I think Drummond is going to end up in Portland with the #6 pick.
The fact that the Nets gave up that pick for Gerald Wallace still is mind boggling.
Seems they could have got more for it had they been patient. But Williams made it clear he will not wait on a rookie to develop. He wants to win now. Nets are dumb. What moves has Billy King made that were really good in his career. I can't really remember any that worked out for NJ or Philly. Obviously I am not counting the Williams trade because that is still pending depending on what he does this off-season.
I'm holding off judging King harshly at the moment simply because this trade clearly had to have been ownership ordered.
I read that the Nets 2010 free agency signings were not his decisions either.
Travis Outlaw. Johan Petro. Jordan Farmar. Anthony Morrow.
What $19 million a year for the next four years and a fifth year at $7 million for Outlaw. Appearently, even though King is the GM, those signings weren't his decisions. Seems crazy to me that he'd take a GM job without being able to make those decisions.
I have to wonder how much pull he has in that front office and just who is making the decisions for that franchise.
I'm sure King's people are the ones leaking such reports. It's not like his record is so sparkling as to remove him from suspicion on some of the bad Nets deals. He has a history of handing out some really rough contracts (Dalembert, Kenny Thomas, Eric Snow) and getting saddled with under-producing, over-paid big names (Van Horn, Big Dog Robinson, C-Webb).
Very good drafter though (Dalembert at the end of the 1st round, Korver and Lou Williams in the 2nd, Iggy at #9 and some pretty solid picks elsewhere).
