According to reports, Wallace has become increasingly difficult to make trade with due to backlash he received from the Gasol trade.
Poor baby! He should be happy to still have a job after being on the losing end of one of the most one-sided trades in the history of all sports.
Just to remind everyone, Wallace traded Pau Gasol for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittendon, Aaron McKie, the rights to Marc Gasol and 1st round picks in 2008 and 2010.
Mike
Marc Gasol will be a top 5 center in this league. I really feel like this trade wasn’t any more one-sided as the KG-Big Al deal.
Then factor in that the expiring contracts allowed Memphis the space to take on Zach Randolph's contract and that Gerveis Vasquez might become something and the trade doesn't look nearly as lopsided as most make it out to be.
Do you just say adding Zach Randolph was a positive for Memphis? I know he's been behaving a bit better, but three years after the deal Memphis has yet to win more games than it loses in a season and they just signed TA to theoretically be their starting 2.
Mike
In Pau Gasol's last full season in Memphis the Grizzlies were 22-60. When Gasol got traded to LA the Grizzlies were 12-30 and well on their way towards another 22-60 year in 2007-08.
Last year they were 40-42, 18 games better than Pau Gasol's last full season and 18 games better than the year Gasol played half a season for them only 2 seasons beforehand.
That's a pretty decent improvement so yes, I think the addition of Marc Gasol and Randolph were two of the main reasons for the team's marked improvement and so would call the trade successful from the Grizzlies point of view. Could it have been better by trading with, say, Chicago who at the time were I believe willing to give up Noah, Deng and picks for Gasol? Maybe. But overall, I think they did quite well.
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