Highlights from his Hoopsworld article:<ul> [*]Devean, Slava and #37 pick FOR Bender, #17 [*]Blazers trading FOR Utah's #3 [*]Caron Butler and ending contracts FOR Jaamal Magloire, PJ Brown?? [*]Laker's #10, #17 (assuming Bender trade) FOR Hornet's #4?? [*]Lakers priority = Gerald Green [/list] http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_13115.shtml
I don't like seeing Green and priority in the same sentence for the Lakers. What can Green do for the Lakers? Kobe Bryant is the #1 option, Lamar Odom is #2, if they add Jamaal Magloire he becomes #3, so Gerald Green becomes the #4 scoring option? Seems like a waste, and Gerald Green is a piss poor defensive player. I especially don't like Green's agent and I'm not sold on the hype around Green. To put it in perspective, if Gerald Green was in last year's draft class he would have been the following high schoolers drafted .... Dwight Howard Shaun Livingston Robert Swfit Sebastian Telfair Al Jefferson Josh Smith JR Smith Dorrell Wright Dorrell Wright was drafted at #19, after him you had Jameer Nelson, Pavel Podkolzine, Viktor Khryapa, Sergei Monya, Delonte West, Tony Allen, Kevin Martin, Sasha Vujacic, and Beno Udrih It's possible Gerald Green wouldn't have been selected ahead of any of those players if he was eligible last year. He's also 19 years old, not 18, he was held back a year in school for poor grades and he's actually older than Marvin Williams. I still like the Bender deal, because the Lakers get the #17 pick out of it. The Butler deal + expiring contracts for Magloire and Brown is a pipe dream. The Hornets have plenty of cap space already and Jamaal Magloire is an All-Star center and still young. It makes no sense to trade a talented center for a talented shooting guard. The only way I see it happening is if Chris Mihm is included in the deal and I doubt Byron Scott would be too, thrilled with downgrading to Chris Mihm.
