I understand times are tough and shedding a high paid player is probably the result of some shrewd decision of the managing partners... BUT DAMN... JOE SMITH!!?? I understand the man looks like Clyde 'The Glyde' Drexler, but that doesn't mean he can play like him.
I'm talking about the latest trade between the New Orleans Hornets and the Oklahoma City Thunder (formerly known as the Seattle Supersonics). The Hornets gave up Tyson Chandler, who by all statistical measurements isn't really the jumpoff, but he has the intangibles: He plays great D, he's super athletic, he's a great rebounder, his first name is synonymous with a chicken breast company - What more do you want!?!
And what do the Hornets get in return for Mr. Nice Breasts (a reference, this reporter is told, is due to his nominal relation to the chicken company and not his nicely chiseled pectorals)? Baller baller Chris Wilcox of championship Maryland fame and Joe Smith. Now if I'm a franchise that had championship aspirations last season I would try and ADD something that my team was lacking (a good shooting guard would be a start) instead of taking away my biggest defensive asset.
Now this isn't as big of a dumb out as asking Damon Stoudamire to be your assistant coach, trading Pau Gasol for Kwame-bay-bay, or as audacious as drafting Frederick Weis (Yup I'm still mad about that one) but then again we must remember that it takes a special kind of franchise to be the Knicks, the blazers or the Grizzlies.
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