Comments on: NBA Draft: Kevin Love and O.J. Mayo 8-Player Trade

By: Dunkadelic TV

Dunkadelic TV — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:31:43 +0000

The Memphis Grizzlies are looking to make O J Mayo and Rudy Gay the new-era version of Michael and Scottie. O J Mayo can be a big-time scoring combo-guard. Look for Memphis to be a very explosive team with Rudy, O J, and Hakim Warrick the Music City “Dunkadelic-3″.

By: AY

AY — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:00:30 +0000

Gay-Love ended before it started; there’s to hoping that Gay-Mayo will have a chance. Mchale traded Mayo for 3 white guys: Love, Miller and Cardinal. There’s a premium to white nba players these days, and it won’t be easy to get your hands on them after utah and indiana.

It’s interesting that the two major league teams met in the nba finals, and their minor league teams are doing trades to shore up the future. It should be the way all nba franchises are run: get a minor league team in the same league, it’ll do wonders for your chances. In four years, Love will be in Boston and Mayo will be in LA, and david stern will have “tim donaghy memory” parts of our brain removed.

By: eyeused2b

eyeused2b — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:28:45 +0000

@hahns

Mayo (6’4″) and Crittenton (6’5″) are combo guards who’ll likely spend all of their time at SG. Conley (6’1″) and Lowry (6’0″) are the true PGs, and if the rumors ring true, Lowry is probably going to be traded. Jaric (6’7″) is a utility player that plays PG, SG, and SF decently, and will be a nice backup to Gay. With the losses of Navarro and Miller, the Grizz are just two deep at each perimeter position if they decide not to trade any of them.

If Marc Gasol is as good as they claim, he could be an upgrade over Darko at C. At the very least, he’ll get some on-court experience b/c Collins (traded) and Kwame (unrestricted FA) won’t be in his way. Unless, of course, the Grizz shock the world and re-sign Kwame (Wouldn’t be much of a shock, I guess.). Warrick played well at PF when given the opportunity, and Darrell Arthur is supposed to be good. Who knows, even Walker may show up. He’s pissed about how the Wolves buried him on the inactive list, so he may play with a chip on his shoulder.

They will likely still be a terrible team next season, b/c they are so young, but I think their future looks better today than it did before the draft.

By: Brown

Brown — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:48:13 +0000

Memphis signed Darko as a free agent.

By: Michorizo

Michorizo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:41:22 +0000

$38.12? … I have more faith in Kupchak than you…I bet he can talk him down to under $30

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:38:39 +0000

I heard the Grizzlies are gonna trade Mayo to the Lakers for $38.12.

By: BlazeMcHerbs

BlazeMcHerbs — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:36:28 +0000

McHale made a good trade ?!?!?!?!?
He’s been reading NBA trades for dummies i guess, look who he picked on, the same guy that traded for Darko and Kwame years after their “potential” was exposed. Memphis is not too bright…

By: Michorizo

Michorizo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:33:25 +0000

Mayo is a special talent that you need to take risks in getting in order to obtain … Memphis is swinging for the fences with Mayo, but i don’t question there attempt or means to aquire a talent like Mayo, but do you think Mayo is going to stick around after his rookie contract is over …

By: Sam I Am

Sam I Am — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:28:08 +0000

I don’t believe he will make his team better in the long run. I see him as a S.Marbury prototype

too many times cats come in and just fail to understand the fundamentals of the game and focus too much on their individual skill

My opinion..

GO Wolves !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: aj

aj — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:22:25 +0000

It’s a win-win for both irrelevant teams. Both are better off for it now and in the future but neither still has much of a future.
Foye-Mayo would not have worked. Two bigs does work, two littles, not-so-much.
Love needs to be a #2 post-man, not a #1 with Darko and Kwame.