{"id":7159,"date":"2008-11-03T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/trade\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:30:07","slug":"trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitbadboys.com\/archives\/2008-11-03\/its-official-allen-iverson-is-a-piston\/\">Allen Iverson&#8217;s<\/a> a Piston for the season. Huh.<\/p>\n<p>How about that? And Detroit plays Larry Brown&#8217;s Bobcats tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether this puts Detroit in a position to re-take Boston as the East&#8217;s elite team.  Maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;ll give the Pistons some new kick, new spark. But it also gives them a encouraging degree of free agency flexibility next summer if the Iverson-for-Billups\/McDyess trade doesn&#8217;t pay off in the short term. At the very least, it&#8217;s a reason to pay closer attention to the Pistons at a time of year when the Lions are no longer watchable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>Allen Iverson&#8217;s a Piston for the season. Huh. How about that? And Detroit plays Larry Brown&#8217;s Bobcats tonight. 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