Jerry Stackhouse’s big mouth is not helping, either
Posted on February 15th, 2008 – 1:12 PMBy Michael Rand
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It looked as though Devean George was going to be the one who made the Dallas/Nets trade fall apart. But it appears the league also didn’t take to kindly to Jerry Stackhouse’s assertion that he would be back in Dallas after the Nets released him. Seems David Stern doesn’t like it when a team tries to work around rules. Hmmm, Joe Smith? In any event, here are the words from the ESPN.com story:
“I get 30 days to rest, then I’ll be right back,” Stackhouse told The Associated Press on Wednesday in response to the proposed trade. “I ain’t going nowhere.”
Stackhouse is referring to the widely reported assumption that New Jersey would immediately buy him out of his contract, which would allow him to re-sign with another team. Stackhouse’s preference is to return to Dallas, but according to league rules he’d have to wait at least 30 days. The 30-day rule was added to the league’s collective bargaining agreement as a response to a trade between Boston and Atlanta in 2005. In that deal, Boston sent Gary Payton to Atlanta to reacquire Antoine Walker with the understanding that the Hawks would immediately waive Payton, who then re-signed with Boston three days later.
The league frowned on this move, and instituted the 30-day rule. By flouting the rule so publicly, Stackhouse may have given the league no choice but to eliminate him from the deal or prevent the Mavericks from re-signing him. “If Stackhouse had kept quiet, the league wouldn’t have been able to prove anything,” one Western Conference executive said. “Now, it’s obvious that he talked to Mark Cuban about coming back to the Mavericks.”
A similar thing happened to us once, preventing us from landing a major role (can’t say which one) on the CBS sitcom “Designing Women.” Trust us, it would have been a lot different. C’est la vie.
24 Responses to "Jerry Stackhouse’s big mouth is not helping, either"
I’ve often said Rand was a poor man’s Meshach Taylor. Little did I know…
Check out this Annie Potts vehicle:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075762/
That’s one angry cat.
Ho-lee crap. Lucille Bluth, Bosley from Charlie’s Angels, and Mr. C? Clearly, this is the greatest TV movie of all time that doesn’t involve Tori Spelling.
According to the Amazon listing, it’s available in VHS and daguerreotype.
available in VHS and daguerreotype
No laserdisc? *sigh*
Invizabul jawbraker!
You can’t talk about that movie and not include Bill Bixby, also known as Dr. David Banner in the Incredible Hulk.
Alternate Titles: “A Dangerous Love” and “Don’t Steal My Baby”.
Which one sounds like a Skinemax late night feature? You be the judge.
So, is this going to be the answer for all ten movie quote questions next week?
I can’t believe I missed Bixby.
I can’t believe you missed Bixby either. Is it available in Betamax?
Randball - stop feeding my cat. No wonder his breath smells like Fresh Wok eggrolls.
I heard that the Strib was trading Rand to the St. Cloud Times for a color printer. The trade has not been publicly announced but insiders say the St. Cloud Times is getting the small end of the stick.
Or the short end of the stick, which ever makes more sense.
Jama: +3 for scooping LEN3 on this rumor.
If they don’t get a color printer and a typewriter in exchange for Rand, I’ll maintain that the Strib was fleeced.
The typewriter would be non-electric, of course. I’m not totally unrealistic.
Back to the topic of basketball, Jerry Stackhouse is a complete moron. He tanked the deal. Devean will wisen up — the pressure must be overwhelming for him. So, that will take care of itself.
The real issue is with Stackhouse. A complete idiot.
Stackhouse: Stupid or colossally stupid?
Stupid enough for McHale to trade for him?
Reports indicate that McHale is ready to pull the trigger on a three-way trade that would send Stackhouse and Al Jefferson to Boston, Corey Brewer and Rashad McCants to Dallas, and 27 copies of “Black Market Baby” to the Wolves.
SCH: Still a better deal than the purported Rand to St. Cloud rumor…
The typewriter invoked it’s no trade clause. Deal is dead
I heard the deal was dead after color printer said that it was going right back to St. Cloud after the StarTrib dumped it because they had to let go all of their IT staff.
Classic.
Cuban is getting his. LOVE IT. Love it even more that Walker is part of the reason.
Back in 03 Cuban had his friend in the media tell Walker if he didn’t opt out of his deal he would bench him. Now the rule Walker’s trade helped create is blocking this deal.
Seriously is karma awesome or what.
