The Silly Season - Part Three - by Brian Geltzeiler
Steve Nash legacy
It’s that time of year again. The trade deadline is right around the corner. Rumors are flying. GMs and personnel executives are lying through their teeth and asking far too much from their peers for players who are more times than not overpaid and not worth it. Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon refers to Christmas as the Silly Season right here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOP6uMTYaM8 . In the NBA, this period of time is as silly as any. Let’s just hope this group of NBA personnel executives don’t pull someone off a ledge with them like Mel does in Lethal Weapon.
This column is devoted to the Silly Season. We’re loaded with rumors of star players being available. In this hectic compressed season, the schedule is the great equalizer, which makes the possibility of random outcomes at playoff time more likely. Players could very well be flying around the league like bullets in the Wild West. Here a...
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March 14, 2012
