950, KJR'S Locked on Sports has learned that Damien Wilkins turned down a $16 million dollar deal from the Portland Trailblazers. Therefore, there must be another team that is offering Wilkins a big money contract.
The popular opinion around the league is that Atlanta may turn to Wilkins. The Hawks have made inroads to Joe Johnson, but the Suns have altered their roster to make sure they can pay Johnson what offer sheet he receives.
The Sonics are positing themselves to make sure they can match offers to Wilkins.
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23 comments:
wilkins would be a lot cheaper than joe johnson. atlanta sure has a lot of 6-6 to 6-9 players. jerry west collected a lot at memphis and it doesnt seem to have panned out as hoped. i assume atlanta are considering trading some. but maybe they are going to try to play small without a couple of these guys (marvin williams and josh smith) playing some at power forward? cant get any worse i guess.
harrington played about 40% of his time at pf last year but it sounds like he is also headed out the door like antoine walker did. when will they settle on a core? probably only after they change the front office dramatically.
i like gerald wallace. versatile.
chad ford is leaving to be a professor in hawaii on international conflict resolution.
has a law degree. being a prof is a softer gig, less vocal backtalk.
and yeah this site has come alive. and thanks david for participating more in the ongoing discussions of your topics and giving props to the growing number of contributors for their adds.
I don't think Evans or Vlade for harrington would get it done. Darko hasn't shown much yet, but I think being young and over 7 foot make him a much sweeter prospect. BTW Diezel, your boy Chad Ford is leaving ESPN to be a professor at BYU-Hawaii.
Atlanta is stacked at the 2 and 3 postions. That wouldn't make a lot of sense. Hawks and sense haven't gone well together, so maybe it'll happen.
I want Wilkins back, but I would have to draw the line at 3.6 mil/yr. I understand it's a stretch, but at some point the Sonics might have to pay more than they're were orginally prepared to do.
Wallace, Rush, and Dickau are okay players and may be upgrades over last year's bench. I would hope the Sonics could do better than those three. I'm going to guess that Jaric, Jones, and Watson won't be coming to the Sonics either. What about Brevin Knight? He has a height defiency, but makes up for it with his ball-handling, distribution, and defense.
I just added a post 4 down on the main page that is a numbers way to evaluate offensive players.
Sonics might be willing to do a Harrington or Radmanovic deal. Harrington only has one year left on his deal and is a terrific complimentary player.
I'm in total agreement with P2thaSmitty regarding Rid v.s Conroy in college, and I've got some numbers to back it up. In the last 2 years of Rid's collge career he had FGP of .468 and .432. Conroy's were .450 and .456. Rid's 3 point percantages were a staggering .441 and .382 to Conroy's .316 and .303. Rid had 176 and 218 assists to Conroy's 142 and 219 (though Conroy's assist/turnover ratio was slightly better). Rid's steals: 58 and 63. Conroy's steals: 20 and 27. If this were it, you could say that they were pretty close, with a slight edge going to Rid, but when you consider that Rid's points per game were 15.5 and 19.7 to Conroy's 12.3 and 9.4, it becomes pretty obvious who the better college player was. It should also be noted that Rid left as a junior, while Conroy played all 4 years. If Rid would have stayed for his senior season, he would have been a serious canidate for the Wooden.
Black -- Love having you on the board but can you keep the langugue radio clean. I want kids to be able to access and I have to try to keep it radio clean. Thanks.
eminem is the owner of 50 cent, isn't he? i mean 50 is eminem's protege under shady/aftermath records.
P2thaSmitty said:
'My vote, a sign Radman, then trade him before the deadline to Milwaukee for Gadzuric. They have Bogut to work with Pachulia and Booth at center, and can use a good SF. By mid-season they can probably do without Gadzuric, and will be motivated to get help at SF. It seems like a logical move, if any sign and trade will happen.'
wtf?! gadzuric? please. you can get way more talent than dan gadzuric out of UCLA for radmanovic. i don't even need to argue how retarded of trade idea that is. the sonics would get raped in that trade.
race, the color of skin, nor a person's creed should effect how people should judge players. it's ridiculous after reading these uneducated posts.it's like you idiots are talking straight from your asses. don't waste people's time by posting that garbage. I just hope that mr. locke would delete some of that crap, as a minority i think it's plain stupid to have to read some black guy diss white players or some white dude taunt some black dude or whatever. You kids are i-d-i-o-t-s
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Smitty-
"My vote, a sign Radman, then trade him before the deadline to Milwaukee for Gadzuric. They have Bogut to work with Pachulia and Booth at center, and can use a good SF. By mid-season they can probably do without Gadzuric, and will be motivated to get help at SF. It seems like a logical move, if any sign and trade will happen."
