Nets on brink of acquiring Deron Williams!

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  1. OneSport3

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    According to the infamous Woj, the lastest breaking rumor is New Jersey acquiring DERON WILLIAMS for Devin Harris and Derrick Favors!!! Rumored to be a 3-team deal.
     
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    Interesting. That would screw us though.
     
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    Insane deal for the Nets. The Jazz added yet another PF and downgraded at PG. Two first round picks is nice.
     
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    As a Blazer fan, that would be a dream come true. Both Denver and Utah get considerably worse in the same week? Cho may as well kick back and let every team in the West blow itself up.
     
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    If that happened, that's quite a score for New Jersey. Deron > Carmelo.
     
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    It makes Utah weaker, which is good for the Blazers.

    There is a trend developing of big name west all stars heading east.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Wow. Stunner.
     
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    The best part of this is that Woj and Spears never even mentioned a whiff of this trade being in the works, and now Woj is going to claim he "broke" the news.

    Somebody on the Nets payroll was feeding them the Miller/Harris stuff as a smokescreen, IMO. Now that they got the deal they wanted all along, they give poor Woj the "exclusive" on it.
     
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    Are you being sarcastic???
     
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    Wow, I didn't think Utah would actually deal Deron Williams. Now I'm sad Portland wasn't able to put something together. This is a player I'd have added Oden into a package for.
     
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    Does Sloan come back out of retirement?
     
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    Not at all. I thought Andre for Harris was our best potential trade option. Now it's off the table.
     
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    I have to think for PR reasons, there is no way they could have dealt Deron to us, any more than we could have dealt Clyde to the L*kers (they made a better offer for his services than did Houston). Utah's fans (quite rightly) HATE us.

    This deal makes me quite happy.
     
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    My position exactly.
     
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    Utah gets significantly worse for the time being. We have yet to see what those picks are, and Favors is coming into a frontcourt already crowded with Millsap and Jefferson. Harris is a huge downgrade from Deron Williams.
     
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    I want Williams!!!

    Miller, Pryz, Batum and ___ for Williams? But as others said, no way Utah trades him to us.
     
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    They may not have called this trade early, but they were reporting all day yesterday that Nets were determined to move Harris before the trade deadline . . . looks like that was true.

    Basically some players rumored to be on the move are indeed on the move. I think it is cool that general public these daysget to know the buzz about which players are being shopped with constant updates.
     
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    Now, if OKC will only trade Durant to the Pacers for Roy Hibbert...
     
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    I understand that, but it doesn't help us beat OKC, LA, or San Antonio. I guess it's fine if our goal is to finish 4th in the Western Conference.
     
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