Trade Grades
Nets get: PF/SF Thaddeus Young
Timberwolves get: PF/C Kevin Garnett
If I would've told you before the deadline that this would be the one trade that the Nets would do, you would've thought I was crazy. The Nets did not move ANY of their big contracts in C Brook Lopez, PG Deron Williams, or SG/SF Joe Johnson, despite plenty of rumors swirling on all three and Lopez in particular. Instead, the Nets added MORE money to their already gargantuan payroll with Young being due $18.9 million over the next two years. If I was grading just swapping the about-to-retire, empty tank of gas that is Kevin Garnett on an overpaid and expiring contract for a young, talented Thaddeus Young on a reasonable contract, Brooklyn would get an A+ and it's not even close. However, with the goal at this deadline being to SHED salary and not take more money back, this move is a head-scratcher from a financial point of view, despite Young's fair contract.
Grade: B
Nets get: PF/SF Thaddeus Young
Timberwolves get: PF/C Kevin Garnett
If I would've told you before the deadline that this would be the one trade that the Nets would do, you would've thought I was crazy. The Nets did not move ANY of their big contracts in C Brook Lopez, PG Deron Williams, or SG/SF Joe Johnson, despite plenty of rumors swirling on all three and Lopez in particular. Instead, the Nets added MORE money to their already gargantuan payroll with Young being due $18.9 million over the next two years. If I was grading just swapping the about-to-retire, empty tank of gas that is Kevin Garnett on an overpaid and expiring contract for a young, talented Thaddeus Young on a reasonable contract, Brooklyn would get an A+ and it's not even close. However, with the goal at this deadline being to SHED salary and not take more money back, this move is a head-scratcher from a financial point of view, despite Young's fair contract.
Grade: B