Get ready to see Richard Jefferson switch to the power forward spot.
This off-season, Jefferson expects to pack on fifteen or twenty pounds. He’ll do it by drinking half a case of PBR early each evening, followed by some Jäger shots in the dirt bars of Milwauee, all washed down with six or seven different kinds of pie.
Nets president Rod Thorn says Jefferson is definitely bummed by his recent move to Milwaukee:
“He didn’t seem very happy,” said Thorn, who emphasized yesterday he had not yet spoken to Jefferson. “I spoke to his agent, I called him, texted him. I like Richard. He was here for a long time and I’m sure he still expected to be here. Unless you are the one pushing for it, it’s always difficult when you are traded. You are going to a new place, have new teammates. It’s hard at first.”
I’m guessing Richard isn’t into the whole, like, Milwaukee thing. New Jersey was only (arguably) slightly above average as a team, but as a city a) it’s a really short drive to New York and b) offers the opportunity for a guided tour of Soprano sites and old Springsteen haunts. Milwaukee is a short drive to… the rest of Wisconsin.
Side note: Is it not odd that the Bucks so easily gave up Yi Jianlian? He looked like a mini-Nowitzki during the first half of the season — though a little softer (’softer than Dirk?’). And his China link apparently provided a heavy revenue stream — for the proof, look back at the Bucks’ courtside advertisements last season.
Was Richard Jefferson simply too good a return to pass up? Though a definite talent, he’s yet another small forward shooter on a team full of small forward shooters. Perhaps we should expect to see either Desmond Mason or Charlie Villanueva on the trading block; and I haven’t even mentioned newly-drafted Joe Alexander, another guy who might struggle for playing time at the tightly-packed three spot.
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