Krstic to Russia

[ChampKind]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3508955

Nenad's departure leaves my keeper league team thin at C.  More importantly, it takes away a big presence for the Nets (but only if he was able to come back healthy).  New Jersey is going to have a rough year, with just Harris and Carter as their reliable starters.  Josh Boone just got a lot more important for them.

Also, the equivalent of $9 million per year?  Pretty good money for a decent big man with big injury concerns.  I don't blame him for jumping on that deal.

[wdleehi]

Give NJ the opportunity to see if he has healed up before offering him a big contract. 

[zerophase]

ehh no affect on me. there was no chance he was comming here.

[jgod213]

Give NJ the opportunity to see if he has healed up before offering him a big contract. 

They will still have his rights when he's done over there, right? Because if not, then NJ has probably seen the last of him.  Either he proves he hasn't recovered from his injury and doesn't get many (if any) offers back here, or he revives his career and has at least a half dozen NBA teams going hard after him.

I still believe that Shawn Williams will beecome a legitimate NBA player soon.  Maybe they won't have to wait too long to get over what could have been with Nenad.

[gar]

Injured bigs have slowed NJ for a while. Now they have a couple of youngsters. They may be competing with the Celtics for a veteran big .