Not Big news... Detroit trade with Clips

obligatory *splash*

 

I thought Acker would have made us a championship contender!

 

And we are off, I expect the next few days to be possibly the busiest trading season ever...gonna be fun.

DD

 

Salary move, it got the Pistons under the tax.

 

It got them nearer there,need to shed a bit more to get under the tax.

 

for what its worth, here is what mark stein says...

The (very) minor trade Detroit has agreed to with the Los Angeles Clippers -- sending Alex Acker to L.A. for nothing more than a future swap of second-round picks -- appealed to the Pistons for obvious reasons. They were $731,868 over the NBA's $71.15 million luxury-tax threshold as of Sunday morning. Shedding Acker's 2008-09 salary of $711,517 almost gets them under the tax line.

However ...

The conspiracy theorists among Joe Dumars' front-office peers around the league will inevitably surmise that the Pistons might need the extra roster spot because they're closing in on some sort of Stoudemire deal. The combination of Rasheed Wallace's expiring contract and young forward Amir Johnson would appear to be Detroit's best offer -- and thus not quite in Chicago's class -- but there are a couple well-connected league insiders who believe that Dumars still has hope of winning the Amare Sweepstakes.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&page=TradeTalk-090216

 

Oh yeah, next season's will be much slower.

 

Yes, but we are talking about EXISTING trading seasons, not future ones.....let's see how this one plays out, and maybe next years will top it.

DD

 

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090215/SPORTS0102/902150336/1127

 

I stand corrected. Stein's report seems incorrect.