Jordan’s Judgment Remains Questionable

Here’s a quick tutorial on Bobcats’ Gerald Wallace: He’s athletic as anyone in the league, plays hard, regularly puts his body at risk, racks up blocks and steals in a way that delights stat geeks, and every year gets more convincingly guard-like. He even took a smaller-than-market-value contract to stay in Charlotte, which I guess is kind of near his Alabama hometown. Put him at his natural three, don’t expect him to sink too many jumpers, and he’s a force to be reckoned with.↵
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↵So naturally, those resurgent Bobcats wants to trade him. From Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski:↵↵⇥As for the Bobcats roster, Larry Brown talked Michael Jordan out of trading forward Gerald Wallace over the summer, but that hasn’t stopped him from shopping him in the preseason, sources say. Charlotte was hoping to showcase Adam Morrison enough in the preseason to find a taker for him.↵↵To his credit, it’s MJ, not Brown, who sees Wallace as expendable. Maybe someone should tell him that Wallace is the closest the team has to a franchise player, or that the Cats were actually a force to be reckoned with last season when GW and Jason Richardson were both healthy. Or that the roster’s got a lot of frontcourt talent to sort through. I can only hope that the Morrison tid-bit is unrelated, and simply restates that Charlotte would like to be rid of the shaggy non-entity. If Jordan wants to trade Wallace just to “showcase” Morrison, then I can safely say that I don’t understand one bit how basketball works.↵
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The irony here is that observers had figured it would be Brown who would sour on Wallace, and rob us of seeing him truly unleashed. Who knows if he’s realized that Multiplicity is like a slightly updated take on The Right Way, has blindly deemed Wallace “one of my players,” or is for once exercising some common sense; it’s still a slightly encouraging, if disturbing, detail. Maybe Jordan knows something we don’t, and Wallace really is damaged goods after his concussion late last season. But hello ... what better way to telegraph that and torpedo his stock than put the guy out there for the highest (lowest) bidder?↵
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↵I’d been aniticipating a season where we shouted for Brown to FREE GERALD from Brown’s tyranny. Maybe, though, MJ’s out to make that happen sooner than we thought.↵