Comments on: Trading Samuel Dalembert: The Impossible Task Part 1

By: Tom Moore

Tom Moore — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:46:41 +0000

He was gone either way, but sealed it with his post-Game 6 remarks.

By: Dannie

Dannie — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:25:40 +0000

Dave D – Stefanski said today on ESPN 950 the won’t be resigning Theo Ratliff. Probably has some to do with him bashing the coaching staff aka Tony Dileo but more so to do with Brand and Jason Smith back healthy (crossing fingers).

By: Dave D

Dave D — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:49:29 +0000

Absolutely hilarious, and spot on. I’d love Peja coming off the bench and am relatively comfortable with Speights/Smith…Brand doing center duties. I wouldn’t mind Ratliff signing for one-more-year despite his eoy hijinx.

By: tk76

tk76 — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:53:04 +0000

IMO, blown up implies Brand or Iguodala. But I guess they can use whatever teaser leads they choose.

By: Dannie

Dannie — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:00:48 +0000

I have insider. It's just good copywriting that's all. Attention grabbing headline. There is absolutely nothing that says the Sixers will be blown up. It's the NBA rumors page and the two Sixers snippets are about Stefanski planning to talk to Dileo within the week and that he hasn't heard from Andre Miller or Theo Ratliff since the last game. I guess blown up means the assumption that Miller won't be back. It references two article you all probably read already - here and here.

By: tk76

tk76 — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:46:13 +0000

”The 76ers may be totally blown up.”

Sounds interesting. I doubt they have some source that we have not heard about, but would like to here what it says.

By: Dave T

Dave T — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:31:45 +0000

ESPN INSIDER QUOTE…interesting:

So I was looking on ESPN’s NBA page today, and in the right corner where they list all the NBA headlines, the last one reads as follows: ”The 76ers may be totally blown up.”

Anyone have ESPN insider by any chance that could further elaborate on this link? Obviously any of the Insider taglines are going to be blatently exagerrated and set up to make you want to click the link…but still, I’m curious to hear a bit more detail about this one, who said it, what it meant, etc.

By: The Real Rob

The Real Rob — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:49:32 +0000

TickTock– tell me, whose time is up for the Hornets? And are there any deals involving the Sixers that are in the works for the summer. Is there a fire sale going on with the Hornets? Thanks man and welcome to the ReclinerGM Blog.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:04:23 +0000

Interesting stuff, Tick Tock. It gives me a glimmer of hope that a Dalembert trade could actually happen.

By: ticktock6

ticktock6 — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:47:19 +0000

Addendum, because I got off track re: the original post:

You want to get rid of your guy, and I bet the Hornets would do this trade if Philly offered it. If I know them, though, they wouldn’t use Dalembert as a backup. They’d use it to cheaply dump Tyson Chandler for other pieces (like they already tried to do with the OKC trade). If CP can make Dalembert better than he is, it gets rid of Peja’s contract AND solves the “but if we trade Tyson b/c of his salary, we cannot compete with Hilton Armstrong as our starting center!” problem.