With the NBA draft 24 hours away the trades and rumors are aplenty. Yesterday we saw two major moves that will have serious impact on the upcoming NBA season.
The San Antonio Spurs, obviously frustrated with their quick exit of the playoffs to the hands of their rival Dallas Mavericks made a big trade to make sure that does not happen again.
The Spurs acquired Richard Jefferson from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Fabricio Oberto. It was later determined that the Detroit Pistons were also involved as Oberto will go to Detroit and Amir Johnson will go to the Bucks.
This trade gives the Spurs a scoring wing player they have lacked for sometime now. To go along with Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, the Spurs with this trade have once again become, at least on paper, a dominant team in the Western Conference.
The Washington Wizards unloaded their 5th overall pick in tomorrows draft as intended, along with Oleksiy Pecherov, Etan Thomas and Drius Songaila to the Minnesota Timberwolves. The wolves give up Randy Foye and Mike Miller, and now have the 5th and 6th picks in the draft.
Now the big question on everyones mind is what will the Wolves do with the back-to-back lottery picks. Many believe Stephen Curry is all but drafted already, but the second pick is still in the air. Big man Jordan Hill is being thrown around as is Tyreke Evans even Ricky Rubio if he falls.
This draft is the first in a very long time that every pick after the first is unknown by a large margin. We should expect fireworks of July 4th proportions.
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