NBA / Oct 10, 2008 / 3:44 pm
Pacers Trade Shawne Williams To Mavericks
The Indy Star is reporting that in the Pacers have traded Shawne Williams to the Mavericks for two second-round picks and Eddie Jones.
This is clearly the next move in what appears to be Larry Legend’s quest to remove all knuckleheads from his roster.
And on a side note, it really wasn’t that long ago that Eddie Jones was starring in commercials and getting buckets in the League. Now, here we are today - he’s a throw-in piece for a minor trade.
Source: Indy Star
October 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
shake&bake says:
I liked Shawne Williams coming out of Memphis because of his verstility but now I’ve got to wonder if he’ll ever be a really significant player.
In other Mavericks news, in last nights game against the Bulls, Gerald Green looked decent. At times he looked like he could score at will. I guess that’s typical Gerald Green.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
miamiVIS3 says:
The big question is will the 2k9 rosters reflect this?
October 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
control says:
According to the standards set by some…Eddie Jones is a top 15 player in the league. He DID get ALL NBA THIRD TEAM WOOOOOO!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Scott says:
I remember back in the day watching NBA Action and them having a piece on Eddie Jones and Kobe… man did their careers go in opposite directions from there. Kobe got his rings and all, while Eddie made MADD money for enough years (probably too many, but at least he didn’t fall out of the rotation cuz he was an idiot like Antoine Walker). He was a pro’s pro though, gotta respect that.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Jim says:
Eddie also carried those Lakers teams into surprising non-terribleness with nothing but Van Axel to help. Pro’s pro is right, he was an asset to the NBA.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
The Brown Sound says:
Elden Campbell was helping out also.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
chronically_ill says:
Damn, I feel old! First J-Will retires, and now Eddie is being traded for scrubs like Shawne Williams?
And damn the 90s Lakers were fun to watch. Van Exel and Eddie holding down the backcourt, Cedric Ceballos getting mad buckets. Shaq was still in his beastly stage (sorry, Dwight. Shaq was the Original Superman!) and young Kobe was going head to head against his Airness at the All-Star Game…those 90s squads definitely had the talent to win it all, but freakin Stockton, Malone and Hornaceck kept getting in the way!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Spliff 2 My Lou says:
I’m not too sure who got the best of this trade but with Gerald Green and Shawne Williams the Mavericks have all of a sudden become a younger, more athletic team.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
johnny says:
I had no idea that Shawne Williams had value.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Mark says:
Let’s hope JHo doesn’t influence him.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
AY says:
eddie jones was the lakers highest pick in the past 25 years, tied 10th with andrew bynum. he was my favorite player; he was never that good, but you can tell he was trying hard. I don’t know whether if they still have it on youtube, but he did dunk from the free-throw line during the game when he was 6-7 175lbs. The saddest day for me was when the lakers traded him and elden campbell for glen rice; because shaq hated lazy elden and they couldn’t match elden’s salary with anyone, they had to throw eddie in there to get something back. The same year they won a championship, mainly due to phil jackson. He never did get to win a championship; finally reunited with shaq in miami the year after they won it all, and we know how that went.
And one more point; nick van exel was never that good. I know, everyone remembers nick the quick; nick hardly got a steal per game. First it was sedale threatt and doug christie and james worthy carrying him, then it was eddie making up for his mistakes. A 38 year old magic came out of retirement because he couldn’t stand how bad nick was. If we’re going to remember the lakers in the 90s, please just remember Vlade Divac, the one true constant.
And they had players. sedale (who was shooting ~50% as a pg. i can say enough about him, he carried the lakers with vlade. not worthy, not ceballos, and certainly not nicky v), doug christie, anthony peeler, vlade, worthy, ceballos (to replace worthy), george lynch, eddie, van exel, lazy elden and my dad’s all time favorite, pig miller.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:54 am
chronically_ill says:
AY, I felt the same way when Eddie got traded. Almost made me not like the Lakers anymore. But it probably had to be done because Kobe was coming up and couldnt be confined to the bench anymore. Besides, Glen Rice was probably better to pair along with Kobe because Rice was a better pure shooter than Eddie. Rice outside shot gave Kobe more room to operate. While Eddie was probably a better overall player than Rice, it wouldnt have made much sense to keep two slashers in the same lineup.
And Van Exel embodied everything wrong with the modern point guard. He was selfish, jacked up tons of contested 3s and often tried some boneheaded plays. But I’ve always had a soft spot for him!
Dude was mad CLUTCH (especially later on in his career with Dallas). I loved how he could miss the first 16 shots he took, but make the one that won the game! And he had such a unique style. Who else played with his “herky-jerky” (to quote Stu Lantz) style of play? His handle looked real lazy, real sloppy, but still flashy and effective in an odd kind of way. And how did you not like the raise the roof move he did whenever he hit a backbreaking bomb? Dude was a real original.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Willis says:
I tied my shoes today
October 11th, 2008 at 5:23 am
dagwaller says:
Ha, the funny thing is that I was going to post that Shawne Williams was a decent player, but now I see that some people need some schooling on Eddie Jones.
Granted, a few people have pointed out that he was actually pretty good. He made an All-NBA team once, not a mean feat, considering a lot of NBA stars never make that team. He also made the All-Defensive team twice, again, not something that many NBA players do. Finally, he ranks among the leaders in history for 3 pointers made. For some reason, he’s disrespected in memory by people ignorant of the NBA, but Jim, chronically ill, and AY obviously recognize.
It’s a shame that more people don’t respect him. Probably just ignorance of the League in general.