Friday, December 4, 2009

New Teams


Shawn Marion and Hedo Turkoglu already have found new teams this offseason.


Hedo Turkoglu pulled a Carlos Boozer and went with the Raptors instead of the Blazers. Ron Artest and Trevor Ariza swapped teams. Birdman signed a 5 year contract with Denver. Jason Kidd decided to stay with Dallas instead of running off to New York. Mike Bibby ended up staying with the Hawks. The Mavs also signed Quinton Ross. Rasheed Wallace joined the Celtics. Anton! io McDyess went with San Antonio instead of Detroit. And m! any more things have happened or could happen.

Also, Shawn Marion was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in a 4-team trade.
At first, the Mavs and Raptors needed one more team to make the trade work. So, they got Memphis. And Memphis decided that they were going to get an Eastern Conference team to join in on it. It looked like Chicago would be involved to send veteran forward Tim Thomas to Dallas, but they pulled out of the trade, and the Orlando Magic came into the trade. This is how it all looked.

Dallas Mavericks get: F Shawn Marion, F Kris Humphries, G Greg Buckner, F/C Nathan Jawai, and cash considerations from Toronto.

Toronto Raptors get: F Devean George, G Antoine Wright.

Memphis Grizzlies get: F Jerry Stackhouse, Toronto future second round draft pick.

And Orlando got some extra cash, and also lost one of their key players, Hedo Turkoglu, to the Raptors.