Pistons and Kwame Brown?

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Kwame Brown looks huge compared to Jermaine O’Neal in this picture

Just when you thought it could not get any crazier, Joe Dumars and the Detroit Pistons signed Kwame Brown. Yeah, that Kwame Brown.

Kwame was a 1st round draft pick by Michael Jordan and the Washington Wizards. In fact he was the first pick of the draft.

His career has really been hopeless, especially after being the first High School player ever drafted 1st.

Your intrepid author had to do a little research to figure out why Joe D would go after Kwame Brown and the result is a little surprising.

When Lakers center Chris Mihm went down with a season-ending ankle injury on March 12, 2006, Brown took over the starting center position. During his stint as a center, he raised his averages from 6.1 points and 6.3 rebounds to 12.3 points and 9.1 rebounds and started every game for the Lakers in the playoffs. Surprisingly, Kwame Brown became a central part of the LA Lakers seven game series with the Phoenix Suns. Although they would end up losing the series, it had appeared that Kwame Brown’s potential was beginning to show. The surprising consistency Brown showed while playing center prompted Phil Jackson to make Brown the starting center role in the 2006-2007 season. Brown was injured at the beginning of the season and Mihm was also out with injury for the whole season, so the starting job at center was given to the young Andrew Bynum. After playing the majority of the minutes at center despite the bench role, he was given the starting job in early December. Brown again became injured in the 2007-08 season which allowed Bynum to start again at the center position where he has now flourished.

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So here was the deal.

A team source confirmed the deal is for two years at $4 million per season. He made nearly $9.1 million last season, the final year of a three-year deal.
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Can Joe D do it again like he did with Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton and seemingly take a drifting player’s career and turbo charge it?

Trust in Joe D.

The best comment on this issue was “What, Darko wasn’t available?” (by DetroitDave)

The Pistons are still dogged by the Darko deal, but what GM would not have chosen Darko. Athletic 7 footers are hard to come by and Darko had all the markings of a 10 year starting center. To Darko’s credit, he is still in the league.

Of course, so is Kwame, for that matter.

As always, any NBA Basketball related comments are welcome.

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