Brooklyn played last night without Kevin Durant and James Harden , and Aldridge knows his role will eventually be to complement his All-Star teammates.
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So I thought tonight was perfect. We had a good balance of inside, outside. They doubled me tonight, so I was just trying to find the open guy. Buha expects the Lakers to match any contract offer extended to Horton-Tucker this summer, even if a rival team were to offer a backloaded contract using the Arenas provision. Speaking to reporters for the first time since signing with the Nets , big man LaMarcus Aldridge discussed his willingness to fulfill whatever role Brooklyn has in mind for him, according to Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post.
Aldridge started at center in his Nets debut tonight, a victory over the Hornets. He scored 11 points on 4-of shooting from the field, pulled down nine rebounds, and dished out six dimes. Aldridge did draw the start tonight. The team rested oft-injured veteran power forward Blake Griffin given that the game took place on the second night of a back-to-back. We have a lot of young guys. I think we can be good in the time coming. The Cavaliers will host the Sixers, the No. Earlier today, we relayed that a Dellavedova return tonight was looking like a possibility.
Dellavedova has been sidelined since December 12 following a major concussion. The reserve, who has a long history of concussions, was kept in protocols for an extended period of time. An emergency appendectomy on February 20 further delayed his return to game action. The year-old holds career averages of 5.
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Retweet 2 Share 0 Send via email 0. In case you missed it, the Nets signed forward Alize Johnson to a second day contract Thursday. Vogel anticipates using Gasol, known for his passing and jump-shooting, as a power forward on offense while the rim-rolling Harrell would function as a de facto center. Vogel plans to reverse their assignments on the other end.
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The team is since James suffered a high-ankle sprain on March 20, though the club boasts a solid With L. Sherrod Blakely of Bleacher Report. In the draft, the Chicago Bulls shipped Olden Polynice their draft pick that year plus a few other draft picks for Scottie Pippen. Pippen didn't amount to much in the NBA, just your average, run-of-the-mill Hall of Famer with six championships. Look through the Cleveland Cavaliers' history and you will find 10 times as many bad trades as you will good ones, and most of that is thanks to Ted Stepien who thought high first-round picks were overrated who needs James Worthy anyway?
However, they got the better end of this one, sending a second-round pick that ended up being Jeff Hodge yes the Jeff Hodge for Mark Price. Price became their point guard for the next decade and wound up being one of the better guards of the '90s. Bring this up to any Bucks fan and they will involuntarily twitch with rage, but back in the Milwaukee Bucks drafted Dirk Nowitzki. Later that same day, they traded him for Robert Traylor and Pat Garrity. Dirk went on to lead the Dallas Mavericks to the promised land and their first championship in team history while the Tractor didn't do the same for Milwaukee.
After three-and-a-half years in the league, Alex English was starting to establish himself as a good player, but he was not yet a superstar. In , however, the Indiana Pacers traded him and Carl Nicks for George McGinnis, who was a good player in his own right, but would only play three more years in the league. English would go on to lead the league in scoring twice and be the face of the Nuggets franchise for ages.
The 's Pistons were some of the toughest and meanest teams in the history of the NBA, thanks in part to the edge that Bill Laimbeer brought to the team. Detroit traded for Laimbeer in along with Kenny Carr for Paul Mokeski, Phil Hubbard and a few draft picks that turned out to be nothing.
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The Pistons would go on to win two championships later in the decade with Laimbeer playing a huge role in both of them. The first round upset of the Dallas Mavericks would have never happened if it weren't for a risky trade-deadline move by the Warriors. This trade made the Warriors a much more up-tempo team and brought Baron Davis away from the buffet table long enough to upset the Mavericks. The Houston Rockets had won a title in , but that doesn't mean they were content with the team they had, especially with Clyde Drexler on the block.
They traded Otis Thorpe and some table scraps to Portland for The Glide at the trade deadline in and ended up winning their second straight title thanks to it and to Michael Jordan taking a baseball sabbatical. What they got is a guy who is a top-three point guard of the '90s and the second-leading assist man in NBA history for a few years.
This may be the only case in the history of the NBA of the Los Angeles Clippers, realizing they had bungled a draft pick before anyone else realized it. They drafted Danny Ferry with the second overall pick in and, rather than seeing if the chubby white guy who couldn't do much of anything well was a complete mistake, they flipped him for Ron Harper. Harper played four years for the Clippers and helped them get to the playoffs in two of them, which is basically the same as saying he helped a homeless man get to the moon. Kobe Bryant for Vlade Divac—we've all heard this one before.
The Lakers have pulled off some fast ones in the past Pau Gasol, Wilt, Kareem , but never anything like the shakedown that was the trade for Kobe Bryant. He was drafted by the Hornets in and then traded a few weeks later for Divac straight up. All he did was go on to win five titles, so I'd say this trade is still too close to call. The Memphis Grizzlies don't have a very long history, and the guy who may be the best player in their history came to them via trade, so that makes this one an easy choice.
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The Hawks drafted him third in , but quickly flipped him after drafting him for Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Jamaal Tinsely. Pau would win the Rookie of the Year award in and go on to be one of the best scoring big men in the league. First off, I refuse to look at the LeBron James and Chris Bosh sign-and-trades as any form of trades, they were hoodwinks and bamboozles respectively. The Heat, meanwhile, got the most dominant center in the league and went on to win the Championship with Shaq down low. They failed to win anything in his rookie year, but the following year the Bucks traded Charlie Paulk and Flynn Robinson for Oscar Robertson and would go on to win their only championship that season.
The Minnesota Timberwolves haven't been in the league for a large amount of time either, but they have had their fair share of success. After frustrations in the playoffs with Kevin Garnett as their franchise player, they decided to go out and get him a legitimate starting point guard in Sam Cassell. For Cassell, all they had to give up was Anthony Peeler and Joe Smith, and Cassell would be the player to man the point in their run to the Western Conference Finals in The New Jersey Nets had Stephon Marbury as their starting point guard for a little over two years, and in they had had enough.
Kidd would be the face of their franchise for the next six years and would lead them to back-to-back trips to the NBA Finals as soon as he arrived, coming up short both times. Their biggest one recently was a trade where they sent P.