Chris Douglas-Roberts shipped to the Bucks

Chris Douglas-Roberts(notes)? He's a good scorer, a fine talent! Lots of room to grow, lots of help to give. Teams would be lucky, really lucky, to find an NBA-level player of his ilk in the second round. Or in any future second round. So why is he being traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for a second round pick? Because the Nets are going for broke. And even if "going for broke" means going for the Rob Pelinka Special and picking up Carlos Boozer(notes) and Joe Johnson(notes) for way too much money, it's an attempt at bigger things. And when you're trying to clear space to come up with bigger things, cutting CDR's $850k contract for next season goes a ways toward that end. That's the thinking, at least. Another line of thinking wonders about the deal. CDR makes less than a million next season, and he can play and chew gum at the same time. He might not be the most popular guy around the Nets offices these days, but is he that destructive a force and (more ...