Woj: Nets trade Bogdanovic to Wizards

[sashae]

Honestly more excited about McCullough...

[stevemcqueen1]

Ernie is the master of buying high on players having years where you normally would buy low. Bogdanovich = an expiring playing 27 inefficient minutes a night for the worst team in the league. Markieff Morris = a player in the middle of a disastrous season where he played like ****, feuded with teammates and his coach and Phoenix was desperate to get rid of him.

[Meliorus]

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Honestly Nicholson could put up similar stats as Boban on the Nets. We got the worst player in the trade.

As the saying goes, a trash team's treasure is probably trash.

[Paradise]

Nicholson + 2017 first for Bogdanovic and Chris McCullough

Barf. I was right about them trying to dump Nicholson at least. Bogdanovic sucks, McCullough is interesting but not good enough to lose a 2017 first.

I'm not crazy right?? I feel like the only one who thought this deal was awful. Bogdanovic is a dreadful defense player, even for Nets standards. Chris is interesting, but it's concerning that he couldn't get minutes on the Nets. Will take a look at what the Nets board thinks.

He's a project. He's got upside to be a shot blocking stretch four but he doesn't rebound consistently even under our D-league team. He's averaging 19/9 as a Long Island Net.

The issue with him is strength. He's still lacking the ability to set quality screens but the offensive talent is there. I think our GM dealt him based off need and the fact our FO believes Hollis-Jefferson's long term position is Power Forward. We didn't have room to develop McCullough. He may need a couple seasons or so to show he can contribute.


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[Wizardspride]

I don't love it but I don't hate it either.

In part because I'm intrigued by McCullough's upside.

Get me a guard and I'll feel better.

[Rafael122]

So a few things are obvious here, Nicholson was always going to be attached to the pick.

The Lakers weren't going to add an additional 2-3 years worth of salary in exchange for Lou Williams.

The price on Barton and Chandler must be sky high, probably would have had to include Oubre in there.

I would hope Washington isn't done. They could still package Burke and a second for more firepower.

[nate33]

this **** sucks

the guy is going to be a free agent this summer and there's no guarantee we keep him

WHAT THE **** MAN

Oh, we definitely aren't keeping him. This was a salary dump, pure and simple. EG just figured he'd do it now instead of in the offseason so at least he could benefit from having a halfway competent Bogdanovic for the remainder of the season.

[Upper Decker]

This deal sucks, but I guess it was destined to happen the moment we paid so much for Mahinmi/Nicholson/Smith. There's no way to sugar coat it. EG sacrificed a 1st round pick in a good draft to avoid the luxtax and picked up a half decent rental in the process. Why oh why won't Ted fire EG?

My biggest problem with the trade itself is that I don't think we are in much need of another 2/3. We certainly don't need one as badly as we need a backup PG.

How many times now has EG sacrificed a 1st round pick to avoid paying the luxtax and/or pick up rentals? The Crittenton trade, the Etan / Songaila trade. The Redskins in Vinny's heyday valued picks more than EG does.

[europeanfan]

Bogdanovic had to play vs starters, will be much more efficient off the bench. Like I said he's no Ginobili but he's more than qualified to play the Mike Miller/Kyle Korver role.

And he'll have Oubre next to him to guard the harder defensive matchup on the wing.

[Mojo Amok]

I wouldn't consider it a horrible trade just by itself with the Nets taking on about $20 million for a late first round pick*, but the merit of the trade is to clean up a mess made recently by the very man who's executing the trade.

I'm seeing the whole "bench help" pretext as being a clever ruse.

I do think people are somewhat underrating Bojangles, though. I accidentally forgot to erase the recent Nets game, which I watched a bit of after hearing the rumors. He's not too bad and could easily go up in efficiency if receiving less defensive attention - he can certainly shoot and has some fairly deceptive ability to put the ball on the floor. He is a bad defender, but I think a bigger issue is that he really doesn't look anything like a 2-guard with his body type.

Anyway, the merits of Bojangles seem well secondary to just dumping Nicholson in a manner that's murky enough in basketball terms to confuse at least some of the critics. Classic Grunfeld.

*ok, while also gaining the services of Huckleberry Hound for 3 years.

[J-Ves]

Bogdanovic had to play vs starters, will be much more efficient off the bench. Like I said he's no Ginobili but he's more than qualified to play the Mike Miller/Kyle Korver role.

And he'll have Oubre next to him to guard the harder defensive matchup on the wing.

This post has calmed be down. Thanks.

[Wizardspride]

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[Error Afflalo]

Pathetic like pretty much everything else Ernie does.

[gtn130]

Would be a great trade if EG's tenure began yesterday.

Problem is the need to offload Nicholson was caused by EG signing him in the first place.

[Upper Decker]

So a few things are obvious here, Nicholson was always going to be attached to the pick.

The Lakers weren't going to add an additional 2-3 years worth of salary in exchange for Lou Williams.

The price on Barton and Chandler must be sky high, probably would have had to include Oubre in there.

I would hope Washington isn't done. They could still package Burke and a second for more firepower.

I think EG is hoping the initial rumors of Evans getting waived come to fruition. If not that, he's banking on someone with a pulse getting waived. I'm sure this is how RC Buford operates.

[nate33]

If it turns out that Tyreke Evans gets cut, I'm gonna be real annoyed. I'd rather have him for free than Bodganovic for a 1st. Either way, I think we could have dumped Nicholson this offseason by using either the 2017 or 2018 pick.

[Mojo Amok]

this **** sucks

the guy is going to be a free agent this summer and there's no guarantee we keep him

WHAT THE **** MAN

I would say it's pretty much a guarantee that we don't keep Bojangles.

Edit: actually, if we ditched someone like Smith we might be able to keep him.

[BealsLegs]

Eh im not too mad

Nicolson has way to many years on his deal

Ill give a sato/bogan/oubre

Wing core a chance

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[Error Afflalo]

We've seen this before. We knew it was coming. And yet, it's still infuriating.

[MikeTheKid]

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