Warriors Trade Stephen Jackson To Spurs For Richard Jefferson

Disclaimer: Richard Jefferson is not as good at basketball as Lebron James

Wednesday, I wrote a whole piece about how the Warriors are tanking the season and are trying to score big in the upcoming NBA lottery. Then Thursday happened, which caught me off guard. Not the fact that Thursday followed Wednesday, which is a weekly occurrence I expect, but the events that occurred on Thursday. The Warriors reunion with Stephen Jackson lasted about as long as my bowel movement does after I’ve eaten chicken tikka masala from my college dining commons. The Warriors shipped Jackson to the Spurs in exchange for small forward Richard Jefferson and a 1^st round draft pick. What’s concerning to me, is that Richard Jefferson is better than Stephen Jackson, which seems odd to write. He shoots 3 pointers at a 42% clip which is good enough for 17^th in the NBA and doesn’t have the baggage that Stack Jack carries with him. Still, he’s the sixth or seventh best player on a good team, and his PER (player efficiency rating) is 246^th in the NBA, which puts him in the class of Andray Blatche and Carlos Delfino, which is never a good place to be. Basically, he’s going to improve the post- Monta Warriors, but he’s not going to guide them anywhere close to where they want to be. By improving, the Warriors are now jeapordizing their chance of keeping their 1^st round draft pick, and they didn’t improve enough to where they can seriously be considered for the playoffs.

That said, I’m not one to doubt Jerry West, because he knows basketball like I know chapstick brands. And I know chapstick brands. West probably has some elaborate master plan that he’s going to cash in on eventually. However on the surface, this trade perplexes me, just like it perplexes me that UNLV loss today after I picked them to go to the Elite Eight. It just goes to show I have no idea what I’m talking about. Jerry West does. I trust Jerry. Hey if the Warriors can make a playoff run this season after this move, it would be awesome no matter what the circumstance.