Sonics acquire Phoenix Sun's Thomas
Seattle Times staff
Friday, July 20, 2007 - Page updated at 10:28 AM
The Sonics today acquired forward Kurt Thomas from the Phoenix Sun.
The NBA team used its trade exception acquired in the deal with Orlando for Rashard Lewis.
In today's deal with Phoenix, Seattle also picked up two future first-round draft picks.
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According to the trade notes at NBAdraft.net the Suns have these to first round picks:
"Phoenix receives a 2007 Cleveland first-round pick. (Rajon Rondo trade 062806) (top 10 protected through 2010 and unprotected after) via Boston receives a 2007 Cleveland first-round pick. (Jiri Welsh trade 022405)"
This is the pick the Suns used to select Rudy Fernandez at #24 overall.
"Phoenix receives Atlanta's 2007 first round pick (Joe Johnson trade 081905) Protected through 3 in 2007 and no protection in 2008."
If you remember, the Hawks kept the 2007 pick because it was top 3 protected (maybe you didn't catch that while celebrating the Sonics #2 lottery prize). From now on it is unprotected, so, next year it looks like the Sonics might have the Hawks #1 pick.
And, it looks like the Sonics will get one of the Sun's first round picks.
Good job Sam Presti, that Hawks pick could be really big for the Sonics.
[edited and added below at 1:13pm]
Well, too bad we didn't get the Hawks pick. That really would have made the trade meaningful to me. As it is, we get something much, much lower, and a broken Kurt Thomas. Weeeeee!
2 comments:
Hey Idiot,
Why don't you read up before you list something. Per the AZCentral website: "Phoenix will send Seattle its own 2008 and 2010 first-round picks. The Suns will receive a conditional 2009 second-round pick from Seattle (via Orlando). " Notice the words ITS OWN. From what I learned in school, that means that Phoenix will send us their picks not the picks that they got from other teams. Learn to do research.
Hey, thanks for freaking out.
I read and quoted the SeattleTimes.
How about you notice that I used the word "might".
I hoped that it "might" be a meaningfull trade.
The AZ report kind of spells out how meaningless it really is. gosh, let's collect a bunch of late first round picks, wonderful.
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