NBA's Top 40 Trade worthy players

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050701&num=3

some funny ones..BUT TRUE!

35. Vince Carter – The good news: VC averaged close to 29 points per game, six rebounds per game and five assists per game after the All-Star Break and seems sufficiently recovered from his scarring Toronto experience (in which the Raptors and their fans unrealistically expected him to play hard every night when he was making $14 million a year). The bad news: He reverted to 2002-04 Vince in the Miami series, to the point that TNT producers probably considered cutting Barkley's microphone off because you could tell he was just dying to describe Vince with a certain five-letter word that wouldn't have been very nice.

Here's the smoking gun with Vince: Would he have lasted two quarters in that Spurs-Pistons series (on either team) before checking into full-scale "Not going with 25 feet of the basket/only launching 3s/spending the fourth quarter on the bench with a white towel over his head" mode? Of course not. And since that's the direction basketball is going – for better or worse – "star players" like VC and Francis are useless for anyone hoping to win a championship. They're just not tough enough.


33. Zach Randolph – After signing a gargantuan extension and subsequently sticking a 37-cent stamp on the season, Randolph should only be making top-40s for lists like "Most Likely To Get His GM Fired" and "Most Likely To Launch the First-Ever 'Should He Still Count Against the Cap If He's Serving Five-to-10?' Debate." But how many reliable low-post guys are there under 25? And what if the FDA green lights a new form of medication for semi-crazy power forwards who should be twice as productive as they actually are? We're keeping him on the list for one more year (but that's it).

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I Love The Clippers!!

29. Elton Brand – In Year One of the "Bill Simmons as Clippers season-ticket holder" Era, I watched E.B. up close and personal for an entire season. Here's what you get: A reliable rebounder and surprisingly good shot blocker; a hard worker who never takes a night off; a deadly shooter from 15-to-18 feet if he's open; and absolutely, positively, unequivocally, no low-post moves whatsover. He's one of those guys where you look up at the scoreboard and say, "Wow, Elton has 24 points? How did that happen?" Still, the Clippers can't trade him because he's one of the few blue-chippers out there who don't mind playing for them. In fact, that's how they should start his profile in the 2005-06 Clippers media guide: "One of the few stars in the league who doesn't mind playing for us!"

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20. Chris Bosh – The runaway winner of the 2005 Shareef Abdur-Rahim Award, given annually to a tantalizing young star on a losing team who everyone assumes will keep getting better and better, when the reality is that he's close to hitting his ceiling already, and his numbers look so good mainly because he was playing 35-40 minutes a game on a bad team. Remember I told you this when Bosh is making $15 million a year on a 22-win Toronto team five years from now, and he's the subject of 370 trade rumors before the 2009 draft.


OUCH

[R-Tistic]

Very interesting list, and good breakdowns. I have always said that Lebron was gonna do one of two things...end up stayin with the Cavs, only if they had the potential to turn that situation into the Bulls by building a very solid team around him and winning rings....or, he'd go to the Lakers, Knicks, or somebody with a BIG market. I'm definitely hopin he'll come to the Lakers sometime within the next ten years (yeah that's a long time, but still), and I know it seems almost impossible to see that happening even in the future. But I think he would choose the Lakers over any other team...I remember him sayin he grew up admiring Magic more than Jordan, suprisingly since he wears #23 and people always talk about him and Jordan...and I know he has said he was a Laker fan through high school, and he is always in LA and at Laker games.

[Don Jacob]

these had me rollin


26. Ben Wallace – This seems about right, although hearing announcers and writers constantly pimping him has become tiresome – he went from being wildly underrated to slightly overrated in the span of two seasons. If he's so invaluable, then why did Detroit seem more effective in the Finals with McDyess and 'Sheed playing together? More important, does anyone else keep waiting for Wallace to look into the camera, tilt his head, unleash one of those Eddie Murphy smiles and sing, "Unce … tice … fee times … a mady … "


22. Allen Iverson – Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice … (laid back) … with my mind on my money and my money on mind …

[King Of L.A.]

Very interesting list, and good breakdowns. I have always said that Lebron was gonna do one of two things...end up stayin with the Cavs, only if they had the potential to turn that situation into the Bulls by building a very solid team around him and winning rings....or, he'd go to the Lakers, Knicks, or somebody with a BIG market. I'm definitely hopin he'll come to the Lakers sometime within the next ten years (yeah that's a long time, but still), and I know it seems almost impossible to see that happening even in the future. But I think he would choose the Lakers over any other team...I remember him sayin he grew up admiring Magic more than Jordan, suprisingly since he wears #23 and people always talk about him and Jordan...and I know he has said he was a Laker fan through high school, and he is always in LA and at Laker games.

