NBA

NBA Mega-Trades

I’m really loving all these trades we have been seeing these last few days. Contrary to many casual NBA fans, I think this is quite good for the league. With the Knicks acquiring Carmelo Anthony, they jump up a few spots in the East to potentially the number 4 seed. Once ‘Melo and Amar’e start to gain some cohesiveness, they will be a force to reckon with, the Garden is not somewhere you want to be playing a road playoff game come May and June.

Of course, Deron Williams being shipped to the Nets came out of left field, and I really don’t see how this helps the Jazz. They got rid of an elite point guard for an average player in Devin Harris, and the organization must really be banking on Derrick Favors to be the next big thing, even though he has shown few flashes of what is to come. I do think it is quite suspicious that Williams found out about the trade while watching Sportscenter in the weight room with his teammates. There may be more to this then we think, or it may just be nothing.

Like my man Danny Brains tweeted earlier, I am stoked for the Eastern conference playoffs, almost every matchup is enticing, you of course have the Celtics, Heat, and Bulls at the top, then you have the Knicks, Hawks and Magic creeping up from the pack. We will finally have great first round matchups excluding the 7 and 8 spots, but I’m sure we can all deal with that.

But suddenly, the West is hurting quite a bit, and they have reverted from their seemingly every playoff team reaching 50 wins. Two regular contenders in the Jazz and Nuggets have completely gutted their teams in the last week, and they both may still make the playoffs, but they will fall to the way side very quickly. Only the Lakers, Spurs, Thunder, and Mavericks are legitimate teams to compete for a title.

With all these trades, I am extremely excited for the playoffs to begin, and I will be ordering my DVR very soon and be ready to overload it with insane amounts of intense postseason ball.