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Sports Illustrated Writer Ian Thomsen has a trade proposition for the Thunder before Feb Deadline

smithforatkinsIn the December 29th Edition of Sports Illustrated, Ian Thomsen wrote an interesting article about five trades that NBA teams should make before the February deadline. Number five on that list included one of our boys, and our team. Ian suggests the Nuggets should go after Thunder forward, and former #1 overall pick, Joe "Automatic" Smith, to bolster their bench for the playoffs. Included in the deal for the Thunder would be guard Chucky Atkins as well as the Nuggets first round draft pick in June, which would give the Thunder 3 first round picks, and also save the team 1.6 Million in salary this season. Click read more to hear our thoughts on this proposed SI Trade.


As far as the Smith V Atkins part of the deal, there is no question that the Nuggets get the better end of that deal, but looking at the current state of the team, it might not be a bad idea to shed some salary and add another first round pick in next years draft. That could really allow the Thunder some more options come draft time. They could use their two later first round pick to try and trade up to get another early pick to go along with their sure 1st overall pick (we hope, stupid lottery). Another option would be to use one of the three first round picks to pull off a trade for a player of need.


Overall, I wouldn't actually expect to see this deal happen, but you never know, Smith has been rumored to be available for trade along with Watson, and Wilcox, and the Nuggets could definitely use a big man off of the bench. I guess we've grown a little attached to Joe Automatic this season and just don't like to see him go, but we also knew when we acquired him that it would be a short lived stay with the team.


Its definitely going to be interesting to see what Presti does with the roster before the February trading deadline.

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Just what we need, another backup point guard. Sheesh. SI calls this worth reading? Why would we want a draft pick in the late, late first round? You have to give them a guaranteed contract. Much better is an early second rounder which gets no guarantees. So what we get here is another backup pg, for one very serviceable big man, and a late first rounder. I wouldn’t even consider this unless they take a bad contract from us…like Earl. Earl Makes 6 mil for two more. Atkins makes 3. If they take Earl, then I am okay with it.

Also, we don’t have two first rounders this year unless it is below 15 for the Spurs. The first we got from them is top 15 protected this year, and top 10 next.

We do have the Suns unprotected first next year.

Joe’s last blog post..Thunder 88, Pistons 90-post game wrap

by Joe on Dec 27, 2008 9:54 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, I definitely didn’t understand why he thinks the Thunder would want Atkins at all. Personally I’d rather see Kyle Weaver get more playing time. I’m hoping they ditch Watson as well, I used to like him in Seattle, but he’s just not playing up to his salary and quite frankly he takes too much time away from Russel Westbrooks development at point guard.

by Pappagiorgio on Dec 27, 2008 11:47 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

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