Huge 3-way trade

A major trade occured one minute before the trade deadline on Thursday, Feb. 21. This trade involved 3 teams and 11 players. The 3 teams included Cleveland, Chicago, and Seattle. Cleveland aquired Ben Wallace, Wally Szczerbiak, Joe Smith, Delonte West, and Chicago's second round pick in 2009. Chicago aquired Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons, and Shannon Brown. Sonics ended up recieving Ira Newble, Donyell Marshall, and Adrian Griffin. This trade was huge because it was very last second and a huge surprise because no one was expecting something this large to occur. ESPN and all the sports writers are really surprised that the Sonics even went in on this trade, because they came out with less talent then what they traded away. This trade made absoultely no sense for the Sonics to even go in on. ESPN says that Cleveland came out on top of this trade even after trading away two great players in Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden, they recieved Ben Wallace, who they say has been one of the most disappointing pick-ups all year. The Bulls got him this past post season and he has struggled all year trying to get something going. ESPN still believes that Cleveland came out the best in this trade and Chicago came out all right getting Larry Hughes and Drew Gooden and Seattle just should have never even got involved because they were all ready one of the worst teams in the NBA and now they just got worse. I personally would have to agree with most of this because it is true now Lebron James in Cleveland has a little more outside shooting and a big man in Ben Wallace to work with and I believe if anyone got better in this trade it was Cleveland and I also believe Seattle Sonics are the ones who just got worse.