Gives the Pistons ridicules cap room and perhaps a viable option at the point with the chance to see if Knight fits better at SG, not off the bench.

If I am not mistaken, the Pistons lose their pick if they make the playoffs to the Bobcats. So, miss the playoffs and trade Stuckey, then this season might be a re-builders A++

No, wait. That’s you.

“By real, he means by NBA standards”

No, all that means is that you have no journalistic standards. You write whatever pops into your head and hit publish without any regard to consistency.

Now he’s living out his 7 year man crush by bringing in the guy he almost drafted, at the expense of the future. Ironically, it may hurt the present as well. Gay obviously upgrades the 3, but at what cost? Davis leaving means more Bargnani if we can’t trade him, and the offense is now full of guys with a “shoot first, pass as a last resort” mentality. The biggest transition between the 4-19 start and the solid turnaround was unselfish ball movement. Good luck seeing that again.

Meanwhile, we lose a promising young PF, we still have no draft pick in the next draft, and in 2014(the deepest draft in quite a while), we’ll probably make the playoffs as an 8 seed and get swept when instead we should be doing an actual rebuild and trying as hard as possible to acquire lottery picks for 2014. This team has(or at least had) a solid core, but it needs a true star to really go places. Rudy Gay is not that star.

Wait a second PBT! I thought even the 12th man in the league is worthy!?

Kurt Helin quote: “…anybody that thinks the 12th guy on an NBA bench wouldn’t own a major college game, let alone some pickup contest at the Y, is a fool.”

As the article mentions, Knight is a decent 6th man. That is all. And what does his having played at UK have anything to do with his place in the NBA?

Calderon has averaged twice that many assists throughout his career while roughly averaging the same minutes as Knight.

Knight is an undersized two playing the PG.

And Detroit simply got what they wanted – dumping salary.

The Raptors – I like Rudy Gay but this makes little sense to me. Gay and Derozan are essentially the same player. And now they have a logjam at the 2 and 3 positions. And Landry Fields – wow what a terrible signing. $8 million/year to be completely superfluous. He’s going to have to play the 4 to get some minutes, but with Amir Johnson and Bargnani, those minutes will be limited too.

The only way this makes sense is if Colangelo turns around and trades Bargnani and Andersen for a quality big man. I love the way Andersen is playing, but he’s 31 years old, and this year could be a complete abberation. He’s a guy who can score 15ppg off the bench, play good defense, play multiple positions, and hit 3s. He’s also really cheap, so his value to a contender must be high. I’d trade him now while his value is high.

At least the Raptors got something out of Calderon – if this was the best they could do, they didn’t really have much of a choice…although it would have been nice if they packaged Calderon and Fields to Memphis instead of Calderon, Davis, and a 2nd round pick.

Hmm…. so what is Knight, I thought he’s a real point guard too. Wasn’t he a point guard at UK?