A TRADE HAPPENED!!!!

RIPskaterdude · Post #1 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:14 am

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
Some news after flight No. 2: Raptors & Kings have struck a deal to send James Johnson to Sacramento for future second-rounder #inglaterra

Ladies and gents, your future starting SF!!

:lol:

RIPskaterdude · Post #2 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:15 am

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
Look for that one to be finalized Monday. Kings to add Johnson on last-year deal for their frontcourt rotation. Raps to shed a $2.8M salary
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11m Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
Some news after flight No. 2: Raptors & Kings have struck a deal to send James Johnson to Sacramento for future second-rounder ‪#inglaterra‬

OH MY GOD THIS IS AWESOME!!! HAHAHAHA JAMES JOHNSON!!!

RIPskaterdude · Post #3 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:16 am

That's our offseason. Good night everybody, you've been great!

Post #4 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:17 am

Post #5 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:18 am

RIPskaterdude · Post #6 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:19 am

Johnson isn't a small forward or a point guard. And he's not a point guard.

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/sports/kings/ar ... rylink=cpy

Post #7 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:21 am

Post #8 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:22 am

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:
Johnson isn't a small forward or a point guard. And he's not a point guard.

Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/sports/kings/ar ... rylink=cpy

FWIW, I think that's Jason Jones being delirious at this hour. James Johnson is a SF. He's just a garbage one.

RIPskaterdude · Post #9 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:25 am

Why the hell would we do this instead of just re-signing T-Will? We would have got the same production from T-Will, and especially after Cousins publicly came out and said he wanted him back.

RIPskaterdude · Post #10 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:25 am

Jason Jones ‏@mr_jasonjones
I stand corrected. Johnson has played SF, it is 1:20 am here.
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RIPskaterdude · Post #11 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:26 am

We're done for the off season though. No more $$$ to do anything moving forward, I'm sure. SF is all set with Salmons, Johnson and Garcia. :lol:

RIPskaterdude · Post #12 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:27 am

And again, another player who needs the ball in his hands to be successful. There's a reason why he was traded to Toronto and was quickly benched and forgotten about there.

Post #13 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:28 am

Let's keep in mind this appears to also be why we traded our second rounder for nothing this year. So we could trade another second rounder for James "Playing in the d-league as a 24 year old wing, 49% TS last year" Johnson.

RIPskaterdude · Post #14 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:31 am

At least we won't have to worry about being disappointed next draft when we trade another high 2nd round pick for cash.

By the way, JJ is a career 30% 3PT shooter. But hey, at least it's an improvement over Salmons.... :blank:

Post #15 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:31 am

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:And again, another player who needs the ball in his hands to be successful. There's a reason why he was traded to Toronto and was quickly benched and forgotten about there.

That's not fair. He's not successful with the ball in his hands either.

Post #16 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:32 am

I'm really thinking the game has just passed Petrie by.

RIPskaterdude · Post #17 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:36 am

He had a decent season with the Raptors last year, but he needed to take 7-8 shots per game to average 9 points. So another mouth to feed in Sacramento...

RIPskaterdude · Post #18 » by **RIPskaterdude** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:39 am

Sam Amick ‏@sam_amick
The second-round pick the Kings gave to Toronto in exchange for James Johnson, source says, was for 2014. Nice pickup, I say.

At least we didn't give up anything for him and he expires at the end of this season, but I can't imagine Cousins is going to be happy about this. He's 6'9" and the Raptors fans said he was their best defensive player last season, so looks like the Kings were going for a black AK-47 with his height/size.

Post #19 » by **KF10** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:40 am

Wait, we didn't go after Dorell Wright because "he didn't seem a big enough upgrade with our current SFs" but trade for James Johnson!?!?

WTF???

We could have gotten Dorell Wright for peanuts (could have given a future 2nd just like with this JJ trade) but Petrie thought JJ >> Wright apparently.

Is this our "big changes will come" from Petrie from all of that talk in the last couple of days?? ***** this ****!!!

T-Will >> JJ

Post #20 » by **pillwenney** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:41 am

xx_skaterdude_xx wrote:He had a decent season with the Raptors last year, but he needed to take 7-8 shots per game to average 9 points. So another mouth to feed in Sacramento...

That makes the season not decent.