Trade deadline day....here were the relevant deals....and how I felt
- Orlando gets Rafer "Skip to my Lou" Alston, Houston gets Kyle Lowry and Brian Cook, and Memphis gets Orlando's 1st rounder, Adonal Foyle, and Mike Wilks' corpse....Orlando gets their best possible fill-in for Jameer Nelson in Alston, but I am unmoved by this for them...looks good on paper and it's an upgrade from the Lue/Johnson pu pu platter, but this doesn't make them challenge the big 2.....I actually like the deal for Houston....but that has more to do with the fact that I really enjoy Kyle Lowry's game and he's not certifiably insane, which is an upgrade from other guys (and Skip, too) on that roster....
- The Knicks made 2 moves....Getting Larry Hughes from the Bulls for Jerome James, Tim Thomas, and Anthony Roberson.....and getting Chris Wilcox from Kevin Durant's team for Malik Rose's corpse.... Both deals make sense to me from their standpoint...Wilcox is an expiring deal that can also add some athleticism up-front for them, and though the Hughes deal doesn't save them any money, he could flourish in their up-tempo system and provide a legit scorer at the 2...
While we're on deadline moves....
- Tyson Chandler to the team Durant plays for....well, that deal isn't happening....in one of the weirdest developments I can ever remember, he was sent back due to a turf toe injury....that hasn't caused him to miss any games, and wasn't even mentioned pre-trade....just weird all around...New Orleans can't cut salary and the Durant-Westbrook-Green trio doesn't get their big-man cornerstone....
Other stuff...
- Tiger Woods is back....the fact that this is as big a story as it is is marveling to me.....just shows how much he means to golf and sports in general....but Tiger will return at the World Golf event (Match Play) next week....and he'll probably win it like usual....
- The Texas Tech-Mike Leach saga is over....Leach signs a revised deal to stay in Lubbock...makes sense for both...his personality wouldn't play everywhere and he's built them into a 9-win type team year-in and year-out...
- Nnamdi Asomugha signs the biggest deal in the history of the NFL for a DB....but he stays in Oakland...3 years, at least $40 million (varies on different sites)....best CB in the league right now...so he deserves it...but I would've high-tailed it out of Oakland...
- Franchise tags given: Julius Peppers, Dunta Robinson, Terrell Suggs, Max Starks, Bo Scaife....I won't pretend to know why teams do what they do on this stuff....the first 3 guys on that list....I understand....the last 2? Seem run-of-the-mill to me....
- In case you hadn't heard and are a Braves fan....Frank Wren went 1 for 2 on Griffey/Glavine when 2 for 2 looked inevitable...Griffey flipped to Seattle and without going into any rationale, I'm not hurt badly by it....but Tom Glavine is signed for 1 year and up to 4.5 million with incentives to be met....I'm still a little bit negative on the team for this upcoming year, but Glavine can't hurt as a flyer...EDIT: After looking at Glavine's incentives a little closer.....umm, they are like laughably attainable....and $4.5 million is too much when it's pretty much guaranteed to be reached even with subpar (or worse) performance
That'll do it for now....Enjoy
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