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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Kings trade Jason WIlliams | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 2:28 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Williams' rocky relationship with Kings comes to an end -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Sacramento Kings concluded three turbulent years with Jason Williams, trading the flashy point guard to the Vancouver Grizzlies for Mike Bibby in a four-man deal. Nick Anderson was traded along with Williams to the Grizzlies, who are expected to relocate to Memphis this summer. Brent Price, who played just six games for Vancouver last season, was sent to Sacramento. Williams' dazzling playmaking abilities were clouded by his erratic behavior on and off the court in Sacramento, where he became a fan favorite, but frequently embarrassed the organization with displays of temper and poor judgment. Williams and Anderson "contributed to a lot of our success here the last couple of years, but we think we made a good move for our team in the future," Kings vice president of basketball operations Geoff Petrie said. Unhappy as his playing time and importance to the Kings decreased last season, Williams openly questioned his role with the team and suggested he wanted to be traded. Petrie obliged him with a late draft-day deal. "The deal evolved during the course of the day, as things like this will during draft day," Petrie said. "They are very excited about getting Jason, and we're real happy to be getting Mike." While the Kings' high-flying offense lost its enigmatic leader, the Grizzlies' second major trade of draft day completely changes Vancouver's nucleus just days before the franchise's move to Tennessee is expected to be approved. Earlier in the day, Vancouver traded Shareef Abdur-Rahim -- the franchise's career scoring leader -- to Atlanta for Lorenzen Wright, Brevin Knight and the draft rights to 7-footer Pau Gasol. Petrie, the NBA's executive of the year in two of the past three seasons, moved a potential problem in Williams for one of the game's most highly regarded young point guards. Petrie outmaneuvered several teams in the hunt for Bibby, who averaged 15.9 points and 8.4 assists in playing all 82 games last season. In Williams, the Grizzlies acquired one of the NBA's most visible players who will be sure to sell many tickets in their new city. With behind-the-back passes and long 3-pointers, Williams became a fixture on national television highlight shows. As a rookie in the strike-shortened 1999 season, Williams brought immediate excitement with his razzle-dazzle style. He averaged 12.8 points and six assists as a rookie, and he teamed with Chris Webber to lead the Kings to the first of three consecutive playoff appearances. But Williams' effectiveness and playing time gradually decreased the next two seasons while Sacramento became one of the NBA's elite teams, finishing last season with the league's fourth-best record. Because of Williams' defensive limitations, he watched reserve Bobby Jackson play the fourth quarter of most games. Williams, the seventh choice in the 1998 draft, averaged 9.4 points and 5.4 assists this season, shooting a career-best 40 percent from the field, but making only 31 percent of his 3-point attempts. Williams spent a controversial final season with the Kings. He was suspended for the first five games after failing to comply with the league's drug policy. Twice during the year he was fined for verbal exchanges with fans, and he embarrassed the Kings during a game in Oakland in which he made slurs derogatory to Asians and gays while bickering with fans behind the bench. Anderson was a starter for the Kings in 1999-00, but he vanished from coach Rick Adelman's rotation last season. He averaged 1.8 points in 21 games -- but by trading him to Vancouver, the Kings avoid any buyout of his contract, which runs for two more years at more than $10 million. Bibby is unknown to many casual NBA fans because he played in Canada for the lowly Grizzlies. That's not the case in Sacramento, where the Kings have coveted Bibby for several months. "When you get a chance to get a player you really like, you get him," Adelman said. | ||||
| mikeWOW | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 3:00 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | wow grizzles rebuilding???? 1st shareef now bibby. bibby is very talented- and personally i think j-dub is very overrated! "i hate people that dont get it!" | ||||
| Ferret | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 4:26 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | They get a flashy white guy to lead the team when they move to Memphis... Hmm... wonder why...coicidence??? Philadelphia, the only place where brotherly love is legal. | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 06-28-2001 @ 6:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | LMMFAO ferret i think they screwed up by getting rid of both Bibby & Abdur-Rahim. both are very talented & with there draft pick this year they could have had a decent core to try & build around. but what do they know ??? they are in Canada... whats next they get a whole white team & coach so they can move to memphis with out haveing to worry bout Lynchings??? dunno just a hunch  SIG PIC CREATED BY AUSTIN 3:16 E-Mail Me METS will go ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!! Yankees & the Braves SUCK !!!!!!!! Resident Strip Club Pimp This message was edited by BaLLooN NoT on 6-28-01 @ 7:24 PM | ||||
| Austin 3:16 The Dark Enforcer/Angry Stoned Pimp G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. New World Order Secret Police Chief Proud Inventor of the "Cream Cheese, Peanut Butter and Jelly" sandwich | posted on 07-01-2001 @ 1:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: Is that George W. Bush's long long son?  Graduate of Sephiroth's school of newbies. If u want to u can Write me mail | ||||
| Unicron | posted on 07-01-2001 @ 1:34 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Mar. 01 | no no no, J-dub is J-lo's cousin. They had sex at a family function, and were discovered by puffy (when he still was with the above mentioned J-lo). the family decreed that J-dub and J-lo couldn't be withing 7 miles of eachother. | ||||
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