Random News Shit: NBA Trade Deadline Edition

1) Wizards Land Nene
Damn, bad times for Nene, he re-signs with the Nuggets at the start of the season and they ship him off to the 3rd worse team in the league. That's fucked up.

The actual trade was a three-team that sent Nene, Brian Cook and a 2015 2nd round pick to the Wiz, JaVale McGee and Ronny Turiaf to the Nuggets, and Nick Young to the Clippers. This trade really makes no sense to me for any team but the Clippers. They get a nice young scorer in Nick Young and all they had to give up was Brian Cook and a 2nd-round pick IN 2015! Meanwhile, the Nuggets get the dumbest player in the league in JaVale McGee just 3 days after this hit the net (even though the person who made the video seems to be just as unsmart as JaVale) and Ronny Turiaf, and the Wiz got Nene (who's always hurt), Brian Cook, and a 2nd-round pick IN 2015!!!

2) Lakers Trade Derek Fisher, Trade For Lil Duval Ramon Sessions
First the Lakers acquire Lil Duval Ramon Sessions and Christian Eyenga for Jason Kapono, Luke Walton and their 2012 1st-round pick, then they shipped Derek Fisher's corpse and the 1st-rounder they got from Dallas to Houston for Jordan Hill. I guess this makes the Lakers better, but nobody could ride the bench quite like Luke Walton. In fact, they should put his old jersey and a towel where he sits in memoriam.

3) Warriors Trade Stephen Jackson To Spurs For Richard Jefferson
Well damn, part 2 of the Stephen Jackson era with Golden State didn't last long at all.

4) Blazers Trade Gerald Wallace To Nets For Mehmet Okur & Shawne Williams
Mehmet Okur is still in the league? I'm dead serious, I thought he retired.

Anyway, good job by the Nets getting Gerald Wallace for scraps, but I doubt it will help them retain Deron Williams.

5) Blazers Trade Marcus Camby To Rockets For Hasheem Thabeet & Jonny Flynn
Speaking of players I didn't know were still in the league, the Blazers just traded for Hasheem Thabeet? They weren't disappointed enough in Greg Oden, they needed to bring in another failed big man? What the fuck?

But there Blazers weren't done there....

6) Blazers Fire Nate McMillan, Waive Greg Oden
Four moves by the Blazers and only cutting Greg Oden made any sense. Then again, tanking and bottoming out is really the only way to get better in the NBA, so maybe this is a great idea. Nah, whoever they draft will have a fucked up future like Sam Bowie and Greg Oden before him.

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Warriors Send Monta Ellis To Bucks

NFL players aren't the only ones on the move today as Golden State has agreed in principle to send Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh, and Kwame Brown to Milwaukee in exchange for Andrew Bogut and Stephen Jackson.

Now, I get why Milwaukee would do this trade, but why in the hell would Golden State? The Bucks get one of the NBA's best scorers while the Warriors got Stephen Jackson (who hated Scott Skiles and who the Warriors traded away in 2009) and Andrew Bogut (who always seems to be injured). I don't know, I don't get it.

And what I really don't get is why Orlando didn't do this deal for Monta? I don't know if that would keep Dwight Howard in town, but it's a hell of a lot better than when they brought in Vince Carter and Gilbertt Arenas.

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Random News Shit: NBA Headlines

1) Chris Paul Wants Out Of New Orleans
Welp Cleveland y'all can give all LeBron jersey burning and hate speech a rest for a second and deflect your anger at a new target: Chris Paul. If he had made this trade request weeks ago, Dan Gilbert and everything to get him in Cleveland and maybe LeBron stays. As great as his situation is now with the Heat, I'm sure potentially landing CP3 would've at least made him think harder about his "decision." So yeah, Cleveland, be mad at Chris Paul for asking for a trade this late in the summer.

Anyhow, I fully expect there to be no trade. Chris has little, to no, leverage with 2 years still remaining on his contract. But even if N.O. did want to trade him, he doesn't have a no-trade clause, so they could essentially send him to Toronto or Minnesota if they wanted to. I don't think they'd do that to him though, so my guess is he'll sit his ass right there and play out his contract the next 2 years.

2) Matt Barnes Signs With Lakers
Another new team for "Basketball Husband" Matt Barnes this year. This is Matt's 7th team in 7 years, he's like the Latino Jim Jackson. And at this rate he can coast to surpassing Jimmy's 12 teams (13 if you count the Hornets whom he was traded to but never played a game for) in 14 seasons mark.

Now Matt tweeted the news himself, but when he arrives L.A. he's gonna have to change that @Matt_Barnes22 Twitter handle because he won't be wearing that number for the Lakers. Twenty-two was Elgin Baylor's number and it's retired up in the rafters.

(Side note: Can we skip the regular season and go straight to the Heat-Lakers NBA Finals?? This match-up gets more and more intriguing by the day.)

3) Wife Of Bobcats' Stephen Jackson Robbed In North Carolina Home
Man, you hate to hear stories like this. It obviously could've been much worse, and that goodness it wasn't, but it must be a very vulnerable and infuriating situation for Stephen Jackson. Well at least his wife is alright.

4) Allan Houston Front-Runner For Knicks GM
And people actually thought LeBron James was coming to play for them?? Hilarious! Welp, this is better than the rumor they were bringing back Isiah Thomas lol.

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