Cleveland got , although currently injured, excellent point guard, Isaiah Thomas from Boston as the centerpiece of the trade, along with a very good forward in Jae Crowder, a "very well regarded" center, Ante Zizic, who was Boston's 2016 first round draft choice, plus Brooklyn's 2018 first pick. Bleacherreport ranked Thomas the sixth best point guard in the NBA at the end of last season and Irving the 12th best. Crowder was rated the 53rd best player at any position in the league by Sports Illustrated. Plus Zizic plus a first round pick next year.
It now becomes my disagreeable duty to eat crow. Koby Altman and Dan Gilbert got everything they wanted here: a better replacement for Irving, immediate help in depth with Crowder, and two building blocks for the future. Amazing work by Alt-bert from whom I expected a frisson of schadenfreude and who along with the city of Cleveland I wished and always will wish an existence solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. And all I got to show for it is this fillet of crow. Sincere, but begrudged, hosannas to Cleveland management for pulling off this miracle.
It now becomes my disagreeable duty to eat crow. Koby Altman and Dan Gilbert got everything they wanted here: a better replacement for Irving, immediate help in depth with Crowder, and two building blocks for the future. Amazing work by Alt-bert from whom I expected a frisson of schadenfreude and who along with the city of Cleveland I wished and always will wish an existence solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. And all I got to show for it is this fillet of crow. Sincere, but begrudged, hosannas to Cleveland management for pulling off this miracle.