Lebron even said Kobe Bryant is his idiol. back when he was in high school he was playing @ ucla in some kinda tournament. after the game he gave Jerry Buss who happen to be at the game a tape of his high school highlights and told him to draft him.

even tho in 2007 when Lebron is a free agent the lakers would be under the salary cap, i can't see him singing with the Lakers even tho his contract says Nike will Double his salary for playing in NY,LA & Chi. he needs to go to a team where he can be his own man not some sidekick behind kobe and kobe won't wanna be some sidekick to some kid.

[7even]

Cavs need to trade LeBron. If they think they can make him stay after missing the playoffs 2 times in a row, they are just pushing their luck. They could trade him for Kobe. Kinda sucks for them but otherwise they would have nothing after the next season. And getting LeBron for Kobe is obviously the IDEAL trade for the Lakers.

[eS El Duque]

these had me rollin


26. Ben Wallace – This seems about right, although hearing announcers and writers constantly pimping him has become tiresome – he went from being wildly underrated to slightly overrated in the span of two seasons. If he's so invaluable, then why did Detroit seem more effective in the Finals with McDyess and 'Sheed playing together? More important, does anyone else keep waiting for Wallace to look into the camera, tilt his head, unleash one of those Eddie Murphy smiles and sing, "Unce … tice … fee times … a mady … "


22. Allen Iverson – Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice … (laid back) … with my mind on my money and my money on mind …

lmao

6. Shaquille O'Neal – If only because of the way he hooked the Heat franchise up to the Juvenation Machine last season. With that said, I think the days of "Shaq: Unstoppable Force" are winding down to a close. Just seems like his body is slowly breaking down. I'm looking forward to his retirement – it's just going to be a series of stories along the lines of …

"Shaq quits job as sheriff in small Louisiana town, decides to become a professional alligator wrestler."

"Shaq accepts job as host of "Fear Factor;" Joe Rogan reportedly furious."

"Shaq hired as America West pilot, resigns from NASA's astronaut program."

"Notorious serial killer brought down by FBI and Shaq."

(Really, anything's possible.)

[R-Tistic]

Very interesting list, and good breakdowns. I have always said that Lebron was gonna do one of two things...end up stayin with the Cavs, only if they had the potential to turn that situation into the Bulls by building a very solid team around him and winning rings....or, he'd go to the Lakers, Knicks, or somebody with a BIG market. I'm definitely hopin he'll come to the Lakers sometime within the next ten years (yeah that's a long time, but still), and I know it seems almost impossible to see that happening even in the future. But I think he would choose the Lakers over any other team...I remember him sayin he grew up admiring Magic more than Jordan, suprisingly since he wears #23 and people always talk about him and Jordan...and I know he has said he was a Laker fan through high school, and he is always in LA and at Laker games.

Lebron even said Kobe Bryant is his idiol. back when he was in high school he was playing @ ucla in some kinda tournament. after the game he gave Jerry Buss who happen to be at the game a tape of his high school highlights and told him to draft him.

even tho in 2007 when Lebron is a free agent the lakers would be under the salary cap, i can't see him singing with the Lakers even tho his contract says Nike will Double his salary for playing in NY,LA & Chi. he needs to go to a team where he can be his own man not some sidekick behind kobe and kobe won't wanna be some sidekick to some kid.

Dayum.................serious??? I definitely believe that Nike would do it, I just never heard it before. But yeah, I don't know how him and Kobe would work, they are too similar and I donno how much they'd get along with each other there.

[Don Jacob]

these had me rollin


26. Ben Wallace – This seems about right, although hearing announcers and writers constantly pimping him has become tiresome – he went from being wildly underrated to slightly overrated in the span of two seasons. If he's so invaluable, then why did Detroit seem more effective in the Finals with McDyess and 'Sheed playing together? More important, does anyone else keep waiting for Wallace to look into the camera, tilt his head, unleash one of those Eddie Murphy smiles and sing, "Unce … tice … fee times … a mady … "


22. Allen Iverson – Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin and juice … (laid back) … with my mind on my money and my money on mind …

lmao

6. Shaquille O'Neal – If only because of the way he hooked the Heat franchise up to the Juvenation Machine last season. With that said, I think the days of "Shaq: Unstoppable Force" are winding down to a close. Just seems like his body is slowly breaking down. I'm looking forward to his retirement – it's just going to be a series of stories along the lines of …

"Shaq quits job as sheriff in small Louisiana town, decides to become a professional alligator wrestler."

"Shaq accepts job as host of "Fear Factor;" Joe Rogan reportedly furious."

"Shaq hired as America West pilot, resigns from NASA's astronaut program."

"Notorious serial killer brought down by FBI and Shaq."

(Really, anything's possible.)

i can REALLY see the FBI headline happening,lol