In case you haven’t been bombarded with e-mails, tweets and ESPN alerts, it’s trade season in the NBA.
Players are switching teams faster than Kim Kardashian switches athletes, and it won’t stop until just before the deadline on Thursday.
So Carmelo Anthony is gone, which was expected months ago. But the surprise was Deron Williams, the unhappy guard from Utah.
Williams also travels to the east coast, but he joins the New Jersey Nets, the team that missed out on the aforementioned Melo.
What’s so surprising about the trade has to do with Utah’s long time coach, Jerry Sloan, who quit the team earlier this month. It was rumored that he had trouble working with Williams and that the guard had won the battle. Does this mean Utah realized its mistake?
I sure hope so.
Sloan was the soul of the Utah Jazz, and he kept them competitive for an amazing number of years.
Jazz legend Karl Malone sure wasn’t happy about the decision, stating that Sloan would never quit anything. Actually, grammar be damned, he said, “The guy I know and love, he don’t quit or nothing.”
And I believe Karl Malone.
A playoff without the Utah Jazz just sounds out of place, much like Deron William’s frustrations.
Reach the reporter at nathan.meacham@asu.edu
