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      Rockets, Knicks and Kings complete major three-team deal

      February 18, 2010 /

      ESPN has the details.

      The Knicks will acquire McGrady and Sergio Rodriguez from Sacramento, sources said.

      The Rockets get Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill and Jared Jeffries from New York and will have the right to swap first-round picks with New York in 2011 as well as take on New York’s 2012 first-round pick.

      Sacramento obtains Houston’s Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey and New York’s Larry Hughes.

      This differs from the Rockets/Kings deal I wrote about earlier in that Houston will take on Jeffries’ contract next season and in return get a prospect (Jordan Hill) the right to move up in the 2011 draft. In addition, the Rockets get the Knicks’ pick in 2012. I love this trade from Houston’s perspective.

      The Knicks get to see if T-Mac has anything left in the tank and a decent young point guard in Sergio Rodriguez (6 points/3 assists in 13 minutes of PT for the Kings). More importantly, they free up enough cap space (~$30 million) two sign two big-name free agents this summer.

      I’m not sure why the Kings wanted to get the Knicks involved. They’re taking on Hughes contract for this season, so I guess it will save them the trouble of buying T-Mac out.


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      Miami making a late bid for Carlos Boozer?

      February 18, 2010 /

      ESPN’s Ric Bucher tweeted this 15 minutes ago:

      This is ESPN Rumor Central fodder for now but too tantalizing not to mention: 11th-hour talks are on that would send Boozer to Miami.

      Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski followed up with this:

      Utah and Miami have recruited Wiz to be 3rd team in Boozer talks. Wash would get cap relief out of it. Beasley not involved, source says.

      Michael Beasley wouldn’t seem like a good fit with Jerry Sloan, so it makes sense that Wojnarowski is saying that he’s not involved. But who would the Jazz get in this deal? Udonis Haslem? Jermaine O’Neal? Josh Howard? Al Thornton? Mike Miller?

      I’ve always thought that Miller was destined to play in Utah, but would he be worth giving up Boozer and the team’s shot at a playoff run this year? Maybe the Jazz would go for Miller and one of the Heat’s first round picks.

      Wojnarowski says that Washington will get salary cap relief out of it, but they only have one bad contract (Gilbert Arenas) on the books for next season, so he must be talking about relief this season. How about this trade which would send Miller and Dorrell Wright (and one of Miami’s first round picks) to Utah, Udonis Haslem to Washington (trimming $2.8 million from this year’s payroll) and Boozer to Miami?


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      Tyrus Thomas headed to Charlotte

      February 18, 2010 /

      Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports reports that the Bobcats have acquired Tyrus Thomas.

      The Charlotte Bobcats have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Chicago Bulls forward Tyrus Thomas for Acie Law, Flip Murray and a future first-round pick, sources said.

      Law and Murray have expiring deals, so the prize for the Bulls is the Bobcats’ pick, which will probably be in the late teens or 20s for the next couple of seasons.

      For Charlotte, this is a low-risk move with some nice upside. Boris Diaw hasn’t been great at power forward, and Thomas should have plenty of opportunity to prove himself along the Bobcats’ front line. It will be interesting to see how his personality meshes with Larry Brown’s. Thomas has the talent to be a very good power forward, so if he can keep his head on straight, the Bobcats may very well re-sign him.

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      Ernie Els calls out Tiger for being selfish

      February 18, 2010 /

      Tiger Woods is set to speak publicly for the first time in more than three months on Friday and at least one of his golfing competitors isn’t pleased with the appearance’s timing.

      From ESPN.com:

      “It’s selfish,” former U.S. Open and British Open champion Ernie Els told Golfweek magazine. “You can write that. I feel sorry for the sponsor. Mondays are a good day to make statements, not Friday. This takes a lot away from the golf tournament.”

      The timing is peculiar at best. Woods’ appearance will take place during the third round of the Arizona tournament, sure to steal attention away from the first big event of the year. The tournament is sponsored by Accenture — coincidentally, the first sponsor to drop Woods when the scandal broke.

      Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, said there was no intention to upstage Accenture’s sponsorship of the Match Play tournament. In fact, Steinberg said that Accenture “couldn’t have been more supportive.”

      You can draw your own conclusions about whether or not Tiger is trying to stick it to Accenture, but at this point, why would he want to rock the boat? He’s still very much entrenched in a sex scandal that has flipped his life upside down and the last thing he would want to do is draw more negative attention to himself or the world of golf. The timing of his appearance is bad, but that doesn’t mean he wants to upstage Accenture.

      That said, I don’t blame golfers like Els for being pissed. Tiger has obviously had the spotlight on him for a long time and even when he’s not playing, the spotlight is still on him and I’m sure that guys like Els is sick of it.


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      Amare Stoudemire to stay put?

      February 18, 2010 /

      It would appear so, according to CBS columnist Ken Berger.

      Suns are “going to hold” on Stoudemire, source says. STAT stays in PHX.

      Argh! Stoudemire has been on the block for over a year now and he still doesn’t get traded? If there’s such a thing as NBA blue balls, this Stoudemire trade has to be it.

      I blame Steve Kerr.


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