"In retrospect, King won the Williams' trade in a landslide."

[zman1527]

If the Jazz had a different coach, this would be a much different discussion.

Favors - 21 mpg...

The author agrees with you I think:

"Favors and Kanter both have unquestioned potential to become solid NBA bigs, but remaining behind Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap on the depth chart has surely stunted their development. "

 

[framer]

Balderdash. Ant time your point guard is making the max, you are in trouble. Unless he is Magic Johnson. Deron was a good maybe great player, but he wasn't the central building block to championship team. Any guy who isn't that, is making a max salary, and may not stick around, especially in a small market NEEDS to be traded if you can get equal or superior value. We certainly did that, so we won. Have the writer get back to us in two years when the Nets are fighting for the 4th playoff slot in salary cap Hell, and the Jazz are at parity record-wise with young talent and cap space (or possibly Max talent at a position that wins championships.) Some NBA teams have been trying to get to where the Jazz are at for a decade. It took us two years. KOC earns his money.

 

[framer]

So I guess I am a hack. Three other people just said the same thing while I typed the last response. I would rep you all if I actually possessed the ability.

 

[framer]

I am learning the art of the cheap, stat-padding reply. I will arrive at respectability soon.

 

[Monte666]

Lets see they got dwill and perpetual wrist problems we got two young studs in the front court. If thats winning in jersey i have some more things to trade

From my Damn phone

 

[Jazz Punk Rocker]

We could have "won" this trade more if we chose wiser when we had their #3 overall pick.

 

[Golfman]

They may have kept D-Will, but they are not real contenders. Destined to be like Atlanta, a perennial 4-6 seed in the East who can't get past the 2nd round. They are too bogged down with bad contracts. I guess that beats not getting D-Will and being at the bottom of the East.

 

[nightmare3983]

So I guess I am a hack. Three other people just said the same thing while I typed the last response. I would rep you all if I actually possessed the ability.

I had to rep you for this.

 

[A-Train (old)]

Deron Williams

for

Derrick Favors #3 pick in 2010
Enes Kanter #3 pick in 2011
Marvin Williams
Golden State's 2013 first-round pick

Marvin Williams was also the #2 pick 2005 and hasn't reached his full potential yet and I think a change of scenery is exactly what he needed and the expectations are not near as high as they were in Atlanta. Golden State's pick is top 6 protected this year which is still pretty good considering the top-10 for the draft this year is going to be stronger than this years.

You tell me who won the trade? Deron Williams wasn't going to re-sign here anyways so it was smart of KOC to get something for him and we got a future all-star in Favors who will be the Jazz best player in a year or two and Kanter who has a lot of potential to be a good starting center in this league. Brooklyn will be lucky to be in the top-three in the East and since the Nets missed out on Dwight Howard their team doesn't look so great with a massively overpaid Joe Johnson and they also overpaid for Gerald Wallace, Brook Lopez, and Kris Kardashian.

Jazz won this trade in my opinion.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Both sides "won". I would say the Nets are the bigger winners because they achieved what they set out to do, get and retain a superstar who could attract other superstars. Dwill got Dwight saying "only Brookyln" for a pretty long time and they only had to give up 2 high risk/high reward big men, a washed up PG, and a future late lottery pick to get it.

 

[jazzfan1971]

Nets did well, but, they were playing with fire. It could easily have blown up in their faces.

 

[t.work]

I can guarantee you one thing: The Nets' front office has lost a lot more sleep than the Jazz's front office since the trade went down.