Seems like it's taken forever for the trade market to get going this year, but finally the first big trade broke today, leading up to the thursday deadline:
Bogut and Stephen Jackson to Golden State for Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh, and Kwame Brown (expiring contract).
I like it for Golden State, assuming Bogut gets healthy; they've been in the market for a elite center for a couple years and keep striking out. Obviously they're looking to next year already.
From Milwaukee's perspective, I don't really like this. They've been making do with a hodgepodge of PFs playing at C during Bogut's absence, and Kwame doesn't help much, and Udoh is another PF (albeit a very talented one). I also don't really see Jennings and Ellis being great together. Like with Ellis and Curry, both need the ball in their hands to be effective. They didn't give up much from their current roster and picked up an elite scorer, but I don't think it makes them more than first round fodder for Miami or Chicago.
We'll see if this opens the floodgates and the some of other rumoured trades start happening.
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