Kevin McHale made a trade. How do they love it in Minnesota?

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• sick wit it Posted: Jun.30 at 8:40 am
  first!

• TADOne Posted: Jun.30 at 8:40 am
  Wow. I didn’t even know McHale was THAT bad.

• Hursty Posted: Jun.30 at 8:47 am
  I was about to say, the links are coming real early today, good stuff Sam!

• LAN Posted: Jun.30 at 9:42 am
  they should try n trade love for brook lopez

• WhaHuh Posted: Jun.30 at 9:54 am
  Ive read some blogs that do like it, they got rid of bad contracts and got a good scorer (Miller). How this is viewed long term will depend on how well a Jefferson-Love frontcourt works. I’m expecting bad defense, possibly good offense.

• Captain America Posted: Jun.30 at 10:03 am
  Real objective? How about landing “Da Kid” later known as The Big Ticket? Oh, he musta forgot. For the record, it was owner Glen Taylor who discussed the trade with his counterpart in Memphis and stipulated that Mike Miller would need to be added.

• Captain America Posted: Jun.30 at 10:07 am
  Just goes to prove that any swinging diick with a blog can get attention.

• B. Long Posted: Jun.30 at 10:15 am
  Whatever happened to Ebi? I saw him play in high school and he seemed like he had a ton of potenial?

• James Ambrose Posted: Jun.30 at 10:18 am
  Mr. America- I think landing Da Kid is addressed directly in the excerpt: “In his inexplicably long tenure in the Wolves’ front office the former Celtic star has only made two great moves: drafting Kevin Garnett and trading Kevin Garnett.”

• ciolkstar Posted: Jun.30 at 10:31 am
  Po-Tential is just that…Roy for Foye was a reeaallly bad move, as well as McCants over Granger (but a lot of peeps passed him up) The OJ/Love+M Miller trade will help the Wolves on O but they might be prohibitively bad on D. We’ll see…

• Slobodan Chutzpah Posted: Jun.30 at 10:35 am
  I know Nesterovic hasn’t exactly set the NBA on fire, but calling him a complete bust seems overly harsh considering that he’s been a starting/backup center of the “capable stiff” variety his whole career, and earned himself a ring with the Spurs playing that role.

• TADOne Posted: Jun.30 at 10:35 am
  The Big Al/Love/Miller frontcourt should definitely look at playing zone. Talk about slow defensive rotations.

• Allenp Posted: Jun.30 at 10:37 am
  Captain America regularly defends the Timberwolves organization. That job sucks.

• ciolkstar Posted: Jun.30 at 10:46 am
  Captain America is wrong. the KG trade is McHale’s sole success as a GM. Over 12 years (many of those with a lottery pick)he got ONE pick right. It would actually be tougher to be wrong every single time than to luck out once. The T wolves need Gerald Green. Actually, I’d love if the Spurs signed him ( could prob get him on the cheap too). Never gonna happen though ;(

• Mo Charlo Posted: Jun.30 at 10:49 am
  Who wouldn’t have drafted William Avery?

• Captain America Posted: Jun.30 at 10:59 am
  That’s because Captain America is ALWAYS right. It’s amazing listening to hindsight forecasters. Of course, only you would know that Roy for Foye was a loser on the day of the trade, right? OR, McCants over Granger, you knew that at the time of the draft, right? idiots..

• Captain America Posted: Jun.30 at 11:09 am
  Allemp, the Captain does NOT always defend the Timberwolves but is important to set the record straight. For example, the Wolves organization screwed themselves with the Joe Smith deal and the subsequent stiff penalty. Giving up 5 first round draft choices for a start up franchise was like a death penalty. But every GM in the League has a list of bad trades and drafts that at the time didn’t seem so bad.

• DP Posted: Jun.30 at 11:38 am
  Damn Big Al, I hate to see you struggle like this. I guess it’s time to prove that you really are a franchise player. Love, prepared to be dominated. You will average 13 and 7 for your career though. Be happy. Being a steady role player is freakin great you fake ass Troy Murphy. Well maybe a bit more scoring talent than Murphy but it doesn’t matter.

• DP Posted: Jun.30 at 11:40 am
  I thought Captain America died. That’s what I read on CNN.com like two months ago.

• Myles Brown Posted: Jun.30 at 11:43 am
  By the request of The Sports Gal, Im withholding judgment until March.

• what Posted: Jun.30 at 11:50 am
  The only way the Timberwolves trade is good is because the trade was even worse for Memphis.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 12:53 pm
  I hate to say this, but LAN is sorta right on this. A Lopez/Love swap would be pretty smart. The T-Wolves get a finesse seven-footer who will allow Jefferson to slide down to power forward, and the Nets get an offensive-minded PF who will thrive with Sean Williams protecting the basket

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 12:53 pm
  I mean, I know the Lopez-for-Love trade seems realllly lopsided, but you have to think what is good for your TEAM. The Wolves might end up being another New York Knicks.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 12:54 pm
  Hell, the Nets should throw in Vince Carter too, Love would thrive in a LBJ led offense.

• TADOne Posted: Jun.30 at 1:04 pm
  If McHale was turn Mayo into Lopez, i’m quite sure he would officially get run out of Minny with the quickness.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 1:15 pm
  so you disagree with me, TAD?

• TADOne Posted: Jun.30 at 1:21 pm
  I’m not sure. I understand your logic, but they should have kept Mayo in the first place.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 1:33 pm
  I know, it seems like a downgrade to a downgrade… but at least it would make SENSE, unlike stopping now.

• Bo Diddly Posted: Jun.30 at 2:50 pm
  It’s easy to say trading Brandon Roy & not selecting Danny Granger were bad moves, NOW.

• Jukai Posted: Jun.30 at 3:13 pm
  Yeah, it is. Your point?

• iLL wiLL Posted: Jun.30 at 3:54 pm
  Why should McFail STOP making these types of moves? He’s been doin ‘em for years.

• Hate Team Posted: Jun.30 at 6:26 pm
  I wouldn’t say that Roy for Foye was a bad trade yet. When Foye has played he has put up the same numbers as Roy. Now hopefully he will stay healthy.

• Jess Posted: Jun.30 at 8:05 pm
  I agree that you cant say that Rasho Nesterovic was a complete bust. Oh and Canada Day is tomorrow….

• LAN Posted: Jul.1 at 12:01 am
  Finally someone agrees with me! Thankyou Jukai

• metropolis Posted: Jul.1 at 8:59 am
  does anyone know why they released gerald green?

• Andrew Thell Posted: Jul.2 at 10:28 pm
  Captain America- One of the beautiful things about running a blog is that everything is out there. You form an opinion or prognostication, and right or wrong, it’s there for the whole world to see. You’re right, it’s east to be a hindsight expert. You know what’s easier? Dismissing people by flippantly calling them a hindsight expert. What’s hard is putting your opinions on the line every day and standing by them. That’s what I try to do. And since when is the Joe Smith Fiasco an excuse for Kevin McHale’s poor performance?! KEVIN MCHALE PERPETRATED THE JOE SMITH FIASCO!!

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