Sports Thread #3 For 2/17/10: Antawn Jamison To The Cavaliers

Give the Cavaliers the title now:

Amid reports of a three-way trade between Washington, Cleveland and the Los Angeles Clippers, Wizards forward Antawn Jamison has left the arena right before Washington's game with Minnesota.

Washington would reportedly receive Cavs center Zyundras Ilgauskas and a first-round draft choice from Cleveland, along with forward Al Thornton and forward/center Brian Skinner from the Clippers.
Jamison left the arena as the game was starting and declined to comment to reporters.

After how nutty the Caron Butler for Josh Howard deal was for them, it made perfect sense for the Wizards to just blow up the team instead of insulting Jamison by letting him stay on a sorry team and deny him his first legitimate chance at a ring.

But for Cleveland, this was the deal that everyone pointed to that they needed to make after Stephen Jackson was traded to the Warriors to the Bobcats.

Jamison is more versatile than Amare Stoudamire and compliments LeBron James better than the soon to be ex-Suns power forward.

This was the move that Cleveland had to make no matter what there record was to take pressure off of Mo Williams being the No.2, as well as drop Shaq, Delonte West and others for handing the scoring load.

And they have somehow manage to pull off the trade without giving up J.J. Hickson?

I really feel for big Z, as he has been the longest running Cavs there forever. I mean, he was there when fat Shawn Kemp and Terell Brandon where there. He was there during the Derek Anderson Era! To see him get traded to the hapless now rebuilding Wizards is a punch to a pure basketball fans heart, and some Cavs fans will feel a little melancholy about it.

But they sure will not complain at all if this translates into a long awaited championship season. And with this deal, it should culminate as such.