Another HUGE Mavs trade

[Civilian]

I'm watching the Mavs-Spurs game right now, and according to our sideline reporter, a deal between the Mavs and Blazers that would send Sheed/Wells to Dallas and Finley/Jamison to the Blazers is pending league approval.

I'll check the web for a published story.

[paul_pierce_the_truth]

This works well for Dallas, bringing Wallace's contract down there and I think Wells makes only around 7 and thus allowing Dallas avoiding major luxury taxes when resigning Steve Nash.

Wallace is not much of power forward, no more than Jamison is.
He is not a big rebounder, but running the ball will get him some nasty dunks and Sheed can shoot the 3-ball, Wells is just is as good as Finley, certainly on defense, where Finley brings nothing.

Portland was just about to free-up all their cap money with Dale Davis and Rasheed Wallace becoming free agents, could have made a bid for McGrady or someone like this. Oh well guess they want to try to win some games now.

[BIG GREEN]

Great trade for dallas if sheed can stop acting like a gimp. I hope it happens cause dallas will become a better team and we'll see better basketball games this season.

[Andrew]

You don't see this very often - a player involved in two blockbuster deals within the space of a few months. Makes you wonder why Dallas bothered trading for Jamison in the first place. Given they already had their fair share of scorers, it did seem odd. A trade they got the best of, but an odd trade nevertheless.

I agree that this trade works out pretty well for Dallas. Not too bad for Portland either.

[nublu01]

wow.... it's been too crazy the past several months, with so many star players trading jerseys.... just cant imagine sheed in mavs uni....

[The Big Racist]

Would be funny to see this trade happen cause I just simulated in NBA live 2003 franchise mode and Jamison ended up in Portland and thenI thought that it would be cool to see him in Blazers uni and woila it may become true ...does this mean if this happens then Sheed will come off the bench?

[Andrew]

If this trade goes down, I believe the Mavericks should go with this starting five:

C-Sheed/Nowitzki
F-Nowitzki/Sheed
F-Walker
G-Wells
G-Nash

[Shep]

this trade would favour dallas.

[Old School Fool]

Here it is

C-Nowitzki
PF-Walker
SF-Sheed
SG-Wells
PG-Finley

They can pull a Cleveland Cavaliers/Los Angeles Lakers

[Dramacydal]

dirk wont play center, hes even more like a sf than a pf, i think sheed will do that

[Shep]

umm dirk nowitzki played center all season in seasons '01, and '02

[Dramacydal]

maybe but he aint the type of center, half of the real centers gon crush him...but anyway, if he likes gettin crushed let him play center, i dont care

[paul_pierce_the_truth]

http://www2.realgm.com/src_wiretap.php

I hope this goes to the page with Rasheed Wallace on it.

Cuban says it's not true.

How about Antawn Jamison and Michael Finley for Tracy McGrady and Grant Hill?

I understand Grant Hill has many dollars and years still coming, but maybe he will retire or comeback, or Cuban a Billionaire could just buy him out, release him and have the money free for Steve Nash.

Also obviously adds McGrady, which would make matters much better for him to freely do his thing, currently teams are letting everyone else on Orlando shoot and triple team and trap McGrady, using box and one zones among other tactics.

For Orlando

G-Lue
G-Finley
F-Jamison
F-Gooden
C-Howard

For Dallas

G-Nash
G-McGrady
F-Walker
F-Nowitzki
C-Fortson

or the smaller line-up with Najera in and Fortson out.

It seems as though they get a little thin though.

But adding McGrady might be exciting for everyone.

Just a thought, not very realistic maybe, but I tried.

[Wall St. Peon]

Why would anyone think of starting Fortson at center? Yeah, he's bulky and a good rebounder, but regardless, it's a stretch to play him at power forward in the west because he's only 6'7....

[Nick]

I hate Portland.

But atleast Zach Randolph will get some good minutes. He wil play great for Blazers. Can't imagine Jamison in a portland jersey, i can imagine sheed in a dallas jersey though.

Welp, i think it's good for both teams, they should do it.

[paul_pierce_the_truth]

Why would anyone think of starting Fortson at center? Yeah, he's bulky and a good rebounder, but regardless, it's a stretch to play him at power forward in the west because he's only 6'7....

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/danny_for ... l?nav=page

6'8" 260lbs - Position: C

What is he a small forward?

He averaged 11.6 rebounds in 28.8 minutes in 2002 when he last played regularly, add in the previous season when was injuried after 6 games and it's:

82 games 997 Rebounds 2519 Minutes for 12.2 rebounds in 29.5 minutes.

If you'd rather start Dirk I can understand on the offensive end, but on defense it's worse than Fortson and
Dirk is 7 feet tall, height means nothing when you are as big as Fortson, it's a few inches.
People really overrate height.
Wes Unseld was 6'7" could he play center?

If Fortson were a mere 2 inches taller he would be 6'10" and somehow that makes sense, how much does 2 inches change things under the boards?

Malik Rose is 6'7 and 255lbs getting 9.7 rebounds per game. I know he's not a center, but he plays some center, he guards Shaq all the time.

I don't know why anyone would just look at a guy and say "He's 6'7" he can't play center. (or power forward I guess)"

Ben Wallace by the way is 6'9" 240lbs. He's one inch taller than Fortson, I guess Fortson is just too small.

Dallas agrees with you Shane, but Don Nelson loves small ball.

Maybe you like Shawn Bradley or Ed Najera?

I would play Fortson at Center if I were Nelson, but he just loves offense too much.

This is only my point of view though.

[Scary Hedo]

Cuban says trade report is not true http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/sports/basketball/7220991.htm

[air gordon]

i'm sorry this is out of place but i didn't want to wait for another page to load like i just did... maybe its just the cpu's i'm using... but whenever i open up the nba live topics, the pages take a noticeably longer time to load then other sites

[BIG GREEN]

Well things like you having an over 300k signature certainly helps that problem now doesn't it? :wink:

I think the rule should be added where signatures over 50k is a little too much. That way 56k people should have less trouble loading the pages.

[air gordon]

i thought it would also but at the realgm forum, other users have bigger sized sigs yet it loads faster. just wanted to put it out there...

btw- the player that's ruining the league, ron artest, has just as many technicals as i do in the nba, even after DC knocked his tooth out. i think KG's leading the league right now in T's. HA!