Only Trade Peja If...

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He needs to step it up.

thenewdustdust said:
1) Peja Is Really Serious About Wanting Out By The End Of The Season. There Is No Use In Waiting 1 More Year So That Peja Will Become A Free Agent And Sign With Another Team. If The Kings Get Rid Of Peja, At Least Trade Him.

2) If Peja's Numbers (especially Fg%) Are Significantly Down, There Is No Reason Not To Trade Him.

3) If Peja Doesn't Have A Breakout Postseason, It Shows He Will Hurt The Team By Not Scoring Well. If Peja Lacks Consistency, He Has To Go...

However, If Peja's Number's Stay All-star Caliber And His Postseason Is A Success, Keep The Guy If He Wants To Stay. Remember, His Defense Is Constanly Improving And Is Known As A Defensive Stopper In Clutch Situations, So That Would Be Another Reason To Keep Him...
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If his production doesn't step up it may be a little harder to move him for anything of value. I think the Artest situation is unlikely, even with the mental issues he is probably one of the most valuable players in the league.
 
HndsmCelt said:
Maybe Pedja decided that if he had a terrible regular season he might be MVP of the post season?
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hehe i was thinking about that the other day.. just hope the whole team isnt thinking that way
 
HndsmCelt said:
Maybe Pedja decided that if he had a terrible regular season he might be MVP of the post season?
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If Pedja ends up being horrible in the regular season - there might not be a post season for the Kings.
 
http://proxy.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&id=1920625

By Chad Ford
NBA Insider

Chad Ford chats in SportsNation today at 1 p.m. ET.

One team is 4-1 and a contender for the Eastern Conference throne. The other is 1-4, and sinking fast in the wild, wild West.

Each has an All-Star small forward who has been an integral part of the team's success in the recent past – now it's time to trade them for each other.

Without delay, Kings GM Geoff Petrie and Pacers GM Larry Bird should pick up the phone, call each other and offer to rekindle talks of a Peja Stojakovic for Ron Artest trade.

Here's why:

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Predrag Stojakovic
Forward
Sacramento Kings
Profile


2004-2005 SEASON STATISTICS
GM PPG RPG APG FG% FT%
5 16.0 4.0 1.6 .346 .909
In Sacramento, Stojakovic's heart is not in it. After the team let Vlade Divac go this summer and turned the leadership of the team over to Chris Webber, Stojakovic wanted to bolt.

Through his agent, David Bauman, he asked to be traded, claiming he no longer felt comfortable on the team.

Through a month of training camp and the first two weeks of the season, it has shown. The trade request rankled the Kings, who got in several shouting matches with Bauman over the course of the summer. Stojakovic's teammates weren't pleased either. But it has had an even bigger effect on Peja.
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Anyone have espn insider???
 
Here's the thing, of the four most interesting made up trades that people came up with for Peja this summer (most interesting to me), only one seems as interesting/possible now:

1) Peja for Artest -- even this summer I said I wouldn't be interested unless Jonathon Bender was thrown in the deal too -- did not trust Artest and Bender might have as shot to replace Peja's offense. Now Artest is asking for time off to go record a rap album. How about we don't get the unfocused nut?

2) Peja for Kirilenko -- seemed unlikely the Jazz would be interested even this summer (which says all you need to know about Peja's MVP status), now with Utah's hot start and Peja's cold one, its impossible.

3) Peja (and presumably Doug/Martin) for Marion and Johnson -- again a trade idea predicated on the theory that Phoenix wanted to unload Marion's bloated contract and didn't really know how good Johnson was, and would be interested in bringing in Peja to balance the lineup. And again, with Phoenix's hot start, and Peja's cold one, even if it was ever possible, its not now.

4) Peja for Pierce -- predicated on Danny Ainge being an idiot perhaps. In any case, who knows whether its still possible.

Bottomline, even if we wanted to make a move, getting value would be very tough at the moment -- Peja certainly isn't upping his trade value right now. May never have been higher than last year just BEFORE the playoffs began. Been all downhill from there.
 
Not for Artest...

Did you hear about Artest's current troubles in Indiana? He has missed two games and might even miss another. Would you trust a guy who can't even get his act together and be competitive??? Anyways, AK-47 is the best defender in the NBA, not Artest, so I would rather trade Peja for Kirilenko.
 
thenewdustdust said:
Did you hear about Artest's current troubles in Indiana? He has missed two games and might even miss another. Would you trust a guy who can't even get his act together and be competitive??? Anyways, AK-47 is the best defender in the NBA, not Artest, so I would rather trade Peja for Kirilenko.
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And Jazz would do it because...
 
piksi said:
And Jazz would do it because...
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...Geoff Petrie has extensive collections of all of the league's GMs committing perverted acts with various farm animals? :D
 
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Bricklayer said:
...Geoff Petrie has extensive collections of all of the league's GMs committing perverted acts with various farm animals? :D
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Considering Predrag's performances in the first 5 games - it is not good enough. We are talking about Utah here.
 
Bricklayer said:
Here's the thing, of the four most interesting made up trades that people came up with for Peja this summer (most interesting to me), only one seems as interesting/possible now:

1) Peja for Artest -- even this summer I said I wouldn't be interested unless Jonathon Bender was thrown in the deal too -- did not trust Artest and Bender might have as shot to replace Peja's offense. Now Artest is asking for time off to go record a rap album. How about we don't get the unfocused nut?

2) Peja for Kirilenko -- seemed unlikely the Jazz would be interested even this summer (which says all you need to know about Peja's MVP status), now with Utah's hot start and Peja's cold one, its impossible.

3) Peja (and presumably Doug/Martin) for Marion and Johnson -- again a trade idea predicated on the theory that Phoenix wanted to unload Marion's bloated contract and didn't really know how good Johnson was, and would be interested in bringing in Peja to balance the lineup. And again, with Phoenix's hot start, and Peja's cold one, even if it was ever possible, its not now.

4) Peja for Pierce -- predicated on Danny Ainge being an idiot perhaps. In any case, who knows whether its still possible.

Bottomline, even if we wanted to make a move, getting value would be very tough at the moment -- Peja certainly isn't upping his trade value right now. May never have been higher than last year just BEFORE the playoffs began. Been all downhill from there.
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In the list, only Artest is possible right now. If Artest has no problem at all, the deal is also almost impossible.

Nobody think about Maggette? Another good match.
 
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