Ha Ha Ha Ha...aaaaarrrrrghhh

[Noah Evans]

In ryan's defense, he said buy *high* sell *low*. ;)

Noah

On 1/12/07, Berry, Mark  S <berrym at battelle.org> wrote:
> If Steve Blake is what they get when they sell Boykins high, I'd hate to
> see what they'd get if they had sold him low. (Insert Sebastian Telfair
> joke here)
>
> The Iverson-ization of the Nuggets begins. Pretty soon they'll be
> trading JR Smith for an Aaron McKie type who only cares about defense.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
> Behalf Of ryanmnelson at verizon.net
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:13 AM
> To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Re: Ha Ha Ha Ha...aaaaarrrrrghhh
>
> The Nuggets dealt Boykins for 2 reasons.
>
> 1.  avoidance of the luxury tax
>
> 2.  the whole buy high sell low thing.  Boykins is averaging 23 points
> per game, something that will unlikely keep up now that JR Smith is back
> and with Carmelo set to return.  They need fewer scorers, hence a
> marginal back-up pg like blake who will be happy to set up teammates.
> Selling Boykins high was a good move and Milwaukee really needs him with
> Redd and Williams out.  Pretty decent trade all around, fits both team's
> needs.  If allen hadn't hurt his knee, i was hoping Danny would sell him
> high as well (pun unintentional).
>
> rmn
>
> >From: Steve Ouellette <bosox18 at charter.net>
> >Date: 2007/01/12 Fri AM 07:51:33 CST
> >To: The Boston Celtics Mailing List <celtics at igtc.com>
> >Subject: Re: Ha Ha Ha Ha...aaaaarrrrrghhh
>
> >In addition to the whole 11-foot backcourt problem, the Nuggets dealt
> Boykins to stay out of luxury tax range.
> >
> >Steve O
> >
> >---- "Ryan wrote:
> >> So I'm wondering how come we didn't get into the Earl Boykins
> sweepstakes, I
> >> mean Sebastian Telfair MUST be better then Steve Blake as trade bait
> >> right???....oh, errrr, right, Mr Telfair got beat out on the worst
> team in
> >> the league last year by Mr Blake didn't he? Sorry, my bad.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Interesting how the Nuggets got rid of arguably their best tempo
> changing
> >> guard, averaging 15 points a game, once Iverson got there for a more
> >> defensive minded, "spot up shooter" type in Blake huh? Another
> example of
> >> the league going away from team basketball in favor of isolation,
> >> star-centric policies. This isn't a knock on Blake, who an okay
> backup guy
> >> with some vision, but Boykins, despite his size, was a game changer
> almost
> >> every time he stepped on the floor consistently pushing tempo and
> creating
> >> mismatches on the offensive end. Gratis, he was a defensive
> liability,
> >> especially paired with another small SG in Iverson and that's how the
> move
> >> will be defended by the Nuggets and Denver media, but why give up
> such a
> >> talented backup for a less talented one that likely WON'T make up
> those 15
> >> points due to his better defense?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyway, I'd love to have Boykins on the Cs as a backup guy instead of
> >> Telfair. Too bad we didn't keep our draft pick and pursue such a
> trade this
> >> year.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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