Sixers Season 3

[hunt]

my favorite billy king moments

Draft 1999
                  Traded a future first-round pick to the Atlanta Hawks for the draft rights to forward Jumaine Jones.

February 16 2000
            Traded guard-forward Bruce Bowen, guard Larry Hughes and forward Billy Owens to the Golden State Warriors for forward Toni Kukoc from the Chicago Bulls.

August 3 2001
            traded forward Roshown McLeod and a future first-round draft pick to the Boston Celtics for forward Jerome Moiso

Draft 2002
             traded second-round picks in 2004 and 2006 for the draft rights to forward-center Efthimios Rentzias.

December 18 2002
            Traded forward Mark Bryant and Art Long and a future first-round draft pick to the Denver Nuggets for forward Kenny Thomas from the Houston Rockets.

August 11 2005
            Signed center Steven Hunter.

February 1 2006
            Traded center Steven Hunter to the New Orleans Hornets for two second-round picks; signed center Zendon Hamilton to a 10-day contract.
Traded rescinded one week later.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The Kukoc deal seems to be pretty much the worst of the bunch.

[hunt]

The Kukoc deal seems to be pretty much the worst of the bunch.

agreed.
trading away 1st round picks for jumaine jones, jerome moiso, & kenny thomas didn't help either.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

KT wasn't too bad and landed us Webber (which was at least an EFFORT at getting help for Iverson).  Jumaine had some potential at the time.  I think Moiso saw less than 60 minutes on the court the entire time he played for the Sixers, though.  That one was really, really, really bad.

[Rome]

King's signings of Korver & Steven Hunter are all you need to know about his ability to judge basketball talent.

Duke alumnus or not, he's a walking clusterfarg of a G.M.

The fact that he's lasted this long is a testament to his bosses shocking ineptitude in selecting the right architect for that team.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I think its time for Billy to get fired too.

But can you really blame him for trades and signing before Brown left? I think most of that was all Larry.

[Sgt PSN]

No, you can't blame him for the trades that were made when LB was still with the team.  But you can blame him for everything that's happened since then. 

Also, I'm not mad at him for the Webber trade.  Obviously it doesn't appear to be working out but I think that was a move that needed to be done. 

[BigEd76]

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[PoopyfaceMcGee]

If the Sixers trade that man away this season, I'm officially a fan of whatever team he goes to.

[Mad-Lad]

imagine if the ball was actually passed to him during a regular game.  he could be a pretty good player.

[The BIGSTUD]

Imagine if every game had no defense like all-star games. Maybe he could score 30 every night.

Sorry, but just had to play the other side.

[PhillyPhreak54]

He is quickly becoming one of my favorite Philly athletes.

The dunk contest sucks nowadays but I'll watch it just because of him. I hope he tears it up.

[PhillyGirl]

He is quickly becoming one of my favorite Philly athletes.

The dunk contest sucks nowadays but I'll watch it just because of him. I hope he tears it up.

He has been since last year for me.

And when I posted about him being in the dunk contest and that I was stoked about it, I think I got laughed at. And last year when I bitched about him being passed over for the dunk contest, I got laughed at.

I sense a theme here. 

[MDS]

Ha. Loser.

[hunt]

from espn insider:

Will Sixers trade Iverson after all?by: Marc Stein
posted: Friday, February 17, 2006

I don't think the Sixers could move Allen Iverson before next Thursday's trade deadline even if they wanted to.

But I do think they're thinking hard about what they do want to do.

I think so because a Sixers insider whom I trust unflinchingly tells me that the club is indeed investigating its pre-deadline Iverson trade possibilities.

AI himself has described such speculation as an annual media production that he's learned to live with every February, but such rumbles -- at least in my memory -- have never seemed so loud and, well, real. That's undoubtedly because the Sixers are not only fading in the standings with that high payroll ... they're also struggling at the gate more than they ever have in the Iverson Era.

It was thus a must on All-Star Media Day to ask Mr. Answer if he's as curious about his future as all of us.

Answer's answer? A weary no.

He definitely looked worn down, more subdued than I've seen him in these settings, but he rejected the idea that it was time to go to his Philly bosses and get his own answers about the trade chatter and why it seems to be getting louder. Iverson instead reiterated his long-held hope that he has the opportunity to retire as a Sixer -- "That's what I want," he reaffirmed -- and says his strategy in these matters is "just try to let it blow over and just hope that it doesn't happen."

My sense remains that the Sixers prefer to keep searching for the right mix to put around Iverson and that, as with Kevin Garnett in Minnesota, a trade of this magnitude could happen only in the summertime anyway because mere discussion of such a move is so combustible. Yet as much as you struggle sometimes to believe that Iverson will be 31 in June when you see how freak-of-nature dynamic he still is for a little man, it's also my sense that the list of teams willing to take on Iverson is probably getting shorter.

As one front-office executive suggests, at least two teams that previously figured to have certain Iverson interest because they so badly need a ticket-seller -- Atlanta and Orlando -- are starting to assemble interesting (and inexpensive) young cores that would likely lead them to pass on trying to build around Iverson. That's even though Iverson, no matter how much attendance has fallen in Philly, remains a huge box-office draw on the road.

Just a couple months ago, I thought Philly finally had its first two-man core of the Iverson Era. AI and Chris Webber had me convinced that they could play together, meaning that Philly only had to worry about getting the supporting cast right them. Now? There's so much tension in Sixerland that the club is obligated to call around and gauge all of its options.

But there are at least two East All-Stars here in Houston praying that it doesn't go any farther.

That would be Iverson and his teammate for the weekend: Rasheed Wallace.

"Hell yeah," 'Sheed said when asked if he's bothered by the Iverson speculation. "Not only as a Phlly guy -- I'm a Sixers fan. That's the squad I grew with up. I don't think he'll go, though. That'd be like trading Doc."

Something yesteryear's Sixers thought they could never do to Julius Erving.