OFFICIAL: Kings trade Webber to Philly!!!!!
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Yeah.. I was looking forward to that.
As far as another trade tomorrow, I think it's unlikely. If something was going to happen it would've happened all at once. GP said his piece, and there is no reason to get the media together today and then once again tomorrow.
Maybe Petrie will surprise us but it's not looking like it. This will probably be our team for the rest of the year, and who knows what will happen in the off season.
As far as another trade tomorrow, I think it's unlikely. If something was going to happen it would've happened all at once. GP said his piece, and there is no reason to get the media together today and then once again tomorrow.
Maybe Petrie will surprise us but it's not looking like it. This will probably be our team for the rest of the year, and who knows what will happen in the off season.
love_them_kings said:
do we have an award around here for best first posts?
bl4 - I strongly suggest you read the rules of the house. You are NOT going to come here and, as a newbie, decide to make snide comments about those of us who have been here a long time.
Your future on this board is up to you. One more lame comment and your future will be your past.
I won't sit here and say that I didn't bash the Kings just as much as every other Laker fan, but at the end of the day I think that the Kings players earned respect from a lot of fans around the league.
It seemed like Kings basketball was defined by Webber, whose flair for making the extra pass made the Kings fun to watch. In the best days, the Kings moved the ball better than any team in the league and had a chemistry that hadn't been seen in a long time. That chemistry seemed to drop off over the past couple of seasons, but every once in awhile we still saw flashes of it.
Without Webber they are still the Kings, but it really does seem like the end of an era. The Lakers and Kings had a rivalry for the ages, and now both teams have seen their squads depleted by poor trades. Hopefully sometime soon both squads will be back at the top of the Western Conference, where they should be.
I think, well at least I hope, I speak for a lot of Lakers fans when I say that during the rivalry I disliked the Kings, but I respected them. I think that's the best compliment a team can get coming from a fan of a rival team, and that is certainly what it is meant to be.
It seemed like Kings basketball was defined by Webber, whose flair for making the extra pass made the Kings fun to watch. In the best days, the Kings moved the ball better than any team in the league and had a chemistry that hadn't been seen in a long time. That chemistry seemed to drop off over the past couple of seasons, but every once in awhile we still saw flashes of it.
Without Webber they are still the Kings, but it really does seem like the end of an era. The Lakers and Kings had a rivalry for the ages, and now both teams have seen their squads depleted by poor trades. Hopefully sometime soon both squads will be back at the top of the Western Conference, where they should be.
I think, well at least I hope, I speak for a lot of Lakers fans when I say that during the rivalry I disliked the Kings, but I respected them. I think that's the best compliment a team can get coming from a fan of a rival team, and that is certainly what it is meant to be.
You do not even want to go there right now. I am not saying that Brad, Bibby and Cat are worthless. I am saying that right now they are a ship without a rudder, a team literally without a leader.
Webber was a major part of this team, on and off the court. He was responsible for the warrior attitude and he did everything he could to keep the team fired up when he himself couldn't be out there.
Don't dump the season? Have you looked at the competion? We are not going to beat the Suns, or the Spurs, or quite probably the Mavericks or even the TWolves with the huge gaping hole we have at the 4. If we move MIller to the 4, then who in God's name do we start as center?
This trade did not make us more competitive. It did not make us better. It did not equip us to beat the teams in the West we've had trouble beating this year.
It sucks.
Webber was a major part of this team, on and off the court. He was responsible for the warrior attitude and he did everything he could to keep the team fired up when he himself couldn't be out there.
Don't dump the season? Have you looked at the competion? We are not going to beat the Suns, or the Spurs, or quite probably the Mavericks or even the TWolves with the huge gaping hole we have at the 4. If we move MIller to the 4, then who in God's name do we start as center?
This trade did not make us more competitive. It did not make us better. It did not equip us to beat the teams in the West we've had trouble beating this year.
It sucks.
I've been away all evening, and just checked in to spend half an hour trying to read this thread. I see most of you are unhappy/angry/pissed/spitting mad, but I guess I'm just a realist. Although I'm sad to see Webber go, I've already written off this year as the beginning of a rebuilding mode, so I'm not really that surprised. I've seen other sports teams built, succeed to some extent, then be torn apart only to be rebuilt into contenders again. For me, this is just another phase of the cycle, the down that inevitably follows the up. Also, with all the heartache we've been through with this team, perhaps I've emotionally detached a bit too much to feel much pain on this.
That having been said, I am, and always will be a Kings fan.
That having been said, I am, and always will be a Kings fan.
Yep. For better or worse, this is now Pedja's team. He had BETTER step up and act the part. The gloves are off. He has no free passes coming. He wanted to be the big man and he's the last remnant of the team that ... ah, crap I'm gonna start crying again.
