Thursday, June 25, 2009

NBL & NBA news

After saying yesterday what a quiet week it had been in the basketball world, the last 24 hours have been BIG!!

With the NBA draft taking place tomorrow, several pre-draft trades have gone down. It started with:
  • Toronto trading Jason Kapono for Philly's Reggie Evans
  • Then big one was the Bucks sending Richard Jefferson to the Spurs for Kurt Thomas, Fabricio Oberto and Bruce Bowen
  • Oberto didn't last long in Milwaukee as they then traded him to Detroit for Amir Johnson
  • The Timberwolves and Washington on Wednesday struck a deal that gives Minnesota the No. 5 overall pick, its fourth first-round draft choice, along with Wizards forwards Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov. The Wizards receive guards Randy Foye and Mike Miller
Today, news has:

  • Warriors guard Jamal Crawford going to Atlanta for Speedy Claxton and Acie Law
  • And finally, a deal has apparently been done that sends Shaq from Phoenix to Cleveland for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic

Obviously the final deal sending Shaq to Cleveland is the BIGGEST news, but we'll talk more about that when its confirmed.

In NBL news, as things slowly move forward to the new league/season, the NBL office has officially released its new logo ... hearby ending all hummer jokes.

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