Driving > Disco

Well, that was over quick. The Memphis Grizzlies and the Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed in principle to the following deal:

Memphis gets: O.J. Mayo, Marko Jaric, Greg Buckner and the corpse formerly known as Antoine Walker

Minny gets: Kevin Love, Mike Miller and the corpses formerly known as Brian Cardinal and Jason Collins.

I guess if you step back and look at it from the outside, we got the #3 pick from the #5 spot, although we did lose Mike Miller, one of the best pure shooters in the league. All in all, it feels a little like one of those .85 cents for a $1 trade, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure what we ended up with. I can say this, Walker, Cardinal and Collins are all dead weight, so at least we were able to unload two stiffs in exchange for one. That does leave our roster with like 20 players though, so I'm sure some of these guys won't ever don their new teams' jerseys anyway.

Everyone keeps talk about Mayo's upside (although that upside managed to lose to Beasley's K-State team in the first round of the NCAA tourney last year and totally screw up my bracket). As I mentioned before, I think I liked K-Love, not for his "potential" but for what he brings to the table right now. Oh well. Good on ya, K-Love. Don't let those Minnesotans corrupt you.

Also, I liked this blurb from ESPN.com: "Wolves GM Kevin McHale was infatuated with Love, but felt that the team had to select Mayo and use him to acquire more assets." So, is he sending him directly to Boston in exchange for Sam Cassel, or will he wait a couple of months?