Your Josh Smith Trade Ideas

Josh Smith
Josh Smith, reading some of these ideas. (AP)

Selling High


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H/T @RajPrashad.

This is the ugly road I fear the Nets would inevitably have to go down to acquire a player as talented as Josh Smith. I see two schools of thought here: you believe Lopez is playing above his head and want to secure the most value for him as possible, and you do it; or, you think that Lopez is just a flat-out better, younger, cheaper (in the long-term) basketball player than Smith, and dealing Lopez leaves the Nets with a gaping hole at center roughly equivalent to the one they have at power forward now, just with less depth.

I’m in the latter. Pass.

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