BillBlythe
06-26-2008, 03:46 PM
Whoa. The draft is tonight and so far I've heard 2 trade rumours. 1)that J.Oneal will be sent to Toronto in exchange for Ford, Nesterovic, and #17 and 2)Yi Jianlan is involved in a trade between Milwaukee and New Jersey.
Personally I don't care about the Oneal trade, but Yi going to NJ can only be good news for the Chinese superstar. He didn't want to go to Milwaukee in the first place and now he's in a city that maybe has more than 2 Asians. Hopefully he'll recover from his injuries and come back stronger than ever.
BTW, anyone watching the draft?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/sports/basketball/27nets.html?ref=sports
The Nets plunged into a full-blown rebuilding effort Thursday, agreeing to send Richard Jefferson to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-player trade. The Nets will receive forwards Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons.
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The trade was not immediately announced, but the details were confirmed by the agent for Simmons. The players must all pass routine physical examinations before the deal is complete. No draft picks are involved.
“There’s a good chance it’s going to happen,” Mark Bartelstein, who represents Simmons, said Thursday afternoon.
This is the second time in four months that the Nets have parted with an All-Star. They traded point guard Jason Kidd to Dallas in February. Vince Carter is the only remaining member of the Nets’ so-called big three. Kidd and Jefferson were the last key players left from the team that made the NBA finals in 2002 and 2003.
The Nets missed the playoffs this spring for the first time since 2001 and have obviously concluded that they needed a new direction. Yi, the sixth pick in the 2007 draft, averaged 8.6 points and 5.2 rebounds as a rookie. He is a versatile 7-footer but remains a work in progress after coming to the N.B.A. from China.
Simmons, a small forward, has been frequently injured the last two seasons but showed promise a few years ago. He averaged 16.4 points in 2004-5, his last season with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The trade of Jefferson should get the Nets substantially below the salary cap in 2010, when the free-agent class could include such superstars as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire and Chris Bosh.
The Nets own the 10th and 21st picks in Thursday night’s draft.
Personally I don't care about the Oneal trade, but Yi going to NJ can only be good news for the Chinese superstar. He didn't want to go to Milwaukee in the first place and now he's in a city that maybe has more than 2 Asians. Hopefully he'll recover from his injuries and come back stronger than ever.
BTW, anyone watching the draft?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/sports/basketball/27nets.html?ref=sports
The Nets plunged into a full-blown rebuilding effort Thursday, agreeing to send Richard Jefferson to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-player trade. The Nets will receive forwards Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons.
Skip to next paragraph
N.B.A.
The trade was not immediately announced, but the details were confirmed by the agent for Simmons. The players must all pass routine physical examinations before the deal is complete. No draft picks are involved.
“There’s a good chance it’s going to happen,” Mark Bartelstein, who represents Simmons, said Thursday afternoon.
This is the second time in four months that the Nets have parted with an All-Star. They traded point guard Jason Kidd to Dallas in February. Vince Carter is the only remaining member of the Nets’ so-called big three. Kidd and Jefferson were the last key players left from the team that made the NBA finals in 2002 and 2003.
The Nets missed the playoffs this spring for the first time since 2001 and have obviously concluded that they needed a new direction. Yi, the sixth pick in the 2007 draft, averaged 8.6 points and 5.2 rebounds as a rookie. He is a versatile 7-footer but remains a work in progress after coming to the N.B.A. from China.
Simmons, a small forward, has been frequently injured the last two seasons but showed promise a few years ago. He averaged 16.4 points in 2004-5, his last season with the Los Angeles Clippers.
The trade of Jefferson should get the Nets substantially below the salary cap in 2010, when the free-agent class could include such superstars as LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire and Chris Bosh.
The Nets own the 10th and 21st picks in Thursday night’s draft.