The Cleveland Cavaliers in the middle of a 10-47 season are looking for first round draft picks and they acquired one last night when they traded point guard Mo Williams and small forward Jamario Moon to the Los Angeles Clippers for a 2011 first round draft pick and point guard Baron Davis.
Usually fans get excited about big trades, I'm going to hold my excitement until the NBA Draft this coming June. I'm excited about more ping-pong balls in the hopper come NBA Lottery time (of course, the Clippers need to oblige by missing the play-offs). I'm indifferent about the players.
Mo Williams has had a terrible season, disappointed LeBron James left town, is always injured and is in the middle of a bad contract. Baron Davis is your typical NBA nomad malcontent. He is having an even worse season than Williams, previously feuded with Cavs coach Byron Scott while both of them were with New Orleans, gets goofed on by Clippers owner Donald Sterling, is always injured and is in the middle of an even worse contract. Jamario Moon in his second year with the Cavaliers had a chance to take over the starting role at small forward with LeBron leaving and has failed to take advantage. Last we saw Moon was allowing a career-high 30 points to Houston's Chase Budinger in last night's 124-119 loss.
Current Cavaliers General Manager Chris Grant has pulled off a trade that would make former Cavs GM Jim Paxson proud: unloading a bunch of garbage for another teams' garbage.
I still think this is a good trade
The Cavaliers added a potential second lottery pick. Cleveland has increased their chances of landing the top player in the NBA draft and may even land two players in the top five. Unless Davis has a change of heart and decides to be a positive influence on young point guard Ramon Sessions and his teammates, he won't be around long. Don't look now, Cleveland is sitting on a lot of draft picks.
Clearly Mo Williams best days are behind him and the Cavs added a lottery pick. What's not to like.
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