It's an informal deadline. Trades have to be done by then to be announced before the draft. Otherwise, they have to wait until either both teams have made their selections in the 1st round or the first round and then they can be announced is over is my understanding.
Just because MCW won RoY doesn't mean he is actually that great. Watching him play, mostly at the end of the season, he was chasing stats and seem to have developed some bad habits. I think he will be a decent player in this league but never an allstar. Whoever goes #7 would have gone #1 in last years draft and with MCW being an old rookie all it takes is for Hinkie to believe that the #7 pick is more valuable to the sixers then MCW, which isn't that hard to imagine it being since they are still going to be sucking for a few years, and he wouldnt' be afraid to make the trade. Wiggins most likely won't be there at 3 so I think they take Exum at that spot.
"officially" announcing trades is basically waiting for the nba to announce the trade, yeah? whothefuckcares. i want my trades "announced" by woj and the like the second they are agreed to, i could care less about the "official" nba press release days later or what have you. if the worst thing that can happen is LMA wearing a bulls hat on the podium then whatever.
Yeah but is Smart better? I am just not sold on him. I doubt he will be better than Oladipo. (Who I would have taken over Bennett last year and Smart this year) He has great size for a PG, but in the NBA when they take away his drive and force him to pass or shoot a jumper, I am not sure how he will perform. At least with MCW he can pass it.
Shit, a lot of people would have taken players over Bennett. The day of the draft, people thought Bennett might slide to us at 10. That's how crazy the top of last year's draft was.
Judging by his performance, he shouldn't have been drafted at all. But you gotta give rooks three years to know who they are.
Although this summer I don't think we have cap space just to take a player Imagine if we had the cap space this summer that we had last summer. Big market teams ready to just dump any player if they can get Lebron.
It's more a cutoff than a deadline. You left off the back half of the quote... "two deals that could be done prior to Thursday's 2 p.m. ET trade deadline to change the draft order" I guess that would be meaningful but not significant?
Dwight Jaynes @dwightjaynes 24 Jun 08:19 ET Re LA trading Blake for LBJ: I'd suggest Aldridge for LeBron but I'm sure Blazer fans'd be outraged at just giving Aldridge away like that.
I can't stand Dwight sometimes. Is there anyone who wouldn't trade LA for Lebron . . . of course Lebron would never come to Ptd much less come to Ptd w/o LA. Dwight would also suggest LA for Boozer just to stir the pot and get hits to his article . . . so shut the fuck up Dwight.
