Bye bye Marcus

Word of the Summer: "Flexibility"

This baffles me. Seriously, are the Denver Nuggets triple-headed front office team screwing with us? Really? Marcus Camby to the Clippers...for the "right" to swap 2nd round picks in 2010. That's it. Nothing else. Not even the left over extra jersey's that were made for former Clipper Sam "Alien Head Cassell.

The only Nugget with any trade value left, just given away for nothing. Not even a player in return. This coming just a few days after the Nuggets let their "off the bench hussle player" Eduardo Najera go to the east coast. Addition by subtraction? Only financially. On the court, which the last time I checked, you still have to field a team. Usually a competitive team, but in the Nuggets case, I don't think it's possible to do this.

Let's recap their off season after getting swept out of the first round of the playoffs...

June 25, 2008: The Nuggets trade their 1st rounder to the Bobcats for a future protected 1st round pick. What the hell does that mean?
The breakdown:
-If the Bobcats make the playoffs next year then: Nuggets receive their 2009 1st round pick
-If not then the pick is protected like this:
2010: If top 12...Bobcats keep
2011: If top 10...Bobcats keep
2012: If top 8...Bobcats keep
2013: If top 3...Bobcats keep
2014: No Protection

Bottom line: we're not gonna see this pick.

Triple-headed Front Office Exec. #1 (Warkentien): This move gives us "Flexibility" in the future for trading. Good business have "Flexibility".

June 26, 2008: Draft Day
Nuggets trade their 2009 2nd round pick to Chicago for the rights to 2nd round pick (39) Sonny Weems.
Weems is describe as "a raw athletic dunker". Wow. Just what we need.
PG Mario Chalmers from Kansas falls into the 2nd round (pick 34). The Nuggets were interested at selecting him at #20 in the first. Too bad we traded that pick a day before. At least wait until draft day to trade that pick. You never know who will fall.
OSU big man Kosta Koufos slipped down to #23.

July 9,2008
Biggest free agent signing so far...they re-signed old journeyman PG Anthony "Willie" Carter for the league minimum $1.2 million for one year. Yeah.

July 11, 2008
Eddie leaves for the NJ/Brooklyn Nets. Eddie came out publicly and said he would rather stay in Denver at a home town discount. He apparently received no offer and signed with the Nets for 4 yrs/$12 million. He made $4.9 million last year.
His Deal:
Year 1: $3.4 mil
Year 2: $3.1 mil
Year 3: $2.8 mil
Year 4: $2.6 mil
And he would have given a "hometown" discount.

July 15, 2008
Camby to the Clippers for a 2010 2nd round swap option. They gain a $10 million trade exemption for 1year.

Triple Headed Exec. #2 (Rex Chapman): The move gives us "Flexibility".

Are you kidding? We couldn't have packaged Camby and our #20 overall pick to move up in the draft. Roy Hibbert C went #17. After all this that deal would look like a steal. Three spots up and a player is better than nothing.

They better use this "Flexibility" and $10 million trade exemption to get some damn players. So far...loss of 2 important players/minutes/defense and the addition of a "raw athletic dunker" and money.

I wonder if the fans get "Flexibility" when we get to choose our 10 game packages. You know...lets us mix and match.