Everyone knows Anthony wants out of Denver and is trying to get to the New York Knicks or the New Jersey Nets and everyone knows that both the Knicks and Nets are desperately trying to get the deal done. Also everyone knows the Detroit Pistons want to get rid of Richard Hamilton and their 2 year , $25 million they have committed to him.
That’s where Rose comes in who also represents Hamilton.
Rose somehow talked Nets general manager Billy King into asking about Hamilton. The result was that New Jersey proposed sending Troy Murphy and his expiring deal and Johan Petro for Detroit’s 2011 first round draft pick and Hamilton. Dumars shot that one down, not wanting to part with the draft pick.
Kudos to Dumars. When I first read that, I thought why would he want Petro? Murphy maybe but I wouldn’t give up the pick either. Dumars’ draft record isn’t pretty, but he does know the art of the trade. Witness the Rasheed Wallace deal back in 2004 to get the Pistons over the hump. Or how he turned Mateen Cleaves and Rodney White into Jon Barry and a first round pick respectively.
Dumars will trade Hamilton.
Just because the Pistons are in a bad spot doesn’t mean that Dumars will trade for the sake of trading. He’ll wait for the right deal to come along and not give Hamilton away for a bobsled and a bag of basketballs.
Personally, I can’t wait to see if the Pistons will be part of this deal or not. The rebuilding of the Pistons is overdue.
