Celtics Trade Kendrick Perkins To The Thunder For Jeff Green

Celtics Trade Kendrick Perkins To The Thunder For Jeff Green

Celtics Trade Kendrick Perkins To The Thunder For Jeff Green

LATEST: Boston's willingness to part with so many big men has many speculating that they are set to pick up a player that's been bought out, perhaps Troy Murphy.

UPDATE: Nevermind, Boston is even thinner at center than we thought. The Celtics have also traded Semih Erden and Luke Harangody to Cleveland for a second round pick.

EARLIER: The Boston Celtics have agreed to send Kendrick Perkins and Nate Robinson to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic.

The move provides the Thunder with the size they've desperately sought to compete with the big front lines of the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, and other Western Conference contenders.

Perkins missed most of the season with a torn ACL, and is expected to miss the next few games with a torn MCL. He is averaging 7.2 points per game and 8.1 rebounds.

Boston is evidently confident that Jermaine O'Neal and Shaquille O'Neal will be effective when they return from injuries. This leaves Boston without a true center, but it does give them a 3-point threat. Semih Erden, Glen Davis, and Kevin Garnett will form the team's front line with Kristic in the interim. Green is averaging 15.2 points per game and 5.6 rebounds.

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Nenad Krstic Was Arrested For Throwing That Chair

Nenad Krstic Was Arrested For Throwing That Chair

 

Following yesterday's basketbrawl at the Acropolis Tournament, Athens police arrested Nenad Krstic for his role in the fight since his chair hit Yannis Bouroussis, leaving Bouroussis with a "bloody wound on the side of his head." Plate-breakingly bizarre updates inside.

The brawl couldn't have come at a worse time for the two teams. The world championships are next week, and both teams are scheduled to appear—and play again. However, if—and this is a real investigative body—"Greece's sports violence squad" is looking into the brawl, interviewing participants and witnesses, and so on, both sides are going to be adversely affected. Moreover, FIBA will be conducting an investigation of its own and disciplining any players it deems responsible for the brawl. Basically, it looks as if the Greek and Serbian squads will be gutted before the tournament either by FIBA or the Greek sports kops.

But how will this affect the U.S. squad's chances in the tournament? Aside from making the team's path to victory that much easier, the event gave Coach K a chance to do what Coach K does best: teach young men the right way to behave. After showing his team the brawl as an example of what not to do, Krzyzewski said, "We just told our guys that if something happens to walk away and not to pull anyone from another team, to just pull your teammate."

There you have it. Sage wisdom from one of the most acclaimed coaches in history: "Guys, try not to act like fucking idiots if things get heated while we're playing a country with which we have a long history of contentious relations, OK?"
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