
Devean George, upon learning he can't veto the trade
Last week Bryan Colangelo brought in crazy eyed Hedo Turkoglu. This week he’s working to free some space to bring in some more help. Colangelo teamed up with the Dallas Mavs, Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic to complete a four-team deal last night, sending Shawn Marion and Kris Humphries to Dallas and picking up Devean George and Antoine Wright. Toronto also technically picks up Turkoglu from Orlando in a sign-and-trade, meaning they have their $5.9 million mid-level exemption to work with. The deal also allowed Marion to sign a five-year, $39 million deal — more than he was able to have picked up if he’d just signed as a free agent.
George, who famously exercised his “Larry Bird rights” last year to block Dallas’ original Jason Kidd trade (and subsequently shot 0-for-10 that night), must not be able to block the deal this time around. I always kind of thought of George as a pear-shaped loser, dating back to his days with the Shaq-era Lakers. In ten seasons, he’s never shot over 41% from the field or averaged more than 7.4 points. Oh well, that must mean he can play a little D. From what I’ve seen of Wright, he doesn’t have much of an offensive skill set either, so hopefully he provide some toughness as well. He’s likely to start at the two with Anthony Parker on his way to LeBron land.
Most importantly, the trade gives Colangelo a little more room to work with this summer, which means restricted free agent Carlos Delfino is most likely on board again after playing overseas in ’08-09.
Boy, Devean George has lost a LOT of hair.
By: wierzbicki on July 9, 2009
at 10:23 pm
That’s what they tell me!
By: Jeremy on July 10, 2009
at 3:33 pm
Actually, funny story about Devean George. We were at the beach and there was this dumb looking guy sitting near by. When he went in for a swim, me and my sons took all his stuff and threw it in the ocean!
By: Jeremy on July 10, 2009
at 9:14 pm
Colangelo is a GENIUS!!!! how he managed to make this trade and save all the money to sign carlos delfino. at least now we have some bench players. if not for the trade we would have been left with humphries, ukic, and voskul on our bench.
By: Ronny Avendano on July 13, 2009
at 4:06 pm
Yeah, the cap room is definitely the biggest addition in this trade, aside from Turkoglu of course…
By: Jeremy on July 13, 2009
at 4:53 pm