More Golden Moves...

Despite countless offers from Idaho in Oregon I was actually able to make 2 trades before Sunday was finished.

The first move was Thornton for Dudley. The Kok gets scoring and steals and Golden gets FG%, 3PT% and ATO. Win-win.

The 2nd move, the one everyone is surely talking about, is the Brook Lopez for Nikola Pekovic trade. Lopez was injured Sunday afternoon while Deron was dropping 57. My infatuation with Pekovic remained and I looked at the Arctic roster. He has a number of keepers and is unlikely to be able to protect them all. So, I wanted to leverage Brook's abilities to see if I could get Pekovic. Why? Because Pekovic and Gortat as a Center combo is too good to pass up. Eastern Promises. The scariest Center tandem ever assembled in the JBL perhaps?

My trade offer to Arctic included 3 lines of comments surrounding the Lopez injury. I didn't know the extent of Lopez's injury at the time and neither did many news outlets. But I did tell Arctic about the injury in my offer, twice. Whether he was willing to accept the risk was up to him. I also mentioned my passion to pair Pekovic with Gortat and have this Eastern-block frontline.

When Arctic accepted the deal (7:50am this morning) there was still no word on the extent of Lopez's injury. Crikker's comments when he accepted the deal were...

"sure, Peko's all yours... I understand the lure of a foreign center combo... it makes me salivate as well"

So, this is probably a good example to bring up about Marko's point making trades involving injured parties. I informed Arctic of the injury. I didn't hide it. The risk is then transferred to the accepting team to do their due diligence. Unfortunately for Arctic, Lopez will be out 3 weeks or so due to the ankle sprain.

I'm sure many of you noticed how the JBL Gods handle these scenarios though right? Pekovic is in my active lineup and is now missing tonight's game due to injury. Funny how these things always seem to work out.

So, the Showers are now looking at a very foreign lineup for next season potentially. Gortat, Pekovic and Biyombo. Looks like a theme team is being assembled....