on those around him.

The 6-foot-7 Nash is a talented wing scorer who excels at getting to the rim and finishing in a variety of ways.

The Cleveland Cavaliers have signed forward Kevin Jones from the D-League.

Following the Call-Up, Jones was assigned from Cleveland to Canton.

Jones (6-8, 251, West Virginia) returns to Cleveland having spent the 2012 NBA preseason and training camp with the team. In two preseason games for the Cavaliers, Jones averaged 2.5 rebounds and 9.0 minutes.

As a member of the Charge, Jones has appeared in three games, averaging 27.0 points, good for third-best in the NBA D-league to go with 13.7 rebounds and 41.3 minutes.

The Cavaliers have waived Luke Harangody.

Jannero Pargo is on the top of several NBA teams’ radars and hopes to sign a deal soon, his agent told RealGM on Thursday.

“We’ve been getting calls every day, so hopefully we’ll get something done here soon,” agent Mark Bartelstein said.

Pargo averaged three points and two assists in seven games for the Washington Wizards this season before being waived on Nov. 15.

Since then, he has received interest from a number of organizations, and he could be the next available point guard to sign with a team following Derek Fisher's agreement with the Dallas Mavericks.

Pargo, 33, has made his mark in the league over nine seasons with shooting and providing offensive spark, leaving him a career average of 6.4 points on 35 percent three-point shooting.

The Dallas Mavericks have waived Troy Murphy to sign Derek Fisher.

Murphy was signed shortly before the start of the season.

Murphy averaged 4.6 points and 3.5 rebounds in 18.3 minutes over 14 games.

Derek Fisher will sign with the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.

Rick Carlisle announced the move following the Mavericks loss on Wednesday to the Bulls.

Fisher spent the end of the 12-13 season with the Thunder.

Derek Fisher is expected to sign an NBA contract within the next few days, according to sources.

Fisher is considering up to three teams.

Fisher finished the 11-12 NBA season with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Toronto Raptors are searching for depth at small forward with Landry Fields and Alan Anderson out for extended time.

Mickael Pietrus is now being strongly considered as an option for the Raptors.

The Raptors already have 15 players on guaranteed contracts.

The Denver Nuggets have promoted Pete D’Alessandro to Vice President of Basketball Operations and Mike Bratz to Director of Player Personnel.

D’Alessandro is in his third season with the Nuggets after joining the team in 2010 as advisor to the executive vice president of basketball operations. 

Bratz joined the Nuggets as the team’s scouting director in 2009. Prior to coming to Denver, he spent nine years with the Cleveland Cavaliers, serving as director of basketball operations and director of player personnel.

Masai Ujiri is general manager of the Nuggets.

Mike D'Antoni regrets not remaining with the Phoenix Suns when he decided to become the head coach of the New York Knicks.

"I shouldn't have gone to New York," said D'Antoni.

"I should have stuck in there and battled. You don't get to coach somebody like him [Nash] too many times. It's pretty sacred and you need to take care of it. I didn't."

The parting with the Suns had always been reported as mutual.

"No. It was me," D'Antoni admits now. "I initiated it and I probably shouldn't have."

The Knicks' had a plan to rebuild while pursuing cap space.

"We had a three-year plan and it was good," D'Antoni says. "There were good aspects of it. But it was better the other way [in Phoenix]."

D'Antoni became head coach of the Lakers after the team fired Mike Brown.