SCOTT JACOBS

Detroit is mining for one last title run, and today, they traded for a golden Nugget, acquiring prolific scorer Allen Iverson from Denver.  The move is not official yet, but it should be done soon.  So the question becomes why?

Not why the Nuggets would do this trade, but why would the Pistons make this deal?

Okay, so AI’s contract comes off of the books at the end of the year, but again, I ask, why make this deal?  Okay, so the Pistons are looking to get younger and sort of re-make what has been the East’s model franchise in the 2000’s, but again why make this trade?

Why trade Mr. Big Shot, ChaChaChauncceeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy BBBBBBBBBubububilllluuuuuuppppssss and McDyess away for a past his prime, ball hog, me first scorer who is rapidly declining each season?  Why break up a team that has been the anti-me first team in the NBA for years now, for a guy who always wants to shoot?  Why break up a core that once again made the Eastern Conference Finals last season?  Why, take all that for granted, and push your chips to the center of the table for a one year trial?

Why?

I understand the Pistons were looking to remake their team.  That was no secret.  But early rumors a few months ago said they might try to pry away Carmelo from Denver.  Why they would want AI is kind of beyond me.  Is there like a garage sale on NBA.com that says trade in your good, clutch players that help your team tick, for a used up, past his prime mega-star?  First Shaq, then Kidd, then this?  Don’t teams get it?  Remaking your team around over the hill stars just doesn’t work once the season starts.

Billups was the engine that helped Detroit go.  McDyess was the consistent center who did the dirty work.  AI is the guy who has led one team to a championship appearance.  Billups helped fuel the Pistons to a title, and nearly a second. He’s under contract until 2011.

Detroit is basically playing the Milwaukee Brewers card here: we’ll pick up a guy for the rest of the season and then figure things out after that.  I don’t like the move.  You may not agree.  I just feel like teamwork and chemistry, trumps statistics.  What Billups does doesn’t always show up in the box-score.  Billups is a special player, an unselfish player, a good ball handlerwho is also a very good foul shooter.  AI is a very good shooter as well, but he’s a big personality.  How will he coexist with a team as unselfish as there is?  Does he fit right in?  No one knows.

Meanwhile for Denver, it’s the end of a fun, but ultimately very disappointing era.  Iverson was supposed to be the guy who got Denver over the hump.  Instead, they never got past the first round.  You could argue they will be a better team with Billups, and McDyess, who will be making his THIRD stint with the Nuggs.

I would simply argue that when we look back on this trade, it will be one the Pistons will regret.

Sammy Stephens gained national fame in 2007 with his commercial for Montgomery Flea Market where he rapped about how, “It’s just like, It’s just like, It’s just like, a minnnni-mall.” And how, “We talkin bout Flea Market.” Oh course AI has always been talkin bout practice. Really it comes down to this argument.

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