Suns get Bledsoe/Butler, Reddick & Duds to Clips and Bucks?

[Jackal]

Adrian Wojnarowski: Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler will go to the Suns, Jared Dudley and JJ Redick to the Clippers and 2 2nd-round picks to Bucks, sources tell Yahoo.

Two second round picks.

So the Bucks traded Tobias Harris to get 32 games of JJ Redick, then flipped him for 2 second-round picks? Well done.

A backcourt of Dragic & Bledsoe?

Clippers will pay Redick/Dudley about same combined as Butler/Bledsoe - fill need at 2/3 - team hoping to get Carl Landy with MLE

Donald's son in law means business!

[Its_asdf]

Two perfect role players for the Clippers, both seem to be 3 and D kind of guys which should thrive in a Paul and Griffin centric system.

[Andrew]

If Bledsoe's on his way out, I'd say that the rumblings that Paul is more or less 100% committed to returning to the Clippers are accurate. Pretty solid deal for the Clippers and Suns, not so stellar for the Bucks but I suppose it remains to be seen what they do with the picks.

[[Q]]

well the bucks get a trade exception/cap room right? they should use it for a new free agent but they'll most likely try to save money with it. Suns are the big winners turning dudley into caron & bledsoe. that makes me sad that they got traded to phoenix, i was a fan of theirs. i think overall, it wasn't much of an upgrade for the clips. maybe a bit better defensively, but vinny did not play caron as much as he should have last season. what a waste

[benji]

If Bledsoe's on his way out, I'd say that the rumblings that Paul is more or less 100% committed to returning to the Clippers are accurate.

Paul already agreed to his extension on Monday. This trade was apparently conceived from start to finish in the less than 24 hours since that agreement.

[Alejandrov011]

I think nobody was waiting to have Phoenix getting Eric Bledsoe for almost nothing! well... Jared Dudley was the glue guy of the team, pretty good shooter and with a salary cap friendly contract ($4.25 M). I believe that Bledsoe will be in the starting lineup with Dragic, they're doing what they wanted to do last season withg Eric Gordon, playing a little sized backcourt.

I just hope the Suns don't buyout Caron Butler, he can be really useful!

Now we have to get rid of some forwards, the Suns have the Twins Morris, Gortat, Scola, Beasley, Frye... Now Len.

[Patr1ck]

Clippers fans are going to miss Bledsoe. I'm going to be a little peeved if he has a break out year. I don't know if they are going to have him start along side Dragic or back him up. It would kind of suck for Bledsoe to go from a backup on a contender to a backup on a last place team.

[[Q]]

i feel you on that one. i mean, on one hand you wont be able to pay him if and when he becomes a FA, but can't you just enjoy his services until then? i missed seeing eric gordon in action last year and will miss watching bledsoe & caron
i felt that the team was good enough to win it all (perhaps they were even better without chauncey), and it was just a coaching issue. but they felt otherwise

[Andrew]

Even if they had Phil Jackson on the sidelines, I don't think that Clippers team would've had enough to top the Heat, or get by the Spurs in the West.

[Patr1ck]

Even if they had Phil Jackson on the sidelines, I don't think that Clippers team would've had enough to top the Heat, or get by the Spurs in the West.

I agree about the Spurs, but not Miami. They split the season series and the game they lost was the first game back from injuries for Paul, Griffin, and Billups. I think it would have been a seven game series, though.

[Andrew]

I'd have still picked the Heat in that series.

[Patr1ck]

I can't argue against your pick. The only series the Clips have won could be looked at as luck. They had some clutch performances, and then got ran over by the Spurs. A series is also different than single games. It would have required some savvy adjustments and a better coach. There is also some tension between the two clubs of you don't remember that one game where a lot of words were exchanged.

The only thing I would have picked is that another Mosgov would have happened to one of the Heat's big's.

I can only hope that with these new players and coach that they can stay healthy and get to the conference finals, at least.

[hova-]

The Bucks front office is so bad ... don't know what to say. Just resign Ellis and Jennings and get stuck in mediocrity, please.

[stereoxide]

A super draft steal in one of the 2nd round picks the Bucks received can make this trade a win for them, but surely the chances are bleak. Meanwhile the Suns get a good athletic PG in Bledsoe and a solid SF in Butler, maybe to give inconsistent Beasley some hard time in the rotation. While the Clippers get a good shooter and defender in Dudley and another good shooter in Reddick.

[Stress Fracture]

Poor Kendall Marshall. Can the Suns just trade Dragic?

[Andrew]

Well, on the bright side for the Bucks, they are reportedly nearing a deal with O.J. Mayo. That's not too bad a move.

[stereoxide]

Mayo, Ellis and Jennings. Good luck with that.

[Andrew]

Sounds like Ellis is on the way out, so more likely it'll be Mayo and Jennings.

[NovU]

Mayo in his 5th season into the league, he still hasn't had a season where he had above average PER. And he likes the ball in his hand, a lot. I almost feel sorry for Jennings.

[Brave Sir Rubin]

JJ is a beast. I'll take him alone over Bledsoe any day. YEAH BOI!

[shadowgrin]

Like the way you would take Jamaal Tinsley then, Pavel?