Rumination on past trade rumor

Good thing this didn’t go through. Mo williams is mainly a shooter than a ball handler and baron works way better with griffin. Moon would be an upgrade over gomes but that ain’t saying much. Hopefully Aminu has a breakout season and we can bench his ass.

There are a few reasons why I have trouble believing the rumor but the biggest one comes down to common sense. If you look back at the summer of Darth LeBron, the biggest competitor the entire time was not Miami in all actuality, it was Chicago. Throwing in all the other teams as well but one team that was in there.. The Los Angeles Clippers. I highly doubt that Los Angeles’ management would have done any type of deal with Cleveland, afterall, they had most likely the best “player situation” for James to come into and at the time, Cleveland ended up being the only choice next to Miami in his mind. It was very realistic to think that he would could stay as a Cavalier.

Granted, he didn’t end up as a Clipper and it may have not even been a true consideration to him but I truly believe that in Sterling and Olshey’s minds, it was a definite possibility. If it was Los Angeles who made the offer first, I could see it but if Cleveland does it then and all they were obviously looking for was a way to keep James… Why would the Clippers play into their hand?

Just food for thought.

I saw that item in Mark Heisler’s column too. I checked out the salaries and came to the conclusion the Clippers should have done the deal if there wasn’t more to it (my guess is there were strings on it, like Lebron had to sign with Cleveland and then they’d do the deal).

I share all of the opinions people here have on the trade (both the yeses and the nos), but the main thing I kept coming back to is that any opportunity to dump Davis is a good opportunity and should be taken. It’s impossible that the Clippers could have gotten worse off in the deal, and they might have gotten better. Also, and this is a key point, they would have been better off on the salary cap, at least somewhat. Still, there’s no getting around the fact that Mo Williams is his own bag of trouble with his own three year contract, though it’s only a little more than half the amount of Davis’.

Baron healthy and playing well puts the Clippers in legitimate contention. Mo Williams healthy and playing well begs the question, should more time be given to develop Bledoe.