Actually the truth is that seattle would have taken eddie or another team would have. Then the rockets had Radmonivich or Jefferson as their 1 2 guys. Then Murphy. Radman is a bust also,and if we had drafted Jefferson probably would have won more games and not won Ming. Murphy is overrated IMO. Eddie has alot more talent than Murphy so you cant blame the brass for the risk taken. What they really screwed up on was not taking Kirelinko or Zach. But then again,changes the record the following year and probably no Ming. If the rockets trade cato or the trade exp. for Sheed then I will consider losing Eddie a blessing in disguise.
The one thing I do know is that what the Rockets were getting for their inquiries about Griffin were teams wanting to dump their awful contracts and bad players on the Rockets but the Rockets had to give up Griffin, another player and a draft pick just to get crap in return. I don't know any specific scenarios, but a bud of mine who I trust said that people around the league were using Griffin as a way to try and get the team to give up a good player and draft picks just to move Griffin. Imagine another team saying, "Sure, we'll give you our crappiest most overpaid player for Griffin, BUT you have to throw in Mobley and a first rounder." It's like saying, "Yeah, we'll give you 5 bucks for your brand new Mercedes but you have to give us the built in DVD player AND free gas for a year." You don't trade someone just to trade him. You need to actually be able to get something in return.
not sure if posted yet. Troubled forward Eddie Griffin said Sunday he has agreed to play for the New Jersey Nets. Griffin, released Friday by the Houston Rockets, quickly found a new home with the team that originally drafted him. ``I've decided to go play for the Nets,'' Griffin said in an interview with Houston television station KRIV. ``I'm excited about going to play for (Nets head coach) Byron Scott and playing with (Nets guard) Jason Kidd. It's just going to be an exciting thing for me and I can't wait.'' ADVERTISEMENT New Jersey president Rod Thorn said Saturday that the Nets were in the running to sign Griffin, who played at nearby Seton Hall. Thorn did not return a telephone call Sunday night. Griffin said he had already received calls from Scott, Kidd and Richard Jefferson welcoming him to the team. The Nets have not had a consistent contributor off the bench this season and Griffin, the seventh pick in the 2001 draft, could fill that role. But New Jersey is taking a chance by signing a player who brings considerable legal baggage. Griffin was charged in November with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a woman accused him of hitting her three times in the face and shooting at her as she drove away from his home before dawn on Oct. 25. He will be arraigned on the charge Jan. 14. A second misdemeanor charge of assault related to the same encounter was dismissed last week. A separate case involving a charge of mar1juana possession is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 20. Griffin hopes to start with a clean slate in New Jersey, although he is uncertain when he will be able to join the Nets because of his legal problems. ``New Jersey was the best fit for me,'' Griffin said. ``I can get the most opportunity there. I felt like that's the team I fit in at.'' Griffin said a number of teams, including Detroit, Toronto, Philadelphia and Orlando, were in the running. He said he will sign for the balance of the season and again become a free agent. ``It feels good,'' Griffin said. ``It's a relief just to know where I'm going. I just got to get everything else behind me and I am ready to get back on the court.'' The 6-foot-10, 232-pound forward averaged 8.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.63 blocks in 150 career games with the Rockets. Drafted by New Jersey, Griffin's rights were traded to the Rockets for three first-round draft picks -- Jefferson, Brandon Armstrong and Jason Collins.
Jeff, Come on man, Court ordered curfew???????????????? That can all be worked out. I get that no teams were offering up much for him, but why release him for nothing? Why not make him sweat it out too? A bad biz decision IMHO.....and it looks like the Nets have screwed us over again... DD
No. We released him meaning his money stays on our cap until the end of the season. I just don't see how you guys think we got screwed by his release. The guy wasn't coming back to the Rockets, period. He missed flights, games, meetings, events. He took shots at some girl. He got busted for weed posession. It was a horrible trade, but damn. The guy is a TOTAL zero. Let the Nets deal with the problem.
Beautifully ironic. Dec. 28, 2003, 10:37PM Eddie Griffin says he's going to Nets Associated Press EAST RUTHERORD, N.J. -- Troubled forward Eddie Griffin said Sunday he has agreed to play for the New Jersey Nets. Griffin, released Dec. 19 by the Houston Rockets, quickly found a new home with the team that originally drafted him. "I've decided to go play for the Nets," Griffin said in an interview with Houston television station KRIV. "I'm excited about going to play for (Nets head coach) Byron Scott and playing with (Nets guard) Jason Kidd. It's just going to be an exciting thing for me and I can't wait." New Jersey president Rod Thorn said Saturday that the Nets were in the running to sign Griffin, who played at nearby Seton Hall. Thorn did not return a telephone call Sunday night. Griffin said he had already received calls from Scott, Kidd and Richard Jefferson welcoming him to the team. The Nets have not had a consistent contributor off the bench this season and Griffin, the seventh pick in the 2001 draft, could fill that role. But New Jersey is taking a chance by signing a player who brings considerable legal baggage. Griffin was charged in November with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a woman accused him of hitting her three times in the face and shooting at her as she drove away from his home before dawn on Oct. 25. He will be arraigned on the charge Jan. 14. A second misdemeanor charge of assault related to the same encounter was dismissed last week. A separate case involving a charge of mar1juana possession is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 20. Griffin hopes to start with a clean slate in New Jersey, although he is uncertain when he will be able to join the Nets because of his legal problems. "New Jersey was the best fit for me," Griffin said. "I can get the most opportunity there. I felt like that's the team I fit in at." Griffin said a number of teams, including Detroit, Toronto, Philadelphia and Orlando, were in the running. He said he will sign for the balance of the season and again become a free agent. "It feels good," Griffin said. "It's a relief just to know where I'm going. I just got to get everything else behind me and I am ready to get back on the court." The 6-foot-10, 232-pound forward averaged 8.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.63 blocks in 150 career games with the Rockets. Drafted by New Jersey, Griffin's rights were traded to the Rockets for three first-round draft picks -- Jefferson, Brandon Armstrong and Jason Collins.
1. Neither Rad nor RJ nor Troy Murphy are great talents, but I can say in all honesty they are greater talents than EG with him out of the league and all. At worst Rad and Troy are 12/9 guys, RJ 16 PPG. EG's production is ZERO. And no Troy Murphy is not overrated. He's a role player and he does it well. 2. I don't know if you noticed, but AK-47's numbers in the 1st 2 years were similar to EG's, RJ's were not much better while Randolph's numbers were crap. Which is why I don't understand why people around him throw out crap like "if we didn't get EG we wouldn't have gotten Yao." Fact is, we would have gotten Yao either way. Except of course all the players mentioned above ARE producing now and ARE still in the league (because they actually wanna play ball instead of just smoke weed). Imagine AK-47 or Zach playing beside Yao, drool. The thing is, the fact that we even got the #1 pick having the least chance out of the 13 lottery teams means the big guy was meant for us.
We waived him, that means both us and the Net pay him. Kills me to know that he screwed us over but will be getting double the pay.
