Big game today
Jeff Green lands with Grizzlies
Jan 12, 2015
ESPN.com
The NBA has approved a five-player trade between the Grizzlies, Boston Celtics and New Orleans Pelicans that includes forward Jeff Green going from Boston to Memphis.
The Grizzlies announced the deal Monday.
In the trade, the Grizzlies send forward Tayshaun Prince to Boston and forward Quincy Pondexter to New Orleans. The Grizzlies also acquired point guard Russ Smith, a 2014 second-round pick, from New Orleans and a trade exception. The Pelicans send Austin Rivers to Boston in the deal.
Memphis also sends a 2015 second-round pick to New Orleans and a protected future first-round pick to Boston.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/12154581/jeff-green-traded-memphis-grizzlies-approved-nba
Its crazy how a pick from 2015 has survived this long
And it could survive one more year if the pick is 14th and it drops to below 6. Which imo would suck
As Grizzlies will be better next season plus get a top 5 pick. Only helps their team
Griz outperformed their talent this season. West is deep. They would not be favored to make playoffs next season. So would likely be another late lottery pick in a deeper better draft.
Agreed.
figure the locks to finish with a better record are:
Lakers, Clippers, GSW (assuming Curry/Klay are healthy), OKC, Denver, Dallas, Houston, Portland (assuming healthy), NO (assuming healthy). That's 9 right there.
Add in Utah and the Spurs as probably finishing better, that's 11. Toss in Phx which is doing very well in the bubble and certainly has the talent to be better, we're now at 12.
That leaves Minny and Sac as the two that aren't locks or even in the discussion but they will have lottery picks this year and are not exactly bereft of talent either. Minny still has KAT and Russell and Sac has Fox, Hield and Bagley which is a good core when healthy.
I doubt Memphis ends up as the worst in the West but they're a lot closer to the bottom than the top or real playoff contention. Carrying that pick to next year, as unlikely as it is to happen, would be a huge gain for the C's.