Tag: NBA trades

  • NBA Players Who Can’t be Traded

    NBA Players Who Can’t be Traded

    When a franchise commits its future to a certain player, it gives him a rare clause in the NBA world, the no-trade clause. Not that these teams might ever want to trade these players.

  • NBA Trades – Memphis Grizzlies Aren’t Sure About Rudy Gay

    NBA Trades – Memphis Grizzlies Aren’t Sure About Rudy Gay

    You rarely see teams thinking about trading their top scorers, but the Memphis Grizzlies, feeling they’re a piece away from being a feared NBA title contender, have been considering for quite some on looking for a trade partner that will take Rudy Gay, for the right pieces of course.

  • NBA Trades – Swapping Pau Gasol for Dirk Nowitzki

    NBA Trades – Swapping Pau Gasol for Dirk Nowitzki

    Maybe a trade that will send Pau Gasol to the Dallas Mavericks and Dirk Nowitzki to the Los Angeles Lakers is the answer to the problems of these two usually successful franchises.

  • NBA Trades 2013 – The Likely and the Bizzare

    NBA Trades 2013 – The Likely and the Bizzare

    As we’re pretty close to the second half of the 2012-2013 NBA Season, some likely players are mentioned in trade rumors, while names like Rajon Rondo and Dwight Howard fall into the bizarre.

  • Highly Likely Potential NBA Trades

    Highly Likely Potential NBA Trades

    December will soon be over, and that means trade rumors and phone calls will begin to pick up. Who are the biggest names on the trading block? Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers although his contract is a problem, Al Jefferson of the Utah Jazz although his defense is a problem, Andrea Bargnani who […]

  • Oklahoma City Thunder – James Harden Won’t be Missed

    Oklahoma City Thunder – James Harden Won’t be Missed

    As good as James Harden was last season for the Oklahoma City Thunder, he’s not as great of a player as he thinks he is. Breaking the financial boundaries for your third best player isn’t a no-no for a small market team, so the Thunder traded the 2012 Sixth Man of the Year to Houston Rockets for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and draft picks.

  • Dwight Howard – The Lakers Always Get Their Man

    It was just a question of time, I guess. Dwight Howard showing up in LA started all the rumors, but eventually, the became true. A four team trade also involving the Denver Nuggets and the Philadelphia 76ers finally moved the best center in the NBA from the Orlando Magic to the Los Angeles Lakers.

  • Dwight Howard – The Best NBA Center; the NBA’s most Hated Player

    Instead of being a marquee franchise player you want to build around, Dwight Howard has lost every shred of credibility over the last 12 months and the whole saga of trade me – keep me with the Orlando Magic, who built a team around him and tore it apart and fired everyone above him and somehow, are worst off than where they were before.

  • NBA Loyalty – It Doesn’t Exist

    Those of you who were surprised to see Steve Nash give up on a chance to end his career with the Phoenix Suns, instead opting to play for the Los Angeles Lakers for money and a better chance at at an NBA title were probably just as surprised as Ray Allen in Miami Heat uniform seems to be a done deal.

  • Steve Nash’s Statement Leaving the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers

    Don’t think it was an easy decision for Steve Nash to leave the Phoenix Suns. It’s all speculative, but I don’t think Nash is the kind of guy who simply puts 8 years of being in a place and connecting to fans and citizens behind him easily. But like it or not, Steve Nash will be a Los Angeles Lakers player next season.