As mentioned on GoatDiesel in the past, the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat have FINALLY completed the Jermaine O’Neal for Shawn Marion. That deal right there I just mentioned, seems like a good deal but let me delve further into this for you. Jermaine O’Neal will not make the journey to Miami himself, the Raptors have packed Jamario Moon and his disdain for the rim to Miami in return, we get the Matrix and Marcus Banks. Seems cool right? Ohhh GoatDiesel forgot to tell you, we also gave up A FIRST ROUND PICK!!! YES! The 21-34 Raptors that are bound for the lottery this season and probably NEXT traded a 1st round PICK! What do they get in return you ask? Marcus Banks! Do I hate on Uncle Phil’s game? No, he is actually a REALLY good on the ball defender (which we are sorely lacking) and he is almost as fast as anyone in the league. “So what’s your beef almighty Diesel?”, you ask? His contract is UGLY!!! We just took on 4M+ until 2012! For those of you that aren’t aware 2010 and even ‘11 are years you WANT to be cap friendly, 2012? Not so much. So all I can surmise is either Colangelo has something up his versace laden sleeve or the he REALLY wants to pull a George Costanza and go out in glory. He is about 1 move away from being WORSE than Rob Babcock, yes I SAID IT!!!
I will use this paragraph to apologize for all my CAPITALIZED LETTERS and exclamation marks!!! I am really upset by this trade and almost cried when I read that this trade went down.
Well don’t let me do all the blabbering, what did you all think? Hit me UP!!!
Peace!
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on the court i like the trade for the Raps, they need an athletic wing player for Calderon to toss some lobs up for. financially i have to agree with you though GOAT, nice to get rid of JO’s contract, but Banks’ is a lot to take on for the much anticipated 2010.