Hornets trade Wesley, get Nachbar and Jackson

[thegrahamcrackr]

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Rockets Acquire David Wesley from Hornets
Houston Sends Jim Jackson and Bostjan Nachbar to New Orleans


The Houston Rockets have acquired veteran guard David Wesley from the New Orleans Hornets in exchange for forwards Jim Jackson and Bostjan Nachbar, Rockets General Manager Carroll Dawson announced today. Wesley joins the Rockets with career averages of 13.3 points, 4.8 assists and 1.46 steals in 789 NBA games.
“The addition of David solidifies our backcourt,” said Dawson. “David can play both guard positions and has proven himself as a consistent and effective scorer with very good ball-handling skills. It is never easy parting with players such as Bostjan and Jimmy but in this league you have to give up quality players in order to get quality players.”

Wesley averaged 13.9 points (133-342) and 4.2 assists while starting in all 26 games for the Hornets this season. Wesley led the Hornets in points (361), assists (109), steals (35) and 3-PT shots made (28). His season highlights include a 23-point performance at Charlotte on Dec. 14th and a 10-assist night at Milwaukee on Nov. 13th.

Wesley began his NBA career by signing with the New Jersey Nets for the 1993-94 season as an undrafted free agent out of Baylor. The following season, he signed with the Boston Celtics as an unrestricted free agent where he played for three seasons (1994-97) before signing as a free agent with the Hornets. Wesley played the past 8-plus years for the Hornets and leaves as the organization’s all-time leader in games started (517) and ranks second behind Dell Curry in total career points (7,670) and 3-Point FGs made (644).

Jackson was averaging 13.3 points, 3.4 assists and 4.8 rebounds per game in 24 starts for the Rockets this season. Nachbar averaged 3.1 points, .6 assists and 1.5 rebounds while seeing action in 16 games, including two starts.

 

[slinslin]

Hornets got the better deal.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

I like Jackson and all, but Wesley has been one of the bright spots for them. I really don't think this will help them at all, but it will clear salary. (Assuming Wesley has more years on his deal, havent looked it up)

 

[slinslin]

Wesley is shooting 39% on the season.

 

[SirStefan32]

I think Hornets got a better deal. They get two decent players in return for one.

Stefan

 

[Tank]

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You Rang?

 

[elindholm]

And Jim Jackson soars to the top of the "hot fantasy free-agent pickups" list.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

And Jim Jackson soars to the top of the "hot fantasy free-agent pickups" list.

Definitely! Hope you were able to get him. He should score a lot for the Hornets.

 

[hcsilla]

I like Jackson and all, but Wesley has been one of the bright spots for them.

If someone - as a best player of a 2-25 team - puts up 14 PPG with 39%, it's hardly a bright spot.

I think that was a stupid trade for the Rockets. Jackson is a better player than Wesley and his contract is twice smaller.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

If someone - as a best player of a 2-25 team - puts up 14 PPG with 39%, it's hardly a bright spot.

I think that was a stupid trade for the Rockets. Jackson is a better player than Wesley and his contract is twice smaller.

Not only that, the Rockets got smaller out of it, which usually isn't a good thing.

 

[George O'Brien]

I have no idea what the Rockets are doing, but then again I'm not sure they do either.

 

[Joe Mama]

I'm not sure I like the trade for the Rockets either. However I have to disagree with some of you recording Wesley's shooting percentage. I don't have any statistics to back myself up here, but it seems to me that shooting percentage is usually dropped for the best player on a bad bad team. Even though he is shooting just 39% so far this season Wesleyis a better shooter than Jim Jackson. He's also a decent sized combo guard who should fit well in the backcourt with Tracy McGrady. Out that he shoots much better for the Rockets when he's taking a lot of open shots.

Joe Mama

 

[scotsman13]

personally this move just goes to show what a totally clueless GM and coach houston has. the biggest problem with the rockets beside their gm and coach is that they dont have any depth. so what do you do to answer the problem of depth? oh yea lets trade one of the better player (relitive term) and the best young guy on the team not named yoa for another player who is over the hill. after tmac and yoa there is no one on their team that would even make the top 8 on the suns. hunter, casey and barbs are all better then anyone else on their team (and it is said that the suns have no bench). to top all of this off the rockets will be in the salery cap sink hole. yoa will get the 25% and then tmac is getting a great deal more then that. the rockets may have as much as 75% of their cap room taken up in just 2 players.l

 

[sunsfn]

Bostjan Nachbar is one of the players that played for D'Antoni in europe and was an excellent player there............he is 6' 9" and can run and shoot, sounds like someone the suns would like to have.

 

[George O'Brien]

Nachbar is something of three point specialist. Of the 15 baskets he has made this season, 10 were three pointers. He is 47.5 % for three but only 34.9% shooting overall.

Bostjan Nachbar
New Orleans Hornets
Position: F
Height: 6-9 Weight: 221
From: Slovenia
Player file | Team stats

2004-05 Statistics
PPG 3.1
RPG 1.9
APG .6
SPG .06
BPG .00
FG% .349
FT% .750
3P% .476
MPG 12.8

 

[Gaddabout]

The biggest problem with the Rockets is they are SLOW. They have no athleticism. I'm surprised they didn't have Clarence Weatherspoon and/or Juwan Howard on the block. If Abdur Rahim is on the block, the Rockets are one of the few teams he could really help. Really, any forward that can run is going to improve that roster. The addition of Wesley does nothing for me, and at least Jim Jackson has been spotted playing defense on occasion. I loved what JJ did in Sacramento. Wouldn't mind if he came to Phoenix. He'd be ideal coming off the bench in this offense.

 

[Gaddabout]

Bostjan Nachbar is one of the players that played for D'Antoni in europe and was an excellent player there............he is 6' 9" and can run and shoot, sounds like someone the suns would like to have.

Nachbar's athleticism is overblown. He was athletic in Europe. He's an average joe in the NBA. He a C+ player at best, and there's nothing that shows he's going to be better than that.

 

[F-Dog]

I guess the Rockets figured it out--the one player they've really been missing from this summer's trade was Cuttino Mobley!


Seriously, it's comforting to know how bad the Rockets' front office is. They knew they were going to have problems at PG all summer, floundered around while guys like Skip Alston and Damon Jones were snapped up, and now they've finally traded their third-best player to fix the problem--and what did they wind up with? Yet another short two with a big contract. At least JVG should know what to do with Wesley, right?

Mark Jackson was on NBA Fastbreak last night, telling the masses that Jim Jackson shouldn't even report to the Hornets. So, the Rockets killed their morale with this deal, too. I wonder whether Reece Gaines is in for some PT now...


IMO Nachbar is one of the leading candidates for Casey Jacobsen's spot next season--he's played with D'Antoni, he shoots, and he should be cheaper than Casey. The Suns could probably sign him for a couple of years for a piece of the LLE.

In fact, now that I think about it, Nachbar might be the favorite for that job. I wonder whether "Boci" can guard SGs, or anybody for that matter.