Nets make a brilliant trade!!

In case you can't tell by the heading of this post I'm a big fan of the trade the New Jersey Nets made in acquiring Deron Williams.  They set the tone for this franchise for the years to come.  In today's NBA, the only way you can get a superstar to sign with you is if you already have a superstar to pair them with, or they are signing together.  New Jersey was not going to be able to convince two superstar free agents to sign with them in the same off season, and as I just said, without having one, they will never get the other.  This forced them to make a trade for a superstar.  After the Carmelo deal fell through, they stuck with it, and got a superstar that they can use in the next off-season to market to other free agents.  All of a sudden the New Jersey Nets are formidable players in the new age NBA.
We know that they have a billionaire owner from Russia, that probably sees this team as another one of his toys, and who isn't afraid to spend money.  I've read a few articles about basketball in Russia.  If you're a superstar, especially in women's basketball, you get treated like one.  They don't draw big crowds, but all the teams are owned by billionaires, and it's more of a bragging rights ordeal than about making money.  But this isn't Russia, and just because you have the money to spend, doesn't mean you can convince someone to take it.  I don't care how much money you have.  If your team is a continuous cellar dweller and the doormat of the league, you can't get people to sign with you. 
Now they pull off a blockbuster trade, and land that first superstar.  They no longer had to convince the first one to sign there, they just had to sweeten the pot enough to his current team.  It's simply a brilliant move.  Now they have a chance to get that second superstar to pair with him.  Is it a big gamble, and could end up quite costly?  Absolutely!  But the Nets are just a toy right?  A hobby, that allows him to brag to his other billionaire friends in Russia.  He said it himself, it's just money, and he has plenty of it.  Why not take the gamble, you already knew you were going to lose going down the path you were currently on.  So Bravo New Jersey.  I look forward to your future moves.

Thanks for reading,
Dustin Dominiak