We have already seen what this trade has meant as the Magic finished off their season series with the 76ers on Sunday.
Isaiah Canaan has provided a nice offensive boost for the woeful Philadelphia team. Canaan can actually shoot the ball — 52.5 percent effective field goal percentage for Canaan over 40.7 percent effective field goal percentage from Carter-Williams.
That seemingly changes the Sixers from a defensive-focused team to an offensive-focused one. Getting the team to commit to Brett Brown’s defensive principles will be the key for the Sixers to have whatever little success they can have.
Philadelphia is a team that is still not trying to win, to put it lightly. Even though Brown’s guys play extremely hard.
If anything the moves Philadelphia made put them further behind on their rebuild (trashing not just a second year, but a third year too). That should give Orlando some more space to breathe and improve.
This one will not have a ton of impact in the Eastern Conference. The Knicks pretty much unloaded the veteran Prigioni for a player who played 17 games with the Sixers this year and has been traded three times since August 2014.
Shved’s career has not had the greatest look. And he really has never played for a winning team either.
Some guys have no luck. And who knows what the value of a second round pick is these days.
Uh oh, Tracy McGrady needs to watch out!
Oh, it isn’t 2004? I do not have to worry about Prince locking down and guarding McGrady? Well, this is awkward.
Another nostalgia grab from Stan Van Gundy, but this one has some interesting Playoff implications. Both the Celtics and Pistons are in the middle of the Playoff hunt and both could see benefit from their acquisitions.
Prince is obviously a more short-term acquisition and whatever defense the Pistons can get him from will surely benefit. Prince would seemingly fit what Stan Van Gundy wants to do — he is still a decent defender and shooter (47.7 percent on 3-pointers this year).
For the long term though, this move is more about the Celtics getting a hold of Jonas Jerebko.
Boston is still in that weird position just outside the Playoffs and trying to build for the future. The Celtics do not have that player to build around yet. But somehow they are still good enough to be in the East’s conversation.
Jerebko figures to have a chance at cracking the regular rotation when all is said and done. He still has some potential… you would think. That is why the Celtics wanted him, right?
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