John Wall has demanded to be traded. Would you trade Kemba for Wall?
Not in a million years.
Wall has played a total of 73 games over the past four seasons and his game has always seemed highly dependant on his quickness/athleticism. At 30 years old and with THAT injury history, plus the lack of intangibles (he's not exactly got the reputation of a winner) I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole.
People are being pretty harsh on Kemba here. He missed a few games this year and people are calling him "injury prone". I don't get that. Part of the reason why so many people were excited about the Kemba signing is because of the fact that he's been the total opposite of that - hes been incredibly durable over his career.
In fact over his last 4 seasons with Charlotte he played in 322 out of a possible 328 games - that is a 98% attendance rate. And that's despite him playing on bad teams where there wasn't really a lot of incentive to play through hurt.
Kemba is a warrior. The Celtics just got unlucky enough that they happened to get stuck in one of the three seasons (out of his 9 total) where he actually missed more then a handful of games. I understand there is some concern of his knee, but he's been a very healthy player his entire career, and has shown a willingness to play through pain over his career, so I feel he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
There's also the fact that he averated 20 / 5 / 4 this year whole shooting 38% from three and 86% from the line, and the fact that he looks to have excellent chemstry with the young stars on the team (who appear to love him) and goes out of his way to encourage them to grow without any care about whetgher it will take away from his own role.
I'm actually pretty shocked anybody is discussing the option of trading him, it's a little crazy to me - especially so soon after signing.
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