Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 11:00 am  |  30 responses

Courtney Lee Still Sad About Trade to NJ

You’d be heartbroken too if you had to leave sunny Orlando for Jersey: “According to Dwight Howard, Lee’s good friend on the Magic, the young 6-foot-5 wing still is hurting about being traded from Orlando to the Nets. Howard said he spoke with Lee Wednesday. ‘He’s still a little bit upset about getting traded,’ said Howard,..’He’s hurting. He’s not just upset, he’s hurting,’ Howard said. ‘He found a home in Orlando. He was like my ‘big little brother’ so we were always together. He was sad about it.’”

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  • http://double-technical.blogspot.com Zee!

    It’s a business man!!!!

  • http://www.another48minutes.blogspot.com Gerard Himself

    As a Nets fan I first thought after the trade: well, at least we got Lee. Now, I’m not so sure.

  • http://djsklfl.com Jukai

    Close your eyes and pretend realllly hard you live in NYC

  • solito

    *Sad Violine Music playing*

  • Peter

    As if you can’t live in Manhattan and play for the Nets…its like a 15 minute drive

  • http://slamonline.com Adam Fleischer

    Lee’s already nice and gonna be for quite some time. NJ is lucky that they landed him, especially when you’re thinking about the future. I’d probably be sad leaving Dwight Howard, too, though.

  • http://www.sprint.com/sero dma

    Ryan Anderson is no Courtney Lee, I’ll tell you that much.

  • http://djsklfl.com Jukai

    Peter: 15 minutes plus seventy five in traffic

  • NJ4Life

    I haven’t seen a player this messed up by a trade since Francis got taken away from his bf Mobley.

  • k9kincaid

    last time i checked u get paid to play basketball welcome to nets or suck so we trade u your choice

  • Clipp Show 714

    MAYBE if he made that game winning lay up at the end of game 2 he would still be in Orlando.

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    Man, I feel bad for this kid. Glad he’s honest though. And we all know how cordially and gratuitously the Magic Organization treats its starting players!
    “Rafer Alston, thanks for being our guinea p!g and taking us to the Finals. But now Jameer is healthy, so screw off. Yeah, you too Courtney. We said BEAT IT, rookie. You helped us get to the Finals too? Yeah? Well f*ck you then!”

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  • http://www.alllooksame.com Tarzan Cooper

    he knows where orl is going

  • http://june7thdonald@netzero.com donlaker

    dude i knew van gundy had it in for you courtney,
    after you missed that lay up ,now you get to hear
    you know what i mean /you know what im saying,every time you talk to a new yorker
    and you just bought that nice house by the beach…

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com/ Moose

    His “hurting” has nothing to do with hoops, Howard and Lee used to sneak into Disney Land on the weekends, and Lee’s p!ssed that all he’s got that’s worth sneaking out to in Jersey is Atlantuic City and that’s not even close to the arena.

  • http://www.manutd.com Z

    Most of the Jets/Gians players live in NY, no? + RJ and Vince lived in Manhattan.

  • http://sevendeu2u.wordpress.com/ Seven deuce

    If I had to move to NJ for any reason, I’d be hurting too. At least he can leave there as soon as he’s a free agent. Or he turns into Quintin Richardson.

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    Him and D. Harris seems like a nice backcourt, no? I wonder what’s happening with Alston =\.

  • flash

    yeah alston is the one who should be upset. orlando was his last chance at competing for a ring and now he’s back to zero with a rebuilding jersey squad

  • Anon

    New Jersey is very nice. It has 4 seasons. You can find great skiing and great surfing within 1-3 hrs (the farther, the nicer the snow/surf). It pretends to be liberal, but is much more conservative. Public education ranks high, and many of the country’s top ranked places to live are in North Jersey.

  • http://www.realcavsfans.com Anton

    Maybe Dwight’s rogue elbows won’t bother him no more.

  • http://hibachi20.blogspot.com Blinguo

    Skip actually was happy about being home, or at least said as much when he was first traded over there, to put a silver lining on it. Don’t get Marbur(y)ied!
    -
    Imagine Big Baby if he somehow got on the Magic team too, Dwight’s Big Big BIG little brother? (& like Moose said, he’d probably be asking to go to DisneyWorld like everyday too, Big Baby + Big Mickey ears, pushing kids out the way to grab his own!)

  • Yesse

    Can’t blame him.I would be sad too.

  • http://www.tagged.com/edilvia4sho viaaa

    I feel bad for Lee too

  • http://www.anwilson.blogspot.com rainman10

    yes…the politics and public education are what Lee cares about most.

  • mr bad

    come on, he s getting well paid to play b ball and he wants to complain, go back to school.

  • Jess

    do you blame him? lol I mean from the Magic to the Nets…I feel bad for Courtney

  • cavs fan 20

    da trade was stupid on orlandos part vc is good but he gettin old nd u jus gave away a really good prospect in lee nd a good point guard who cn back up jameer???? really? da trade was stupid

  • J the Drafter

    It’s all about differing mentalities, Cavs fan. Orlando wants to win as soon as possible, and they need a replacement for Hedo, which Carter is capable of being. The Nets, in contrast, want to build themselves into a quality team, so they’ll happily trade aging past-his-prime-Hall of Fame talent for young might even become an All-Star talent. As for Rafer, I think his occasional inconsistency bothered them, so they searched for a replacement. Orlando has Jason Williams now. The Magic also landed Ryan Anderson, who they wanted ahead of Courtney Lee.

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