Who Will Have The Answer?

Word on the interweb is that the Philadelphia 76ers will be trading Allen Iverson sometime within the next 48 hours, which is leading to all sorts of speculation as to who is going to land him. From what I've read, the Sixers want cap relief in the next two years and want all the offers in by early this afternoon.

I'm too under the weather to link to everything out there so let me leave you with this. Although the Celtics can put together one of the best packages out there, I can't see Philly trading AI within their own division. Personally I wouldn't want to send Philly more than Theo Ratliff, Delonte West, Tony Allen and Sebastian Telfair. Perhaps we could throw in Wally if they send Sam Dalembert back as well. If we give up more than that, I'll be disappointed. AI's price was higher this summer, but it's significantly lower right now.

Dallas is supposedly offering Jerry Stackhouse, Austin Croshere and a pick. Golden State is ponying up Baron Davis and a pick. Sacramento is dangling Mike Bibby and a bunch of garbage. The Lakers, Denver and TWolves are also in hot pursuit. The Sixers already have 15 players under contract, so if they do a 3 or 4 for 1 deal, someone's going to have to be cut. That might gum up the works a bit or perhaps make this a three team deal.

As for me, I'm going to go back to sleep and hope I feel better when I wake up. And if AI is in another uni when I wake up, we'll talk about it then.

Also, the C's play the Sixers on Wednesday, so if something's going down between those two, I doubt a deal would go down before then. Philly's definitely going to want to put off the dreaded AI revenge game, where he's going to drop like 50 on them, as long as they possibly can.