I am back and I have a crazy theory! Thanks to ESPN's little trade machine, I might be on to something. Hey Stern I have a four team trade proposal with Stones, Hawks, Blazers and Heat. All players are on 1 to 2 years left on their contract, one player the Stones want and the other will be gone next year. And No, Wade is not apart of this crazy idea.
Thanks to a free NBA League Pass preview and few national televised games I was fortunate to watch the Pistons play. Usually I listen to sweet sound of Mahorn call a game via X-M. Instead of watching a team struggles to find themselves in my head where Rip and A.I struggle contently get to one another and Wwhere I also watched Amir's youth develop in my head like a proud parent, my eyes opened my head to a sluggish team with about as much chemistry as I gathered in my C+ in high school. And as Sheed says "Ball don't lie!"
So as good as the idea was of AI coming to the D was, its time has faded. I have invested about as much faith in AI as he does in having practice on a holiday. Rip and I have a bond, a bond I remember every time I look at my celebration scar on my toe! So I decided to play with that trade machine with AI leaving the D and this is what I worked out;
Stones Get: Shawn Marion and Steve Blake
Hawks Get: A.I
Blazers Get: Mike Bibby
Heat Get: Marvin Williams and Raef LaFrentz
Why this works;
Stones: Stuckey get a well traveled back up as opposed to a younger Bynum (whose not that bad). Rip gets to play and gets that trust and confidence he needs. Marion is 6-7, Tay is 6-9 and Amir is 6-9 so the stones don't lose height but gain a shooter at the 4 and Tay can play D, he built his career on that. Then Marion brings a little more explosiveness to the 3. Then Amir can come off the bench to give that spark he usually did off the bench.
Hawks: I know Bibby was a PG and AI is a SG but Joe Johnson is a bigger SG. Remember Eric Snow was bigger SG during that 76er run with AI. Plus this team is a little faster then Sheed and Stones and I think that's better for AI. The loss of Marvin lets a bigger body of Horford to Move into PF and quicker J.Smith to get outside at the 3.
Blazers: Who doesn't love Steve Blake and Roy as their back court! But Bibby and Roy sounds a little better I think Bibby would love to come back West anyways and show he still has something to give. Raef leaving town would be no different then one Starbucks closing, cause there is another one a block up the street (Joel Przybilla).
Heat: Heat give up some money and get some more youth. I think with Marion gone, Beasly would feel a little more pressure to work. Beasly would now have to compete with a player his age instead of "developing" behind a veteran. Reaf would stay at a 4th string C but he's got experience at
It's just an idea, I am no Joe D., but either has been the AI experience!