Much of the debate across the network last week pertained to Scottie Pippen and his place in history. As one of his stops was in Houston, I figured I should weigh in…
Update
TrueHoop round-table on four-team blockbuster
On Wednesday afternoon, the Houston Rockets, New Orleans Hornets, Indiana Pacers, and New Jersey Nets pulled off a four-team blockbuster, swapping several key contributors.
Rahat Huq of Red94, Ryan Schwan of Hornets247, Tim Donahue of 8 points, 9 seconds, and Sebastian Pruiti of Nets are Scorching got together to provide assessments of the outgoing players from their respective ballclubs.
Rockets Daily – Thursday, August 12, 2010
Daily Factoid: Last year, Trevor Ariza posted a 0.058 WS/48 (estimated number of wins contributed by a player per 48 minutes), while Courtney Lee posted a a 0.063 WS/48. Based on this metric, Courtney Lee will help the Rockets win 0.27 more games this year assuming that he plays the same number of minutes this year as Ariza did last year.
Houston Rockets trade Trevor Ariza in four-team trade, land guard Courtney Lee
The New Orleans Hornets acquired Trevor Ariza(notes) Wednesday in a four-team, five-player trade that also sends point guard Darren Collison(notes) to the Indiana Pacers, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The deal also sends Pacers forward Troy Murphy(notes) to the New Jersey Nets and Nets guard Courtney Lee(notes) to the Houston Rockets. In addition to landing Collison – the young point guard they’ve been searching for all offseason – the Pacers also have to take on forward James Posey(notes), who has two years and $13.5 million remaining on his contract.
The Rockets signed Ariza to a five-year, $35 million contract a year ago, but have since acquired guard Kevin Martin(notes). Trading him should keep them from paying a substantial luxury-tax bill this season.
Be sure to follow me on twitter as I will updating this post throughout the day and into tomorrow with my own thoughts and reactions to this deal from across the blogosphere…
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