Posts tagged ‘trading deadline’

The West shakeup continues but the Spurs didn’t make waves, more of a ripple by grabbing Kurt Thomas for Francisco Elson (backup center, 2nd year player), Brent Barry (still out with calf injury) and a 2nd round pick. Not that it matters too much since SA wasn’t going to trot out Elson for 48 minutes, but he is averaging right around 13 points and 12 boards per 48…could work out for Seattle…um OK City.

Ron Artest could be on the move too away from Sacramento. The Kings blog/Artest trade watch is here. Interesting tidbit about that JKidd trade is the Mavs had to cut former Nevada star Nick Fazekas to fit everybody on their roster. Fazekas is 11th the NBDL in scoring this year at 19.1 and could be a late desperate pickup for Ainge if injuries haunt the C’s down low.

So the Knicks played like Isiah Thomas business/coaching skills made them tonite: a 124-84 thrashing at Philadelphia. Make that two 40 points losses in games on the road in division (there are only 8 for the whole year). I’m sure the Daily News will have a great back page for this tomorrow morning on the right side (or they better!). Some numbers from the game for NY: 23 turnovers, 23% 3-point shooting and defense that St. John’s could play better: Philly shot 57%! (49-86) and Andre Iguodala had a +41 in his 31 minutes of playing time. New show tomorrow (Thursday) to break down the Celtics and Warriors as well as some talk from that Nuggets game.

Also, congrats to the Pats - the vaunted bye week is next. Even not at their best they’re the best.

From the NBA, Yahoo’s got a recap of a NY Post article about breaking up the Nets. Personally, I would give them another shot (why not?) and maybe add somebody for a run because they should be right there. Other players that have been mentioned in rumors recently that we haven’t mentioned on the show…Sam Cassell (because the Clippers stink but still unlikely), Damon Stoudamire (or he could be bought out thus no trade required), and others the Celtics would never think of getting like Tracy McGrady or Jermaine O’Neal…

There’s still a month til the deadline and I figure we’ll know how much the Pats won by in the Super Bowl (or lost - because it could happen) before we see a new player donning Green.