Comments on: The Devil is in the Details… But So is Salvation

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:44:33 +0000

At the same time, you never know what Kevin McHale might consider a good deal. The worse the offer might do is give Minnesota leverage to force Boston to include more in the deal. Maybe Rando and more future picks.

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:42:47 +0000

Jon- It seems like Minnesota is very high on Al Jefferson and might not agree that the Knicks’ offer includes more talent. Especially in the context of their new rebuilding project. Jefferson and Green are young and atheltic with the skills to develop all-around games. They’ve both been putting up good numbers on a miserable Celtics team. Crawford and Curry, on the other hand, are young vets with gaping holes in their games.

By: Z

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:12:18 +0000

Maybe Isiah had been working on a trade for KG, and when (if!) KG acquiesced to playing in Boston, that was when he went ahead and signed Chandler, signaling the pursuit was over.

Isn’t $25 million a year over the max salary? His old contract was grandfathered, but are all future ones too?

This takes the focus off dirty refs for a while too. Could Stern’s hands be on this?

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:19:38 +0000

“Multiple sources close to the situation told DraftExpress Sunday that the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves have come to terms on a trade exchanging Kevin Garnett for a package including Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair, and Theo Ratliff. The exact details of the trade aren?t known at this point, but it is believed that the deal will be completed shortly with similar parameters.

This deal has been rumored for most of the summer, but according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation, the main hold up had been the negotiation of a contract extension for Garnett. According to this source, Garnett?s camp is asking for a 5 year extension worth 125 million dollars. Whether or not the two parties have altered the initial proposal or agreed to it is not known, but apparently some accord has been reached. Garnett has an opt-clause in his contract for next season that he has essentially been using as leverage to get traded and secure his financial future with the team that acquires his services. ”

http://www.draftexpress.com/blogs.php?blogid=8

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:01:18 +0000

so if you’re Isiah and you hear that proposal, do you offer something like Lee, Curry and Crawford for Garnett?

Garnett, Zack, Balkman, Q, Marbury

Morris, Chandler/Jeffries, Nichols, Mardy

Nate, Malik, Fred Jones, Dickau, Jerome James

that’s less salary flexibility than Boston is giving them, but definitely more talent. Lee, Foye and Corey Brewer is a nice core to start rebuilding around, plus Lee could help Brewer adjust to the league. the other benefit of this deal would be that it would force Owen to keep watching Curry if he wanted to see Lee. :)

Steph and Garnett reunited with one last chance to win together, who could resist that story? we also could be under the cap after 2008-2009, at least before Garnett signed an extension.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:52:14 +0000

yeah, I don’t think anything’s going to change on the court.

off topic:

strong rumors about Garnett to the Celtics for Jefferson, Rondo and Ratliff’s contract, that it may be announced as done very shortly.

Boston would have to include someone else to make salaries match, my guess would be Telfair, leaving Boston with Tony Allen and Gabe Pruitt at PG. Boston would have Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen then, all three of those guys would have no more excuses.

By: Z

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:12:17 +0000

Refereeing a game is very subjective. A foul should probably be called on every possession if all the rules are followed all the time. When a team scores unmolested, the defense is ridiculed for being porous.

I don’t think the way games are called can be changed. In fact, to make any changes to the way games are called all but admits that the old system was flawed, invalidating all that came before it was changed.

Instead the league will need a transparent system of accountability. I have no idea how to implement that, but again– it’s Stern’s problem.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:10:57 +0000

Stern’s gonna have to change some of the superstar treatment in the NBA, instead of having different views on how officials call the game. For example, some refs “call it tight”, some “swallow the whistle and lets em play”. All refs should have an objective outlook into how to call the game, atleast uniform with all other refs, in not, the refs are still gonna suck.
NBA does check accuracy in calls and have high numbers, but its time to level the way the game is played. How the refs decide to call the game effects what some teams like to do, run and gun etc. Some refs let the game play out, some call alot of calls.
Time to get ALL the refs on the same page and call the game correctly.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:23:08 +0000

Stern and his ridiculously smug attitude resigning would be a nice start.

By: Z

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:52:22 +0000

The FBI doesn’t care about the NBA. It’s got a much bigger jurisdiction. The NBA is David Stern’s problem. The Feds want to use this ref to implicate larger organized crime characters and activities. Not players and other refs. After they are through with him, Stern will use their findings to do what he has to to restore faith and integrity to the game– it remains to be seen how hard a task that will be.