That would not work for the Bucks. Thay have D.Mason and will sign B.Simmons very shortly. The Bucks have a decent team.
Smitty-
I'm for nearly any trade that would send Radmanovic and bring us back a big man that can play. But, the Bucks would be one of the last teams to do this trade. They have three high-priced 2/3 players(Redd/Mason/Simmons). That means they have to divide up 96 minutes (32 min/player) between those players since they can't play the 1/4/5. In addition, they may sign Toni Kukoc for whatever reason. If they sign Pachulia they'll have at least four centers on the roster. Most likely, you'll see Bogut backup J.Smith at PF. Last year they had K. Van Horn(Radmanovic clone) and I'm pretty sure they don't want him back. While Radmanovic may have value for the Bucks in that he's a better 3 pt shooter than their bigs, this wouldn't make the team better. Maybe, if Radmanovic was a PG, but I don't think you would argue that point.
Black,
how come you're still blogging? I thought you were fed up with KJR being racist? You said you were no longer going to blog on Locke's website. Anyway, have you got up off your chair to help the inner city kids do well in school so that they can go to college and become great doctors, lawyers, or businesspeople? I hope that you have black because the more you disrespect people who have helped other people like Lance Armstrong, the more you prove to me that African Americans are more about "what have you done for me lately" than what can I do to better myself so that I can contribute to my community?" As a fellow brother we have to start making our world better instead of continuing to use being black as a crutch. Being an African American is not only about being proud but also doing what we can to further our cause just as Dr. King would have wanted. Make peace black, not hate.
Regarding the Milwaukee Bucks: They cannot immediately trade Dan Gadzuric, given that they'll have signed him to a contract this off-season. Besides, the Bucks have no need for Vladimir Radmanovic, since they've got Bobby Simmons, Desmond Mason, Michael Redd, and Jiri Welsch already plugged in at the swing positions.
Anyhow, as it concerns Radmanovic, the best idea is to sign-&-trade him to a team that is in need of a starting small forward, such as the New Orleans Hornets. As it is, Hornets' power forward P.J. Brown would be a good option for the Sonics at center, as Brown -- who is owed $16 million over the next two years -- ranked 15th in rebounds per game (9.0) & 9th in offensive rebounds per game (3.2); also, he was extremely good from the free-throw line (86.4%).
AK,
There is no way that the Nuggets are going to make that trade. In fact, they probably wouldn't even think about Radmanovich and Murray for Nene. I would love to see the Sonics make a run at Nene, but now they have resigned Ray for all their cap space, they won't have the room to go after him next offseason.
While I'd love to see Nene, we don't have the resources to get him. Let's try to keep the trade suggestions rooted in some semblance of reality.
AK,
Excellent choices for free agent pickups. I like Mo Evans like you do. I think he could flourish in the right system with the right amount of minutes. I've always been a Jon Barry guy. He's like Voshon Lenard in that he plays hard, makes smart plays and shoots lights out.
Brevin Knight is a nice savvy veteran. My brother lives in NC and got to see a lot of him play. He's surprised there isn't more buzz on him.
While Karl may have soured on Nene, Vandewege isn't going to give him away for nothing. Big men have lots of value in the league and Kiki knows that. He already turned down a sign and trade offer that had Nene going to Sacto for Mobley. If he's not taking Mobley who the Nuggets needed, he's certainly not taking Murray and guys in Europe.
It would probably take a young starting swing player and a draft pick, or they would use Nene and someone to get a superstar player in return. Realistically, the Nuggets probably need another point guard as well because Andre Miller has morphed his game into a 2 playing the 1.
All the talk about Conroy is nice, but he decided to go on the Lakers summer league team when the Sonics offered him a slot. I think its fair to say he'll go to camp with them and more than likely won't be coming back to Seattle anytime soon.
Will Conroy is a nice college player and I believe he has enough intagiables that he could make the league. However, he is just another nice college point guard. The idea that he is on par at this moment with guys in the NBA is flat out laughable.
They should have drafted NATE ROBINSON!!!!!!
bIG MISTAKE FOR THE SONICS!!!!!!
walker is a good passer but he pulls a pretty modest assing rating at 82 games.
and i checked when he left boston, team assists went up. and when he went to dallas, team assists were up but are almostly totally explained by nash's own improvement of 1.5 assists per game. and the year he spent in atlanta assists were down slightly compared to the year before him.
he isnt the only factor that changed in those places of course but my point is that he seems to make a share of the assists, larger than normal for a forward, but he doesnt seem to really increase total team assists.
but i appreciate his ability to pass and it would be a reason to consider him, especially if they dont have a stong second point guard. maybe he could help run the second unit from the post some.
and lewis and radmanovic arent that much help at passing.
that should be passing rating in the first line. lol
i meant to put the walker comment in the comment section of the next higher article
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