This topic contains 3 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by AvatarAvatar DolanCare 14 years ago.

  • Author
    Posts
  • Posted on: Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:04am #688128
    AvatarAvatar
    fastdan
    Participant

    Once he passed the initial post-trade physical it shouldn’t have been OKC’s problem anymore. I don’t understand this ruling?

    0
  • Posted on: Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:06am #40913
    AvatarAvatar
    Cynthia
    Participant

     

    http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba–thunder-forced-to-give-up-draft-pick-to-celtics-as-compensation-for-jeff-green-s-health-issues.html

    NEW YORK – NBA commissioner David Stern has punished the Oklahoma City Thunder, ordering them to send a future draft pick to the Boston Celtics as compensation for the heart problems that Jeff Green suffered with the Celtics, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

    Jeff Green took a seat for the season in December. (USPW)

     

    Oklahoma City will send Boston the 2013 second-round pick that it controls from Charlotte. Expected to be the worst team in the league again, Charlotte’s pick will likely be the 31st overall.

    [Draft related: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist overcomes stuttering problem]

    After Green had season-ending surgery for an aortic aneurysm in December, Boston’s doctors constructed a case to take to the NBA trying to show proof that Oklahoma City owed the Celtics some kind of compensation, sources said. The Thunder had traded Green to the Celtics in February of 2011 as part of a package for center Kendrick Perkins.

     

    —————————————————————————

    This just popped up on the main page, just wanted to comment that I thought it was a bad move by the league. As far as I know, it’s not like the Thunder knew Green was going to have heart issues and be out for a season, so how does that justify them giving up their 2013 second round pick, especially one that is potentially going to be the 31st pick?

     

    0
  • Posted on: Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:16am #688133
    AvatarAvatar
    220
    Participant

    Apparently the Celtics could determine the Thunder had prior knowledge of Jeff Green’s health condition…that’s the only way the league could award the additional pick to the Celtics. Sucks that it ends up being the Bobcats second round pick too, since that will likely be an early second round pick.

    0
  • Posted on: Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:43am #688158
    AvatarAvatar
    DolanCare
    Participant

    I have a hard time that the league found evidence that the Thunder with held Green’s condition. Wouldn’t that be bigger news?? Maybe I’m naiive. 

    0
  • Author
    Posts

You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login