Boooooooooo!
The Nuggets traded Earl Boykins and Julius Hodge to the Bucks for former Maryland point guard Steve Blake in a move to avoid making luxury tax payments.
This sucks. Hodge is an up-and-comer and a...okay, I’m kidding about that. Obviously, the big loss is Boykins, who is only everyone in Denver’s favorite player. He’s five-foot-five with the guts of a much larger man. Boykins seemed a little threatened by the Allen Iverson trade, almost refusing to pass to his little-man counterpart in the Answer’s first game in Denver. But that’s really his only mistake I remember. He’s clutch, he’s aggressive, he’s instant offense off the bench, and the Nuggets are going to miss him more than they realize.
Goodbye, backcourt depth. Hello, first-round playoff loss? I hope not, but suddenly the Nuggets don’t have anyone scary coming off the bench. And doesn’t that hurt an up-tempo team the most?
Being a sports fan sucks sometimes, but being a Nuggets fan hasn’t sucked this bad in years.
3 comments:
This royally blows-was the trade soley to avoid the luxury tax and was there any other way?
That's what the article seemed to say. I mean, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever from a basketball standpoint.
I mean, we could have gotten around it by trading someone else, someone named Nene, but that must not have been an option. I don't know, I don't get it at all.
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