BREAKING: Josh Smith traded back to Houston

[$LakerGold]

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Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA 11m11 minutes ago
Clippers are sending cash to Houston with Josh Smith, covering the balance of his salary. Houston only sending draft rights to Clippers.

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA 15m15 minutes ago
Houston will send rights to foreign players and cash to the Clippers for Smith, league source tells Yahoo.

[sportjames23]

Damn, the Clippers are basically paying the Rockets to take this nigguh back.

[$LakerGold]

As part of deal, the Clippers send the Rockets the rights to Serhiy Lischuk, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

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[MP.Trey]

Damn, the Clippers are basically paying the Rockets to take this nigguh back.

[StephHamann]

He carried the Rockets to the WCF last year, i expect them to finish strong as 3-4th seed now.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Doc Rivers is a good coach but there isn't much good to be said about his GM work. Maybe he could do it well if it was his sole focus but the list of guys that have done well as both coach as well as GM is short. Just focus on one job and let someone else do all the scouting and deal-making involved with GM.

[pegasus]

It'd be so funny if these two teams matched up again in the playoffs and Smith tipped the scale in Houston's favor.

[chocolatethunder]

Doc Rivers is a good coach but there isn't much good to be said about his GM work. Maybe he could do it well if it was his sole focus but the list of guys that have done well as both coach as well as GM is short. Just focus on one job and let someone else do all the scouting and deal-making involved with GM.

I don't even think that he's a good coach. He had some great players and a great staff in Boston for sure. Whatever he's done in LA has not been successful. And yes for sure he sucks as a GM.

[jayfan]

He carried the Rockets to the WCF last year, i expect them to finish strong as 3-4th seed now.

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[Real Men Wear Green]

I don't even think that he's a good coach. He had some great players and a great staff in Boston for sure. Whatever he's done in LA has not been successful. And yes for sure he sucks as a GM.

You have to have great players to win. You don't ever see a coach win without them. What separates good coaches from bad is that their team does what it's supposed to do or better. And Doc having a great staff is just a credit to him as a coach. A head coach has to do a good job of picking assistants. Why wouldn't he want a great coach like Thibodeau helping him? If he rejected the opportunity to hire Thibs when he had it that would be a far greater indictment of him as a coach than the wise move of hiring him.

He definitely shouldn't be trying to GM while coaching though.

[Levity]

so Doc wants Smith to shit on blake again this post season?

[Bosnian Sajo]

What a fail this signing was, but to trade him back to the team that knocked you out of the playoffs last year? Doc sucks at his job.

[miggyme1]

I don't even think that he's a good coach. He had some great players and a great staff in Boston for sure. Whatever he's done in LA has not been successful. And yes for sure he sucks as a GM.

cant blame doc for the team choking. they choked two years ago against the thunder and was up 3-1 against houston and choked. i mean lets be honest they werent gonna beat the warriors in the next round but still you gotta handle your business and get to the next round and that falls on the players. doc has had this team for th elast 3 seasons on the cusp of getting to the finals or wcf...team keeps choking

[Funktion]

[SwishSquared]

Was that the final straw or something haha? Doc lost another trade, so no surprise I guess. His backup frontcourt is Lance/Pierce/Aldrich. Don't think that's enough lol.

Clippers badly need to a sign a GM this summer.