In the spirit of weighing what other people have to say, “Spherical Soundings” will gather various reactions from the blogosphere and mash them into one helpful place.
The big NBA news of the day that’s pretty obvious and drawing a lot of heat: Chauncey Billups and Antonio McDyess will be traded from Detroit to Denver in exchange for Allen Iverson. “WTF, Dumars?” was my first reaction … but as Tom Ziller points out at FanHouse, Detroit is gambling a little now for a huge future payoff.
This deal isn’t about tomorrow or April, though: it’s about July. Iverson is a pending free agent, while Billups and Antonio McDyess will take up $19 million of cap space next season. If Dumars lets A.I. flee and fails to re-sign aging forward Rasheed Wallace, the Pistons will be looking at upwards of $20 million in cap space in the summer of 2009.
And just as the Pistons are suddenly setting themselves up for an shopping spree once the economy (hopefully) turns around, the Nuggets are acting like they don’t even see the metaphorical credit crisis going on, as Shoals points out at the Sporting Blog.
The Nuggets have become a running joke: High on talent, low on organization, and yet always explosive enough to keep us deluded till the last moment of truth (i.e., the playoffs). The Pistons are a winning formula that’s endured all sorts of subtle shifts in personnel.
Of course, despite that “winning formula,” it’s not like Joe Dumars hasn’t tried to get Allen Iverson before … which, as Matt Watson of Detroit Bad Boys notes, is why we might want to consider holding off on announcing the end of the Big Shot Billups Era for right now:
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