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It’s semi-official…barring any last minute crashes, Allen Iverson will become a Nugget as of 4 pm local time today.
What the Thuggets get - the #2 scorer in the NBA with enough attitude and tattoos to intimidate the scariest of opponents.
What they had to give up - Andre Miller, Joe Smith, and 2 first-round picks in a deep 2007 draft.
Congratulations to the 76ers for unloading an unhappy malcontent and getting 2 #1’s to go with it. Those will look real nice next to your own lottery pick next year. Please, don’t screw up this opportunity to set your franchise up for the next decade. I’m sure you will find a way to do exactly that given your history.
I think the Thuggets gave up to much to get AI. Trading the picks is a shortcut that isn’t even going to pay off in the now.
Does adding AI to the Nuggets make them better than Dallas, Phoenix, or San Antonio? No. With AI’s age and durability, how many more years does have in the tank? Would adding two 1st-rounders to the Nugget roster next year put them in a place to dominate the NBA for the next decade?
That’s the gamble I would have taken if I’m the GM. Carmelo is young - as he proved this past week - and adding 2 more young studs to this roster would have made them the scariest team in the West.
Not anymore. Now we get to endure the AI/Melo/Camby Experiment. One wonders if there are enough basketballs in the state to satisfy that kind of hunger.
Tags: Allen Iverson, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, NBA, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, trade
9 responses so far ↓
1 Derek // Dec 19, 2006 at 4:11 pm
wow, thats a lot of ego to have on one team. Will AI share the ball with Melo…I guess we’ll see?
2 Grant // Dec 19, 2006 at 5:13 pm
On the other hand, if Karl can get them to play together - they could really jack things up in Western Conference…
Who knows…
3 Derek // Dec 19, 2006 at 5:45 pm
true…i like the nuggets so i hope it happens. guess we’ll find out
4 Jlo // Dec 19, 2006 at 6:11 pm
this is clay at jasons casa. your just an old white man (haha) who sees the tats and thinks hes thug. AI is a guy who will go out and play his hardest every night. he carried a team to the finals that was average besides him. he will make this team a contender.
and on the fight. if this were baseball, hockey or football it wouldnt have been a big deal. there have been worse fights in the nba and this one got overhyped. yeah isiah is worthless as a gm and coach, but i think everyone overreacted about it. the most disappointing thing was how melo ran away after punching mardy collins.
5 Grant // Dec 19, 2006 at 9:54 pm
When a fight breaks out in hockey or baseball - it doesn’t involve the fans. This one did. When a hard foul or flagrant hit is done in football - there is not only a penalty and sometimes an ejection but also a fine.
NBA has no review policy on hard like that so it there is no real deterrent to what happened in NYC.
It’s not about the tats. It’s about making rap albums that he can’t release because the content is so racy and vulgar, the commissioner tells him not to. It’s about the marijuana possession and domestic abuse charges. It’s about having 15 guys surround him like a posse to maintain “street cred.”
He’s an incredible talent and a sad example to kids everywhere.
Same for ‘Melo. The same week he opens a youth center, he starts a brawl in NYC.
That’s the difference. That and the fact they don’t even care about the kind of example they are setting.
6 clay // Dec 20, 2006 at 3:21 pm
no deterrent? a 15 game suspension (about 1/6 of the season) is a pretty good deterrent. and this is all in reaction to the artest deal in detroit. as many people have said, there have been 100 worse fights in the nba. this is not that big of a deal, and its overhyped.
he may not be the greatest role model off the court, but he definately is on the court and that is why he is with denver.
7 Grant // Dec 20, 2006 at 4:55 pm
There is no way you can name 100 fights that are worse in the HISTORY of the NBA.
There is no deterrent for hard, uncalled for intentional fouls. Carmelo got dinged for sucker punching a player.
There was no penalty for trying to hurt a guy going up for layup other than 2 shots and the ball. In other sports there are fines and suspensions.
Not in the NBA.
He’s not a role model. He’s a talented basketball player. There is nothing in any of these two athletes that I want my son emulating.
Nothing.
8 clay // Dec 20, 2006 at 8:18 pm
yes there are and those rules were implemented in recent years. they have different forms of flagrant fouls that result in automatic ejections and suspensions.
9 clay // Dec 20, 2006 at 8:19 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagrant_foul
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