Posted by djsunyc:
we can completely discard everything ever reported in the media. that's cool.
still doesn't change the fact that steph was traded many times over his career. but the most important one was from a suns team, at that time, the darlings of the nba and the "future" of the nba...fresh off giving him a max extension.
so forget everything else, he was traded from a suns team for "junk" with no knowledge whatsoever that they were going to end up with nash, kobe, or manu. they just gambled by trading away their point guard, the guy that helped them push the spurs the year before.
that's all we need to know.
kvh, tim thomas, glenn robinson...all guys traded many times. there's a reason these guys are always moved.
you trade FOR them expecting something...but ultimately they don't give you what you want so you move them along.
and this has NOTHING to do with anything reported or in the media.
lb has clashed with many players, especially his primary ball handlers, but every single one of them, to this day pretty much say that he's made them a better player. billups said it. iverson cried on national tv. marbury is somewhere between those two talent wise. maybe one day it will be him on tv crying about how lb made him a better player. but that door is closing pretty quickly.
Being trading a few times in your career is no indictment on who you are as a player...Billups bounced around this league, Rasheed bounced around, C Webb,Ben Wallace, Nash,J Kidd, Sam Cassell, etc...I could make an all star team of guys that have been traded a few times and are successful players in this league....
3/21/2006 12:10 PM
