Clippers: Clippers and Magic to swap Bledsoe/Butler for Afflalo on Thursday

[Rogue]

bledsoe has no outside game, just a smaller demonkey Jordan. Afflalo ain't the best player of this position but at least he has every skill a SG is supposed to have

[Leon Black]

Lateral move
Clippers
destined to be mediocre forever

[JMarkJohns]

Solid trade for Clippers, but they should press for inclusion of 2nd-rounder. They could really benefit from acquiring a few 31-45 range picks and taking a very skill-specific player, IE Withey (shot blocking C) or Bullock (D and 3 SF), should either fall, or Murphy (stretch PF), or Snell (dribble drive athletic guard).

They can provide quality depth, and, energy for a team that's getting old quick.

[Clipper Nation]

Now the Orlando media is saying the Magic could be shipping out Andrew Nicholson and a first-round pick along with Afflalo in exhange for Bledsoe and Caron.... Orlando would be getting fleeced, imho....

[djohn2oo8]

Now the Orlando media is saying the Magic could be shipping out Andrew Nicholson and a first-round pick along with Afflalo in exhange for Bledsoe and Caron.... Orlando would be getting fleeced, imho....

WTF Hennigan?

[benefactor]

But the long-awaited arrival of Doc Rivers as the Clippers' new coach and senior vice president of basketball operations could push any Bledsoe trade into July -- or maybe even longer -- because Rivers is a well-known Bledsoe fan who has indicated he'd like to keep Bledsoe around if possible.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/s...-magic-sources

if Rivers sabotages this trade

[TIMMYtoZO]

at the people praising the Clippers for this trade. It really doesn't make them all that much better. Just 2 role players being traded for another role player.

Also, at the people praising a Clippers teams with KG/Pierce on it. Two old players on the decline hardly makes them scary. Blake Griffin's game is so flawed it's painful to watch, and we all know pg's leading teams are destined to fail.

Again, at all of this love for the Clippers over 3 players and an overrated coach who won't really make much of a difference.

[benefactor]

Dc sabotage complete.

[Clipper Nation]

Holding out for an Aldridge trade, maybe?

[~O~]

Arron Afflalo wasn't playing hard because the Magic were tanking. At the beginning of the season, he was a great defender. In fact he was one of the main players pissed that we were tanking and pissed at losing. That guy barely smiles.

Nobody knows how the Eric Bledsoe trade would really work for us ...which I find pretty relieving. Only a few have guessed and guessed correctly.