Trade Deadline Open Thread

Now Dirk won’t have to worry about his elbow getting bit

i haven’t read too many details on the trade, but it looks like a salary dump for the kings. landry and dorsey are a couple of interesting players, so i guess they got their big men that they wanted. all this amare talk for nothing, though, it would seem.

A bunch of trades going down today. It looks like Houston is shipping McGrady to the Knicks and getting Kevin Martin from Sacramento. The reported trade doesn’t to work as reported. It looks like the Knicks will have to add some filler to make it look like this. Nate Robinson is apparently heading to Boston but I can’t seem to make the trade work in the Trade Machine. I’m not really sure how the Knicks are going to make those two trades work. Then again, maybe the waiving of Cardinal will alleviate the two discrepancies.

The Bucks and Sixers have a minor trade agreement. Rumors of Salmons and Stoudamire movement appear to be dying down. The McGrady/Martin deal is going to be the only other big deal to go down besides the ones Cleveland and Dallas made. The always unreliable projected PER of the trade machine put the Kings as winners on that one. The Kings could be an interesting team next year with Landry, Casspi and Evans.

random. he’ll probably come off the bench? no way he starts ahead of wallace. maybe sjax-wallace-thomas at the 3-4-5?

Nix the idea of Drew Gooden coming back.

Thursday, 4:34 p.m. — Gooden likely to stay in L.A.

Recently acquired Clippers forward Drew Gooden is likely to remain a Clipper, an NBA source told SI.com. Gooden, who has bounced from Dallas to Washington to L.A. in separate deals this week, won’t seek a buyout from Los Angeles. According to a source, Gooden, who had sought a buyout from Washington, has had productive conversations with Clippers management — including GM Mike Dunleavy - that have convinced him that finishing the season in L.A. is in his best interest.
- Chris Mannix