Trade

[Rondo to Posey]

Ford just said in his chat that Detroit has a "done deal" in place for Sheed...

[Ossric]

ESPN: TIMBERWOLVES@PISTONS Fri., 8:00 PM ET


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The Detroit Pistons won the Rasheed Wallace sweepstakes Thursday, ending his one-game Atlanta Hawks career, in a trade deadline swap that also involved the Boston Celtics, a Pistons source told ESPN Insider's Chad Ford.


Detroit received Wallace and Mike James from Boston, while giving up Chucky Atkins, Lindsey Hunter, its No. 1 draft pick and an undisclosed amount of cash.


Atlanta received Chris Mills from Boston, Zeljko Rebraca and Bob Sura from Detroit and the Bucks' No. 1 draft pick that was owed to the Pistons.


Boston received Atkins, Hunter and the Pistons' aforementioned package of a No. 1 pick and cash, while surrendering Mills and James.


Bad trade in my opinion. Yes we do get a first round pick & Hunter contract ends at the end of this year and yes James isn't a PG, but unless we can trade Atkins this summer, we're stuck with him for 2 more years at 4.5 mil per year. Atkins is supposed to be a bad defender, so maybe Banks will become a starter now?

To bad we couldn't trade for Shareef earlier...

[DERRENMATTS]

i don't know if you can consider this a bad trade. its a mediocre trade that's for sure, but not necessarily a bad one. we get another first round pick in exchange for taking on a so-so player in chucky atkins. i guess it balances out a bit. chucky atkins brings more experience to the table over mike james and that may be a good thing for marcus banks.

with 3 first round picks, i have a lot of homeworkand scouting to do on potential players we might be taking in the draft. i'm going to have work cut out for me.

[Ossric]

Well we didn't give up much in this deal. I'm just not sure whether it's better to have Atkins for 2 years and a questionmark pick than having Mills off the books this summer. I'm not so sure if Atkins is a tradeable commodity and i just think that we could have signed a vet PG ala Travis Best for less than the 4.3 million that Atkins makes a year.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not going to miss James but the only positive thing about this trade is the extra pick, but that's really a gamble. It's not sure whether we land a good prospect with that. It's not even sure if we can trade up in the draft with the 3 picks since they're low picks. I was hoping that we would add a servicable player with the Mills contract. Alas that was not the case. If you look at the trade, the only way how this could turn out to be a good trade would be if the pick turns out to be very usefull. (unless Atkins surprises me with his play)

[DERRENMATTS]

i hear you. i was hoping to get a more meaningful player in return for mills. atkins is average at best.

letting mills walk at the end of the season would have opened up 6.5million dollars for us. i guess ainge really wanted the extra first round pick, even though its only a late first rounder. he could see a lot of potential gems falling to the lower part of the first round.

[meltinjohn]

I can see where this is going now. Boston never does well picking top 10 wise. Maybe theyll just get another Tony Parker or Zach Randolph who knows right?

[DERRENMATTS]

i was going to say the same thing. ainge may have picked up gems with the latter 2 picks last year (perkins and hunter).

maybe ainge has a knack for finding diamonds in the rough. the lower first round picks may suit him well, then.

[meltinjohn]

Maybe.