Drew Gooden to Mavericks

[Marqui]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4356529

So Dallas is another  big player out of the BBD hunt. Whats interesting/scary about this is they gave Gooden around 5 million. If they offered that to Baby he would have almost certainly been gone.

[RAcker]

If they offered that to Baby he would have almost certainly been gone.

I think at $5 mil, you could scratch out that "almost".

[indeedproceed]

good move by Dallas.

[Fafnir]

good move by Dallas.

Yup, solid short term fill in since they lost out on Gortat.

[P2]

Wow, they definitely overpaid for him. Desperation move in my eyes.

[GKC]

I do like how it's a 1 ear deal. They can always use him as trade bait (unless he has an exception). If the cap does look to shrink a lot (and you can tell by February), an Dallas doesn't want to go into free agency, a Jho+Gooden expirings trade would be huge.

My only problem is Brandon Bass got less than Gooden did (though for more years). I feel like Bass could have been a better contributer.

Considering Gooden played for the vet min at the deadline, he definitely struck some gold. I hope this doesn't mess up the market for the remaining big men (I can see Hakeem Warrick's agents eyes lighting up with dollar signs)

[EDWARDO]

Shouldn't the threat title be "Drew Gooden to Mavericks, puts them ahead of Celtics/Ainge- soon to rule world"?

[MaineBleedsGreen]

I always forget the guy is only 27!

He definitely did good for himself on that deal.

Glad we can cross Dallas of the BBD list.

[PRIDE]

Big Baby is now another step closer to returning to Beantown!

[Rtpas11]

Is it me, or did Drew Gooden fall of the earth??? I don't know what happened to him. He was playing pretty well in Cleveland and Chicago, now suddenly he's mediocre and his worth is 5 mil

[Chris]

If they offered that to Baby he would have almost certainly been gone.

I think at $5 mil, you could scratch out that "almost".

Well, it was a 1 year deal, and I think the C's would have definitely matched ANY 1 year deal for Davis. 

Anyways, this is a good deal for both Gooden and Dallas.  On talent and production, Gooden is worth much more than a 1 year, $5 million deal.  There are some real questions about his attitude, and BBIQ, but given what was left out there, this was a great pickup by Dallas, who still needed to add to their talentbase, if they wanted any chance to keep up with LA and SA.  I think Gooden was by far the most talented big man left out there.

Now this leaves Dallas with a lot more talent than they had last year...but also some major issues with how to fit the players (and personalities) together.  They will be a really interesting team to watch next season.  And they still have another big chip in Dampier's (semi)expiring contract to upgrade even more.