[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I like the trade. I think Dallas had to make the move in order to go after a title now. Kidd will help them more THIS SEASON than Harris will. Tomorrow is never guaranteed. This is the same thing I liked about Phoenix' trade for Shaq. If, as an owner or general manager, you look at your roster and know that you are good but not going to win a title, you make moves that you believe will make you better now. Simple. This is the problem the gm in Chicago didn't understand. They had chances last year and in the off-season to trade for Garnett or Gasol. They didn't make either move because they didn't want to get rid of Deng or Gordon. Those guys are fine players but as constructed, the Bulls were NOT going to win a title. So why hold on to them? Harris is a fine player and will be around for years after Kidd is gone but the chance to win a title is now so I applaud the move. The obvious area that it will hurt Dallas is in losing Diop. As unproductive as he is offensively, when combined with Dampier, they are at least a presence on defense and if nothing else, a big body and six more fouls to use against the dominant inside men of the West (Shaq, Bynum, Stoudamire, Duncan, Ming). It will not surprise me if after the Nets buyout Stackhouse, he resigns with the Mavs. One thing that I think the Mavs blew was the chance to sign Chris Webber. Webber is merely a shadow of his former self but I think he could have fit in well off of the bench for this team. If Dallas had pulled the trigger on this deal earlier, the addition of Kidd might have been enough to make Webber want to go there instead of to Golden State.

The playoffs in the West this year are probably going to be as strong as ever in the history of the game. It's going to be brutal. I think that it's going to be so brutal that it could actually end up helping the team that wins the East to the title. I think back to the first half of the 1980's when the East was so strong with Boston, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee and while they were killing each other, the Lakers were skating through the West.

Ok so now it looks like there is another problem with the deal. George's punk ass doesn't want to go so that was the first problem. Cuban didn't want to sign and trade Van Horn because of luxury tax issues. But he resigned himself into knowing that he'd have to in order to make the deal go through. Now the league is saying hold-up because of the fact that Stackhouse admitted publicly what should have been common knowledge. He said that he was going to re-sign with Dallas after the Nets bought out his contract and he waited the required 30 days. Big deal. That is not necessarily a side deal. Stackhouse would be free to sign wherever he wants to and if it's his choice to go back to Dallas, so be it. If I knew this was likely to happen, how come it's seemingly coming as a shock to everyone else now? People knew that Damon Stoudamire was looking for a buyout so he could sign with San Antonio. The Boston newspapers were reporting that Cassell was looking for a buyout so he could sign with the Celtics. Come on now. Guys know what they are planning on doing so Stackhouse is no different.