ESPN - Jefferson For Yi and Simmons

[Serpo]

ouch... i thought bobby simmons was an expiring, so both teams would win.
but having simmons for 2 or 3 more years, it's a real bad deal for the nets.

For the Nets this is essentially an expiring . It's not like we where planning to do something in 09 with Capspace anyway. Yi should bring alot more money then every expiring contract could have saved over Simmons who's now replacing RJ in the depth chart .

RJ's contract had to go we've been trying to trade him for quite some time now and never had success with it . His contract really is pretty ugly for a 2nd to 3rd guy .

[Teen Girl Squad]

Plus remember that the nets couldn't even sell out playoff games with Kidd/Carter/Jefferson so its not as if they will miss him in ticket sales. If you're going to suck, do it cheap and young at least.

[Birth of the Cool]

thinking this trade again overnight I do think for the IMMEDIATE future RJ is easily the better player however RJ has played with one of the most unselfish (oncourt) backcourt tandems in the NBA in Kidd/Carter and that is great for someone like RJ who isn't great (not bad, but not top level) at creating his own offense but is really good at making himself available for scoring opportunities.

Now he goes to a backcourt duo that many consider shoot first type of guys in Mo/Redd. Will they give RJ the ball when he's ready to score or will his skillset be underutilized (like Bogut) because of the Buck's backcourt....Scott Skiles might be the answer.

[Serpo]

RJ , K-Mart and JKidd united to cann Byron Scott will RJ and Mo , Redd , Bogut do the same ?

RJ's close with Kidd so RJ should already know what he has to expect ( pretty sure JKidd told some stories from his Phoenix time ) and i'm pretty sure he already hates it .

[HMFFL]

I like the for the Bucks. I don't expect Milwaukee to make anymore major moves during the off-season.

I'm happy for Yi and I hope his game develops under the system. It's hard to gauge what type of year New Jersey is going to have because Devin and Vince are going to have there work cut out for them. Bobby Simmons is also another good player that will be serviceable to the team. He needs to stay healthy and put the injuries behind for him for the Nets to have success.

[BROWN]

Love it for the bucks.

[magicfan4life05]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... _to_bucks/

Jefferson Not Happy With Trade To Bucks?

Richard Jefferson is not happy with the draft day trade which sent him to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons, the New York Post is reporting.

Jefferson communicated with Nets team president Rod Thorn via text message, and the two have not yet spoken.

"He didn't seem very happy," said Thorn. "I spoke to his agent, I called him, texted him. I like Richard. He was here for a long time and I'm sure he still expected to be here. Unless you are the one pushing for it, it's always difficult when you are traded. You are going to a new place, have new teammates. It's hard at first."

So who wants to try and guess what those text messages were?

[Comet]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/53280/20080630/jefferson_not_happy_with_trade_to_bucks/

Jefferson Not Happy With Trade To Bucks?

Richard Jefferson is not happy with the draft day trade which sent him to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons, the New York Post is reporting.

Jefferson communicated with Nets team president Rod Thorn via text message, and the two have not yet spoken.

"He didn't seem very happy," said Thorn. "I spoke to his agent, I called him, texted him. I like Richard. He was here for a long time and I'm sure he still expected to be here. Unless you are the one pushing for it, it's always difficult when you are traded. You are going to a new place, have new teammates. It's hard at first."

So who wants to try and guess what those text messages were?

Not sure, but he'll get over it. In a few weeks he'll be fine.