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Originally Posted by scottie
(Simmons is ESPN.com's "The Sports Guy", my favorite columnist on ESPN.com)
"At least the Celts gave up Al Jefferson for KG. How was the Gasol trade legal? If I kill my mailman and no one ever finds out, does that make it legal? Jerry West's old team (Memphis) gift-wrapped its best player for the team that once employed West for 40 years, taking back a pupu platter (Kwame Brown, a third-string guard and two crappy picks). This happened even though the Lakers' season would have been over without a center. Had this trade taken place in a fantasy league, it would have led to three weeks of vicious e-mails, crumbled friendships, guys quitting and maybe even a fistfight. In the NBA, it led to the Lakers being presented the 2008 Western Conference trophy by … yup, a crying Jerry West. The NBA, where chicanery happens."
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3422313 |
But this is asinine. According to some people, you can't judge the results of the trade until you see the big picture. One posted on CB claimed that Crittendon was the Lakers best pure athlete (maybe he forgets Kobe plays in LA) or that "you don't know what the draft picks will turn out to be".
Uh-huh. Simmons is a tool, but he's right. This trade doesn't happen on NBA Live, in Fantasy Leagues anywhere, or even with Basketball cards. Only in the NBA...