Merged: Cousins traded to N'Awlins (for some Cajun shrimp)

I think that is likely. Once it got out they were going to move Cousins then you had to do it quick as you certainly don't want to have to bring him back in after not being able to move him. That would be a disaster.

 

New Orleans was going to trade for Okafor if Cousins wasn't available and time was running out

 

I think another problem is the number of teams in need of his services are smaller than we think.

Sac wanted to make a trade now in order to tank for this years draft.

Teams who need to make a trade mid season tend to be those who are not doing well, which eliminates any team that does not want to screw with their chemistry. Boogie is risky for good teams.

And you can eliminate younger teams since Cousins has proved what he can do with young players......Not much.

So that leave teams that are not super young and who are not doing well. (like us)

 

Haha, you can't make this shit up!

 

Another gem by Vivek in the past:

 

Uhhhhh...

 

Sacramento should have done the Tpups thing. Let teams know they were trading Boogie, and given them a LOT of time to come up with an offer.

 

I immediately thought of Stauskas.

 

Kings making their vets available:
I'd do Biebs for Koufas (age 27) today. Would Save us about $2 mil next year.

Knowing the Kings, we could probably get a 2nd rounder, too!

 

Darren Collison. He would be an awesome backup point guard.

 

If you listen to the press conference, Vlade's rationale was literally that he thought the offers would decline as they got closer to the deadline because they had a better offer (his words, and presumably, his determination) 2 days ago that was no longer on the table by the time the NO deal went through.

 

That is Davis' new nickname. The Uterus Pattern.

 

Are you saying there's no such thing as objectively better deals and, by extension, objectively better players? I mean, I'm kind of sympathetic to the high bar to clear for something to be "objectively" better (some would argue there's never such a thing as "objectively" better), but I think a deal for, say, Karl-Anthony Towns would be pretty conclusively better than what they got, in the aim of building a stronger basketball team, even if they "liked" what they got more. I'm not saying they had that offer available (obviously, they didn't), but I think they could easily have turned down a deal that would have made their team better than the deal they took.

To make this simpler: I have no faith in their evaluation skills, so what they "like" carries little weight with me. That's what I'm saying.

 

I have no faith that any team ever loves a bad trade despite what they say.

 

That surely wasn't a factor. Thanks to a previous horrific deal, the 76ers have the right to swap picks with the Kings, so if the Kings successfully tank, the '6ers reap the benefit.

 

76ers are loving this deal for sure. if sac lucks into the top 3 the sixers will swap. so they get 2 chances to move up. and then they need LA to move out of the top 3. but they could easily end up with the #1 and #4 pick.

 

Philadelphia: where lottery picks go to get injured and miss their first season.

 

You saying CJ would be a good fit there?

 

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I'll try to write down the more pertinent stuff.

Grant said he is not at all going to miss all the Cousins BS like arguing with officials, getting in it with team mates, getting in it with the coach.