Webber misses game for short-handed Kings with sore knee

January 11, 2005

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Chris Webber missed Sacramento's game against Denver on Tuesday night with a sore left knee, leaving the Kings with just nine players in uniform.

Webber missed his third game of the season with soreness in his knee, which still hasn't fully recovered from microfracture surgery after the 2003 playoffs. Webber, who missed all but 24 games of last season following the surgery, was scratched from Tuesday's lineup moments before game time.

Webber, a five-time All-Star, leads the Kings this season with 20.9 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, along with 4.9 assists.

If he came cheaply maybe but he can't come cheaply, his contract is crazy. I'm solidly convinced we dont need him. Not that he couldn't help, but I don't think hes what we need. The list of players we need is getting shorter IMO because we need a shot blocker badly.

None of our bigs can jump. Nazr gets in a good position and jumps for the block, but he just doesn't have the hops that are neccasary. We need any player who fits this description:

6-10 or larger (nazr fits this)
shot blocker
rebounder (nazr fits this)
intimidator

Package Nazr in a trade for a player like this. We absolutely NEED this because we cannot keep people out of the paint. No one in the league can guard steph, but we have watched Shaq and Big Z do a good job of keeping him out of the paint most of the time. I can't wait to see how Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler perform against us. I am slowly beginning to think either of them would be perfect for us, although I still like Eddy Curry better.

Dalembert and Swift also come to mind.
As much as I hate to say it, Camby would be great for us as well.
WE HAVE TO GET ONE OF THESE GUYS!!!!!
or someone like them




[Edited by - killa4luv on 01/12/2005 07:30:50]

As far as I am concerned, as long as we won't have to let go of: Marb, Nazr, Sweetney, Ariza, JYD, we can afford to do this trade. One thing is for sure, Webb has at least three good years left in him. With the right talents around him, this Knicks team minus Lenny and Kurt Thomas can compete with the best of them. For sure what happened last night would not have been if Webb was with our squad.

Marb, Houston or Crawf, JYD for energy and defense, Webb, and Nazr

Brewer for defense, Penny if not traded, Ariza for defense, Sweetney, and Vinny

that right there would be a pretty solid squad.

If TT is traded trying to acquire a player like Jimmy Jackson would be the ideal way to go.

Kurt, TT, Penny, Moochie, Sundov are all expendable. If we have to include a young talent like Sweetney to obtain Webb, by all means do it. We can draft another PF or young Center to mold for the future. We have to try to use Marb youth to the max while he is still healthy.

We can afford Webb. Think about it this way, granted that Webb has a bad knee, he will last much longer than Houston at the position that he plays. He has restructured his game to fit his physical abilities. He doesn't have the athleticism that he once has, but his basketball savvy made him an even better player. 3 good years out of Webb, minus some of the crazy contracts that we currently have, with either Penny or TT's contrace off the book next season will do us a lot of good. Even when Webb is not to healthy, he is still posting better numbers than Rasheed and a lot of big men in the game


SEASON STATS: PER GAME | TOTAL | PER 48 MINUTES REBOUNDS
YEAR G GS MIN FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% STL BLK TO PF OFF DEF TOT AST PTS
2004-2005 30 30 35.7 8.9-20.0 .447 0.1-0.4 .308 2.9-3.8 .779 1.37 0.7 3.0 3.1 2.0 7.3 9.3 4.9 20.9

Posted by raven:

webber has a fu.... knee. That trade will blow to our face when he'll need a weelchair next yr.

How many injured superstars will we need to stop dreaming about those big names on the downhill ?

I'm down to get Webber......now that Sactwon has a second scorer behind Peja in Cuttino......maybe they would want some role players to retool the team.

KT comes to mind......so does Timmy and Moochie.....just as long as the Knicks don't give up Craw, Marbs, JYD, Nazr, or Reezy

[Edited by - enyspree on 01/12/2005 10:46:23]

a championship solution for the Knicks would have been to draft Amare Stoudamire then tank in 02-03 and try to draft Wade, Bron or Melo.

wouldn't that have been ideal...too bad tanking the season is considered unethical around these parts.