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I first spotted this in NBA Source, so I’m giving them the credit for it. Milwaukee has traded Desmond Mason to New Orleans/Oklahoma City for Jamaal Magloire.
And here’s your Carival of the Trade:
Tony Mejia from Sportsline
Fantasy Basketball Coach breaks it down:
Desmond Mason is now THE man on the Hornets. Don’t be surprised to see lots of 20 + points per game with a still decent shooting percentage.
Are we talking about the same Desmond Mason? His career high is 17 points and he’s going to somehow get to 20 just because there aren’t any good players on his team? I think with Chris Paul, JR Smith, PJ Brown, and Chris Andersen in the starting lineup with Mason, there’s some guys who can score besides Mason. Yes, his value goes up a lot after leaving Milwaukee, but let’s not go hog wild before we see how many shots he gets in NO/OC.
FantasyNBA also has some brief analysis:
Now this is a dream come true trade, fantasy wise for owners of Bobby Simmons who will now enjoy the minutes, shots etc. that would have gone to Mason. I can’t see a benefit for Magloire owners, maybe not much damage either.
That’s more like it. No benefit for Magloire owners. Certainly no benefit for owners who picked Gadzuric near the end thinking he’d be a pretty good sleeper when Bogut underperforms this season. And it will be hard for Bogut to outpeform exepectations now with Magloire and Gadzuric competing for minutes. I can see Magloire averaging close to a double-double (probably not more than that, though). The other big guy who gets a big boost is Chris Andersen. With starters minutes, he should be able to produce the same numbers as Magloire last season. He’ll probably get more blocks, and might get more points since his FG and FT percentages are higher than Magloire’s.
Simmons gets a boost in value; I’d say as big as that of Mason. The reason I’m down on Mason is because he’s a chronic underperformer. If he was capable of scoring 20 points, I believe that he should have been closer to doing it already. Redd is a 20 point scorer: he’s done it for the past 2 seasons – in the same lineup that Mason was in. If you look at Mason’s other numbers: 45%, 79%, 4.5 REB, 1.8 AST, 0.7 STL, and 0.3 BLK, there is nothing besides the points that makes him worth taking. He could score 30 points a game and still not crack the first round without bringing the other numbers up. Compare to Simmons: 16, 6, 2.7, 1.4, 0.2 on 44 and 84. You get 1.5 more rebounds, 1 more assist, 0.7 more steals (double Mason’s number) and close to the same blocks with about the same FG and better FT. Even with Redd, there’s not a lot going on with the Bucks that will impact Simmons.
Fortress on Fourth has a quote from Yahoo.
SonicsCentral has 2 sentences on the trade
SI.com has several hundred words on the trade
True Hoop quotes ESPN on the trade
Yahoo has another long article
YAYBasketball is always amusing
The “Outside” World:
Hnk Jr. has some more good fantasy analysis (with specific examples from the Return of the Jedi league
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