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Keep it goin miami... hot potato hot potato
to Miami for Mark Blount according to Yahoo! twitter.
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Keep it goin miami... hot potato hot potato
LA Lakers?
Word has just been released that the Timberwolves players signed on for it...but they thought it was a different blunt they were getting in return.
Clippers to Suns to Knicks to Grizzlies to Clippers to Timberwolves to Heat
6 more teams and the WNBA tour is complete
If the Heat are stupid enough to take Sasha and Adam for him I'm down.
per Yahoo on Twitter:The Heat do plan to keep Q-Rich and will play him some serious minutes, a source said.
just a joke but Q-Rich may be the first player to be apart of all 30 NBA teams in his career.
that source is probably q-richardson to keep his self esteem up
haha wow. is this a new record for trades in an off season for one player?
I don't see what's wrong. at least he ended up in miami and not in MInesota or Milwakee
Expected trade. Miami had too many useless centers and the SF can be shared by James Jones and Quentin Richardson.
Heat acquire Richardson for Blount
By Tim Reynolds
Quentin Richardson and Dwyane Wade are regular workout partners during the offseason. They’re about to get a chance to play together all year long.
Richardson’s wild summer tour of the NBA continued Thursday night, when he was traded by the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Miami Heat for center Mark Blount.
Richardson spent the last four seasons with the New York Knicks and now has been traded four times in less than two months: to Memphis on draft night, then to the Los Angeles Clippers, then to Minnesota and now to Miami.
“We are very excited to add Quentin Richardson,” Heat president Pat Riley said. “Over the course of his career, he has proven to be a fierce compe or, a great locker room presence and a very prolific 3-point shooter who may be one of the strongest perimeter players in the NBA. We feel that he will be able to match-up well against the top scorers in the league.”
Richardson is due to earn about $9 million this season. Blount was to make around $7.9 million.
“Who would of ever thought we would play 2gether. Let’s get it,” Wade wrote on his Twitter feed, welcoming Richardson to the Heat family.
Getting Richardson could help the Heat in a number of ways.
Miami had four centers on the roster, and Blount was easily the most disposable of that group. Wade, the reigning NBA scoring champion, hasn’t been shy about clamoring for roster upgrades in recent months—and he almost certainly wouldn’t have any objections about the acquisition of one of his good friends. And Richardson figures to give the Heat extra depth at small forward, meaning the plan to have Michael Beasley play more minutes at that spot in 2009 instead of power forward now may be closer to being on hold.
Blount spent 1 1/2 seasons in Minnesota before coming to the Heat, starting 81 games for the Timberwolves in the 2006-07 season and averaging 12.3 points. A change of scenery could do him some good; Blount only played in 20 games for Miami last season, missing much of the year tending to personal and family matters following the death of a close relative in Haiti.
Riley said he thanked Blount for his contributions.
“He provided a solid veteran presence to our team the past two years,” Riley said.
Minnesota now has only one true shooting guard on the roster—rookie Wayne Ellington.
Given the Wolves’ current youth movement and the fact that they already have Al Jefferson and Ryan Hollins at the center position, it seems feasible that Blount may be moved again before the team opens training camp.
Timberwolves president David Kahn has spent much of his first summer on the job making a series of calculated trades, not so much for the value they bring on the court, but for the financial flexibility it brings to the team.
Like Richardson, Blount also is in the final year of his deal. Kahn could to move him elsewhere for a cheaper player, or combination of players, that will save the Timberwolves some money this season and keep them in a position to be a major buyer on the 2010 free-agent market.
I say that he goes to Oklahoma next.
"Blount only played in 20 games for Miami last season, missing much of the year tending to personal and family matters following the death of a close relative in Haiti."
Heat now have quite overcrowded the SF spot.
Wade and Cook will take all minutes at SG, so
Q-Rich, James Jones, Dorell Wright, Diawara will play only at SF and Beasley will also eat some minutes at the 3. but the Heat are pretty thin at PG and in the front court.
some more moves will happen.
(Spurs were interested in either Jones, Wright and Cook in the past. just saying)
i have it on good authority that he will me traded to the Harlem Globetrotters for the rights to the scooby doo episodes the trotters starred in, in the 70's.
JR was traded to the Bulls from New Orleans, where he played a couple of YEARS, so Denver would be considered his third team.
but the offseason aint over yet...
Olympiakos!
KBP in 3... 2... 1...
Send him back to pho, I don't mind him lightin' it up... Been so long, i can't remember if he plays d at all though. Probly not...
I thought Q-Rich was your perimeter defender in 2005.
Hey, at least he's on a team that's going to make some noise next year...err..that is if he doesn't get traded again.
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