Big Balls traded to Boston for (almost) NOTHING
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We couldn't even get a freaking 2nd rounder?!
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I'm happy for JCraw.
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Halcyon wrote:We couldn't even get a freaking 2nd rounder?!
Just be happy Ernie didn't give up a 2nd rounder (or worse, an unprotected 1st) in this deal
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I don't get why you wouldn't just keep Crawford. Next time we play the Celtics, I'm betting he torches us.
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How does he have a job. I wonder what other GMs have to say about it him. Start a petition.
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mohammed10 wrote:Halcyon wrote:We couldn't even get a freaking 2nd rounder?!
Just be happy Ernie didn't give up a 2nd rounder (or worse, an unprotected 1st) in this deal
Honestly, I'm surprised Beal is still on the team.
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W. Unseld wrote:This strikes me as an ownership move, wanting to make absolutely sure the Wiz aren't paying the luxury tax. I question some of Ernie's moves but I don't think as a talent evaluater he equated Jordan Crawford to be worth absolutely nothing. This is ownership avoiding the luxury tax.
Which completely conflicts with trading an expiring for the huge contracts of Okafor and Ariza. The front office is either supremely short sited, or completely incompetent in their player acquisitions. Or both, more likely.
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Cash-saving move. Beal will start and we will continue to pick-up bench-scrubs from the FA/NBDL scarp-heap.
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Halcyon wrote:W. Unseld wrote:This strikes me as an ownership move, wanting to make absolutely sure the Wiz aren't paying the luxury tax. I question some of Ernie's moves but I don't think as a talent evaluater he equated Jordan Crawford to be worth absolutely nothing. This is ownership avoiding the luxury tax.
Which completely conflicts with trading an expiring for the huge contracts of Okafor and Ariza. The front office is either supremely short sited, or completely incompetent in their player acquisitions. Or both, more likely.
I would say/have said - both
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NortheastWiz wrote:How does he have a job. I wonder what other GMs have to say about it him. Start a petition.
Let's all sign and promote this petition to #FireErnie
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fireernie/
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pineappleheadindc wrote:NortheastWiz wrote:How does he have a job. I wonder what other GMs have to say about it him. Start a petition.
Let's all sign and promote this petition to #FireErnie
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fireernie/
Pine, I think you would have to fire Ted too. This is an ownership move to get under the luxury tax.
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A new big three has announced its arrival - Wall, Crawford and Blatche. Big minutes - big productivity - big results.
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W. Unseld wrote:pineappleheadindc wrote:NortheastWiz wrote:How does he have a job. I wonder what other GMs have to say about it him. Start a petition.
Let's all sign and promote this petition to #FireErnie
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fireernie/
Pine, I think you would have to fire Ted too. This is an ownership move to get under the luxury tax.
But didn't Ernie make moves like the OkaRiza trade to put us here in the first place?
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Let's all buy tickets to a Wizards home game on stubhub for 40 cents, cheer the following two chants:
In the 1st and 3rd QRT: "FI-RE ERNIE," *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP*
In the 2nd and 4th QRT: "TEDS' A CHEAPSKATE," *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP*
In the 1st and 3rd QRT: "FI-RE ERNIE," *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP*
In the 2nd and 4th QRT: "TEDS' A CHEAPSKATE," *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP*
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FAH1223 wrote:A new big three has announced its arrival - Wall, Crawford and Blatche. Big minutes - big productivity - big results.
Learning to Win
makes you horrified as to what we'd get in exchange for Wall. Somebody should told that Dorner dude that Ernie was the reason his life went to **** instead of the LAPD. I'M SO FRUSTRATED GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh
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GhostsOfGil wrote:mohammed10 wrote:Halcyon wrote:We couldn't even get a freaking 2nd rounder?!
Just be happy Ernie didn't give up a 2nd rounder (or worse, an unprotected 1st) in this deal
Honestly, I'm surprised Beal is still on the team.
I'm not, when EG refused to give up Beal for Harden it was clear. Hell will freeze over before Beal get's moved.
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Another "clever" trade by this front office.
Hard for me to believe there wasn't something better than this out there. Crawford stunk, but he's at least playable and worth a 2nd rounder at worst.
Hard for me to believe there wasn't something better than this out there. Crawford stunk, but he's at least playable and worth a 2nd rounder at worst.
Some random troll wrote:Not to sound negative, but this team is owned by an arrogant cheapskate, managed by a moron and coached by an idiot. Recipe for disaster.
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I have it on good authority that the deal included a number of round trip tickets to Europe for EFG's "scouting" trips so it's all good.
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A *glimmer* of hope?
League source said #wizards might get another player currently on BOS roster in addition to Leandro Barbosa, so...
A *glimmer* of hope?
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