Last year’s summer trades and free agent signings were amazing, putting together the 2008 world champion Celtics. Will this year’s trades have the same profound impact on the league? I really doubt it, but it will make teams closer to winning a championship in the next 2 to 3 years. Let’s start out with Elton Brand going to the Sixers, what a great signing. This has put the Sixers in contention to compete for a championship next year, my prediction is that the Sixers and Celtics will play in the Eastern Conference Finals in 2009. The Sixers were a good team before they signed Brand but this now puts them ahead of Detriot and Cleveland.
Jermaine O’neal is now a Toronto Raptor and Tj Ford is a pacer in a trade which could either help or hinder either team. The Raptors need to get rid of Tj Ford because he could not except his role of coming of the bench and when he started games he couldn’t help the team as much as Jose Calederon can. This tade is to be determined because it all depends on Chemistry and potential injuries for either players. Rasho Nestrovic was also including in the trade and he will be Pacer come November.
Baron Davis is looking like an idiot now that he signed with the Clippers who are now without the services of Elton Brand and Corey Maggette. Why are the Clippers trying to trade for Zach Randolph, do you really want a player who is just looking to get his own stats. Also why would New York pass up the Clippers potential trade, do the Knicks really think that Zach can play the up and down style that the new Knicks coach uses? Seriously both teams are stupid and need to really think about what they are doing or else they will be stuck in draft lottery hell forever.
On the smaller trade side, the New Jersey Nets acquired Milwaukee’s Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons for Richard Jefferson. I think it’s a good trade for both teams because the Bucks had two mainly power forwards and the bucks needed a consisent small foward. On the other hand the nets needed a bunch of role players to help the nets move in the right direction. There have been more signings and trades but these are the ones I deemed note worthy. I look foward to posting the future trades and siginigns when they are
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Sunday Smattering at Heard in the Cheap Seats // July 13, 2008 at 7:14 pm |
[...] of the week. It what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-agent coups in recent memory, the Sixers nabbed Elton Brand from Hollywood when he appeared destined to five more year of Clipper futility. Earlier this year, I wrote about [...]