Holy shit, Big Al might stay even if KG comes

As you may know the Kevin Garnett to the Celtics trade talks are back in full force. It was said that the Celtics best young player Al Jefferson was going to Minnesota, which made sense from the Timberwolves viewpoint.

But then this happened

Shira Springer on the Boston Globe’s website

“Kevin Garnett soon could become the newest member of the Celtics, multiple league sources said this afternoon, but two of the sources cautioned that any trade may not be as imminent as some early reports indicated.

As the trade currently stands, the Celtics would send Gerald Green, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff, and two first-round picks to the Timberwolves for Garnett.

Al Jefferson is not included in the deal at the moment.”

Even as someone who loves Ryan Gomes,

GET IT DONE DANNY!

Is anyone really scared of the Celtics?

Sure as hell doesn’t look like Tim Duncan is..

Is anyone scared of Boston? Short answer no. Look at every team in Sport’s worst division.. the Hellhole or as you might call it the Atlantic Division. Toronto, New Jersey, Philadelphia and New York. Why would any of those teams worry about a few ageing stars and an “upcoming” forward.

Heres what the other teams had to say when interviewed:

Toronto: Boston who’s?

New Jersey: Go back to the lotttery

Philadelphia: Our mediocrity is to much for you

New York: We have Donaghy on our side

On a more serious note According to ESPN’s Hollinger ratings the Boston Celtics have 3 of the best players in the league with: Ray Allen, Paul Pierce and Al Jefferson. The only other two teams in the same situation are the Spurs and the Suns and a little hunch tells me those teams aren’t doing to badly.

 

Nightmare in the NBA: Corruption being investigated

This is bad, This is very bad. Many have questioned it for years without success. Tim Donaghy is at the center of a federal investigation. The investigation consists of accusations that the NBA Ref “Fixed games and bet on ones that he officiated” Supposedly Donaghy had a gambling addiciton and was threatened by a string of Gangsters who where problem gamblers.

The sad thing is, Now every time you think you see a bad call there will be people claiming that there was corruption. A sad day for the NBA.

The worst part is that this will enable fans to claim any tough loss decided on a call they view questionable. Win by 1? Get ready to hear that “your team just paid the ref off” from sore losers.

This has the potential to be worse than the steroids scandal since steroids do not automatically produce a win, a ref in your pocket all but does.

On the Yi situation.

Most people have reacted indignantly to Yi Jianlian’s camp trying to dictate who and who couldn’t draft Yi by not allowing workouts to some teams including the Milwaukee Bucks allegedly due to a sparse Chinese population in Wisconsin . Then the Bucks took him anyway with the 6th pick. Yi’s camp responded by demanding a trade, dropping a few team names as preferred destinations for him and stating that if not traded he will not report and re-enter the draft next year. The Bucks countered that they have no intentions of trading Yi and are confident he will sign. How will this be resolved? How should it be resolved? (more)

Doc Rivers admits what the world knows

“That’s right,” he said with a laugh. “I get booed because I suck.”

Besides that obvious statement, Doc made a few other good points in the article (more)

Kurt Thomas and Barbosa headed to Seattle?

Just come into BSS that rumor is speculating about a possible trade involving the two suns players. The two sonics players that are rumored to be going are part of the French connection (Petro, Gelabale).

2004 MVP meet 2006 MVP

Could two of the best Power Forwards in the game be on the same team in the near future?

Trade Rumors between Minesota and Dallas are running rampant as the deal gets closer and closer every day, The former MVP Garnett has had a hard time winning in Minesota in the past few years. He has told interviewers many times all he wants is to win, He even told our own Staff Writer Jack this when Jack went to see him play a regular season game this year.

The proposed deal:

Josh Howard, Devin Harris, DeSagana Diop and Greg Buckner for Kevin Garnett.

How will the deal work:

Mavericks have to give Minesota contracts that are within twenty-five percent of KG’s salary which is at the moment 22 million. Or 16.5 Million in cash.

Grading the early FA signings – PT 1

Although contracts for the 2007-2008 can’t officially be signed until the 11th of July the NBA off-season has started at a fairly frantic pace and some intriguing deals have quickly been verbally agreed upon. Here I will give a quick rundown and Grade each of the main deals agreed on principle so far.

San Antonio Spurs Re-Sign Matt Bonner -3 Years/$ 9 Million

Bonner is a 27 year old one dimensional shooter who will be getting payed 3 million dollars a year to sit on the bench and cheer on his successful teammates. He better start getting out the pom-poms because if I was getting payed 3 million dollars to sit on the bench and clap, I’d feel like I’d owe the Spurs organization every thing I can give.

More after the jump

Celtics-Blazers summer league

 

Greg Oden debuted tonight in a summer league game that doesn’t mean much. Portland’s thankful for that becuase Oden didn’t have the greatest debut. In fact he flat out stunk.

Mr. Big Shot re-ups with Detroit??

Chauncey Billups has re-signed with the Detroit Pistons at 5 years, 60 Million dollars ESPNEWS reports.

Update: It’s a “vicious rumor” according to Billups’ agent. It will be interesting to see if this turns Billups against returning