Rackin up DNPs
Well technically not nothing, they will get back Leandro Barbosa’s expiring contract as well as his torn ACL.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, the Washington Wizards have dealt shooting guard and kind-of Wiz fan favorite Jordan Crawford to the Boston Celtics for the expiring deal of Leandro Barbosa. What the Wizards get back in return is a player who just tore his ACL 10 days ago and will never don the red, white, and blue Bullets Wizards jersey in DC.
The move is essentially a salary dump, that will save them $2,162,418 towards next year’s salary.
The Wizards managed to take an at least semi-valuable player, crush his value within weeks of the trade deadline by giving him a string of DNP-CDs, and then let the league know he is available for pennies on the dollar.
The result, Jordan Crawford is traded for…..nothing. More (angry) thoughts on this later.
Best of luck in Boston JC. Stay steezy.
**UPDATE: Per Woj, Boston will also be sending Jason Collins in the deal. So I still stand by my “nothing” assessment.
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Hated it! (Men on film reference) This front office and HC sucks. Crawford should have been playing before Temple and Price the last month. He needed to be coached better and told not to keep jacking up bad shots, if that was the problem Whitman had with him when Crawford did get minutes when Wall returned. He should have been told he’d be benched if he kept it, maybe he was and maybe Crawford broke that ultimatum with Whitman and Grunfield anyways this front office and coach have to make up their minds, try to win now or rebuild with the young guys and cheaper free agents.
The management sends mixed signals (not a surprise, they suck) but they traded for 3 veterans with huge contracts last offseason. I know we have a lot of young guys also and clearly Wall and Beal are the future but what the hell are we doing with Nene, Okafor and Ariza who all have huge contracts and are exiting their prime?
As I said mixed signals. It seems they want to rebuild on the fly with some veterans as well. My preference would be pick one or the other. If they were going to stay young, they shouldn’t have traded for nene, they should have gotten someone younger for McGee or their draft pick. They should have just bought out Rashard Lewis instead of taking back the huge contracts of Ariza and Okafor for two more seasons. Since they traded for 3 veterans last offseason, they seemed to show their hand that also wanted to win now and not do a slow rebuild that would take several years and several draft classes. That’s why I say they should trade for a veteran SF to make that front line solid and go for the playoffs next year. They have to choose one or the other, because doing both halfas$ right now isn’t working!
Yeah we’re rebuilding, but we can’t even get that ish right!
I just….I can’t respond to this at the moment. Gotta get my thoughts together.
And that was in total agreement to what you are saying. Hope it didn’t come off the wrong way.
I am a died hard wizards fan, (since 1971) but i am convince that as
long as the GM remains, the wizards will continue to go in the wrong direction. (Am I the only one to see this? ) Ernie G. needs to go
Obie, you aren’t the only one man. We have been beating the FIRE ERNIE drum all year and even before then. It is disgraceful the way the organization is being run.
Nope. Everyone agrees and has thought so since 09 and he’s still here!
Agreed. For nothing!
Ted Leonsis is a big loser as well. He is a preening peacock with no idea how to maintain a franchise except to screw his fan base. A bigger Greek version of Abe Pollin.
I have to say I’m beginning to have the same feeling about Ted, Jed! Lol, that rhymes