Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 10:22 am  |  19 responses

Rafer Gone from NJ; Miami Bound?

The Nets set Alston free yesterday, and it looks as though he’s about to rejoin the Heat: “The Rafer Alston buyout is done and the Nets are finalizing their deal with the Heat to acquire point guard Chris Quinn. Alston, basically, agreed to knock $1 million off the $3.107 million he had remaining on his $5.25 million salary. Once he clears waivers, then he’ll join Miami. The Heat, meanwhile, are sending the fourth-year PG Quinn – picking up the remainder of his $1.05 million salary in this his final contract year, about $640,000 – and a 2012 second rounder to the Nets. The Nets are sending a $1.2 million trade exception plus a protected second rounder in this year’s draft – a pick they’ll never give up unless there is divine intervention in New Jersey. The pick is protected to 50. Anything lower, it stays put.”

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  • tavoris Posted: Jan.6 at 10:26 am
    Mario Chalmers better start competing for his starting spot, or he’s gonna be out of the rotation by the All-Star break

  • LA Huey Posted: Jan.6 at 10:28 am
    This is good for both Skip and Mario

  • Eboy Posted: Jan.6 at 10:32 am
    I love it, although I’ll miss my own Quinn rants throughout the season.

  • JoeMaMa Posted: Jan.6 at 10:43 am
    Carlos Arroyo was recently spotted with anxious, shifty eyes.

  • niQ Posted: Jan.6 at 10:49 am
    Man, it’s great that Skip can still play this season. I don’t care where, as long he can play I’ll be glad.

  • YKnot Posted: Jan.6 at 10:51 am
    Skip out of town!

  • riggs Posted: Jan.6 at 11:04 am
    now it goes from eboy making fun of quinn to me. the torch has been passed gentlemen.

  • Jukai Posted: Jan.6 at 11:30 am
    Another point guard who overdribbles and chucks up threes for Miami? Just what they needed!

  • Boing Dynasty Posted: Jan.6 at 11:39 am
    Easily the most intricate / least impactful trade ever.

  • rog23 Posted: Jan.6 at 11:58 am
    arroyo back to israel???

  • Cheryl Posted: Jan.6 at 12:30 pm
    Arroyo stays, with Skip as backup (unless he proves better at running the offense, which is not out of the question) and Mario steps in for Wade at the 2. Should be an interesting next couple of games.

  • penny Posted: Jan.6 at 1:45 pm
    Come back to Orlando . cmon rafe, u understand we had to give up something for vince carter. On a side note i like how Jason Williams, Rafer Alston ,Carlos Arroyo , Shaq , Penny ,Rony Seikaly all played for the magic or heat at some point. Any other teams have this kind of sharing players relationship ?

  • heartlandG Posted: Jan.6 at 2:06 pm
    Quinn HOOPS on Live 2010 – Who is dude!?

  • Nawlins Realest. Posted: Jan.6 at 2:15 pm
    two and1 point guards in one team.

  • davidR Posted: Jan.6 at 3:42 pm
    are they slowly trying to rebuild that 2003 team?

  • Sporting-Lisbon-Blazers Posted: Jan.6 at 4:16 pm
    lol @ what boing said

  • In-N-Out Lucas Posted: Jan.6 at 5:51 pm
    Is he doing this to get back at the Magic? If so, he could have thought of a better team (i.e Celtics?)

  • SLAM ONLINE | » Hot Topics Posted: Jan.6 at 10:08 pm
    [...] Rafer to the Heat? [...]

  • flash Posted: Jan.7 at 2:05 am
    how about caron butler for micheal beasley.

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