Pedja is the last remnant of the team that first got us so excited and so proud and so united. Jason, gone. Vlade, gone. Doug, gone. Webber, gone.
I LOVE THIS TEAM but I really, really, really, really hate the empty feeling I have right now.
Peja - You had better not let us down.
Pedja is the last remnant of the team that first got us so excited and so proud and so united. Jason, gone. Vlade, gone. Doug, gone. Webber, gone.
I LOVE THIS TEAM but I really, really, really, really hate the empty feeling I have right now.
Peja - You had better not let us down.
I'm going to stop because you're starting to really annoy me. We weren't going to beat them? We stood a lot better chance yesterday than we do today.
But whatever. You are entitled to your opinion. Please do not respond. I do not want to start saying things I will undoubtedly regret at some later date.
But whatever. You are entitled to your opinion. Please do not respond. I do not want to start saying things I will undoubtedly regret at some later date.
This article was on yahoo sports. Read the last paragraph about what a fine player we lost.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- All-Star Chris Webber was traded from Sacramento to the Philadelphia 76ers late Wednesday night as part of a stunning six-player deal.
The Sixers sent Brian Skinner, Kenny Thomas and Corliss Williamson to the Kings for Webber, Matt Barnes and Michael Bradley.
The Sixers called a news conference just before midnight. The deal comes one day before the NBA trading deadline.
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Sixers president Billy King was looking to make a deal to improve the Sixers frontcourt as they make their playoff push. The Sixers are 26-27 and just a half game behind Boston for first place in the Atlantic Division.
Kings general manager Geoff Petrie had been shopping Webber, who has three years about $62 million left on his contract. The Kings are 34-20 going and are 7 1/2 games behind Phoenix in the Pacific Division.
King insisted he wouldn't part with any of his prized nucleus of young players to make a deal and he didn't have to.
Thomas had fallen out of favor with first-year Sixers coach Jim O'Brien, while Brian Skinner was a free-agent bust. Corliss Williamson was a valuable sixth man off the bench, but none of them have the pedigree of Webber.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- All-Star Chris Webber was traded from Sacramento to the Philadelphia 76ers late Wednesday night as part of a stunning six-player deal.
The Sixers sent Brian Skinner, Kenny Thomas and Corliss Williamson to the Kings for Webber, Matt Barnes and Michael Bradley.
The Sixers called a news conference just before midnight. The deal comes one day before the NBA trading deadline.
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Sixers president Billy King was looking to make a deal to improve the Sixers frontcourt as they make their playoff push. The Sixers are 26-27 and just a half game behind Boston for first place in the Atlantic Division.
Kings general manager Geoff Petrie had been shopping Webber, who has three years about $62 million left on his contract. The Kings are 34-20 going and are 7 1/2 games behind Phoenix in the Pacific Division.
King insisted he wouldn't part with any of his prized nucleus of young players to make a deal and he didn't have to.
Thomas had fallen out of favor with first-year Sixers coach Jim O'Brien, while Brian Skinner was a free-agent bust. Corliss Williamson was a valuable sixth man off the bench, but none of them have the pedigree of Webber.
Yeah, okay. Fine.
Sorry, but I wasn't really ready to flush this season down the drain until a few hours ago.
You don't replace a 20/10/5 PF with Darius Songaila. If you do, you might as well just tie some raw meat around his neck and throw him in the shark tank.
Darius against Kevin Garnett? OH yeah. I'm sure KG is quaking in his boot. Darius against Tim Duncan? Right. Darius against virtually any of the strong PFs in the league and he's toast. You don't take a kid and all of a sudden thrust him into a starting role to take the place of a Chris Webber. Well, not if you care about him anyway.
I feel sorry for the whole team. The obvious message Petrie just sent to all of them is that they weren't good enough so they might as well blow up the team now and not even TRY to get to the playoffs and see how they could do.
Sorry, but I wasn't really ready to flush this season down the drain until a few hours ago.
You don't replace a 20/10/5 PF with Darius Songaila. If you do, you might as well just tie some raw meat around his neck and throw him in the shark tank.
Darius against Kevin Garnett? OH yeah. I'm sure KG is quaking in his boot. Darius against Tim Duncan? Right. Darius against virtually any of the strong PFs in the league and he's toast. You don't take a kid and all of a sudden thrust him into a starting role to take the place of a Chris Webber. Well, not if you care about him anyway.
I feel sorry for the whole team. The obvious message Petrie just sent to all of them is that they weren't good enough so they might as well blow up the team now and not even TRY to get to the playoffs and see how they could do.
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