Patrick O'Bryant for No One (Deal Fell Through)

[Sptsjunkie]

The Celtics have traded center Patrick O'Bryant to the Sacramento Kings.
According to an NBA source, the move was made for salary cap reasons and Boston will not get a player in return.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/57413/20090219/boston_trades_obryant_to_kings/

 

[Dreadnought]

Wtf?

 

[kingsnation]

ha, are you kidding me? For nothing? Is that even allowed? I will wait until someone else reports it..

 

[AriesMar27]

wow, petrie was active.... didnt accomplish anything worth mentioning but he was active.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Who do we cut? We were already full, right?

 

[Heuge]

Cool. Another contract next year.

 

[Lafayette]

I think it was part of the Sam Cassell deal, I read somewhere that another player was to be involved.

 

[Löwenherz]

So wait, teams can now just give each other players? Because I have a list of Kings I would liked to have seen that happen.

 

[jon e]

best thread title ever

 

[Gary]

Whats with the Kings getting all these lottery picks from the crappy draft year? First Shelden, then Simmons, and now O'Bryant?

 

[Spike]

Simmons makes sense. We get one Simmons in an effort to entice another one. Just like offering a college scholarship to a 5 star recruit's girlfriend.
O'Bryant is Irish, and from the Celtics to boot, so I guess he'll bring some good luck.



...In all seriousness, I got nuthin.

 

[Sptsjunkie]

Or not

Patrick O'Bryant might not be heading to Sacramento after all.
Word is they might be sending O'Bryant to the Toronto Raptors instead for guard Will Solomon.

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/57413/20090219/_obryant_to_kings_not_final/

 

[beb0p]

Whats with the Kings getting all these lottery picks from the crappy draft year? First Shelden, then Simmons, and now O'Bryant?

Do Petrie, trade for Saer Sene!

 

[barndoggie]

The O'Bryant deal may not be going down, as the Globe has changed its post to indicate its not final.
Now as for the Knicks talk, the Kings have been pursuing Nate Robinson and I should know in the next few minutes whether they can land him. While ESPN has reported they were turned down in a deal including Kenny Thomas going to New York for Robinson and Jared Jeffries, I just spoke with someone close to Robinson who said he had received a phone call from Mike D'Antoni, which could be the Knicks coach calling to tell him he'd been traded or perhaps not. We'll see.http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/019783.html

sam just bloged this

 

[Arby's Roast Beef]

Nice. A real sleeper here, and he started to grow on me with his potential (skillset+physical tools), and he fits our rebuilding process. I actually thought that the Celts were trying to groom him (they are sorely lacking in height, and Kendrick Perkins, while young, is pretty much what he is right now--just a defensive stalwart) but whatever works for them. The problem here is that we have way too many bigs even after we jettisoned Shelden out of here, and I assume the minutes will be occupied by Hawes+Thompson+Moore+Diogu, with some spot minutes for Nocioni and Greene here and there, and assuming that Gooden is injured. He's certainly a better candidate than Cedric Simmons to get minutes, but I wonder if he will even get any.

 

[J-WILL55]

The O'Bryant deal may not be going down, as the Globe has changed its post to indicate its not final.
Now as for the Knicks talk, the Kings have been pursuing Nate Robinson and I should know in the next few minutes whether they can land him. While ESPN has reported they were turned down in a deal including Kenny Thomas going to New York for Robinson and Jared Jeffries, I just spoke with someone close to Robinson who said he had received a phone call from Mike D'Antoni, which could be the Knicks coach calling to tell him he'd been traded or perhaps not. We'll see.http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/019783.html

sam just bloged this

We got rid of Bobby Brown......Gimme Nate!!!!!

 

[KingGiant49erFan]

hes 22, a center (the position that takes longest to develop along with pg), a former lottery pick and full sized. im somewhat excited.

 

[wonjaeyou]

WTF?!! Nothing's going right for kings

 

[nbrans]

Done deal indeed. He's going to Toronto: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2009/02/obryant_traded.html

 

[kingsnation]

Done deal indeed. He's going to Toronto: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/extras/celtics_blog/2009/02/obryant_traded.html

I'm glad. I didn't want him.

 

[kingsnation]

Chris Sheridan: Minor deal alert -- The Boston Celtics have agreed to trade Patrick O'Bryant to Toronto for backup point guard Will Solomon. There were reports that O'Bryant was headed to Sacramento, but this deal fills Boston's need for another option at point guard behind Rajon Rondo, Eddie House and Gabe Pruitt, and it gives the Raptors another big body to bring off the bench.

Anyone who watched Andrea Bargnani and Jake Voskuhl try to stop Zydrunas Ilgauskas last night can see why the Raptors would be looking for some more size.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=TradeTalkRoundup-090218

 

[LilMissDiva]

My head hurts... cant... keep... up...

 

[Löwenherz]

I'm shocked the Raptors were able to best our offer of "no one" for O'Bryant

 

[Sptsjunkie]

I'm shocked the Raptors were able to best our offer of "no one" for O'Bryant

This is starting to become a Seinfeld-esque thread. How did they beat our offer about nothing? Who would of thought they could beat it with something.

 

[Bricklayer]

I'm shocked the Raptors were able to best our offer of "no one" for O'Bryant

Too bad we did not keep Douby around for this.

Come to think of it, wasn't Cassel supposed to be headed back to the Cs? And weren;t we supposed to be doing them a favor? Thanks a lot Danny.

 

[Löwenherz]

Too bad we did not keep Douby around for this.

Come to think of it, wasn't Cassel supposed to be headed back to the Cs? And weren;t we supposed to be doing them a favor? Thanks a lot Danny.

I was under the impression the "return favor" was taking Nocioni's contract and giving us a treasure trove of expirings for 2010.

 

[Sptsjunkie]

Too bad we did not keep Douby around for this.

Come to think of it, wasn't Cassel supposed to be headed back to the Cs? And weren;t we supposed to be doing them a favor? Thanks a lot Danny.

Solomon >>>> Douby

Solomon is actually a true PG, did a pretty solid job filling in for Calderon when he was out.