Gerald Wallace Trade for Jason Thompson — Warriors News

In a move Friday that helped define Brett Brown’s concept of the National Basketball Association “gypsy”, the Sixers flipped the Camden-born, South Jersey-raised, Rider-educated Thompson to the Golden State Warriors before he could play one shift in his hometown market. The idea here, was that the team could get out of paying a few of the money that Jason Thompson is owed over the next two years. The Sixers shipped Thompson to Golden State for veteran forward Gerald Wallace and a draft consideration. Wallace played 32 games for the Celtics last season and had been traded to the Warriors July 9 along with Chris Babb for Lee. The 25th-overall pick in the 2001 draft has finished in the top 10 in steals per game five times in his 14 seasons.

Keith Pompey is reporting that the consideration is the right for the Sixers to swap Miami’s or Oklahoma City’s first-round pick for the Warriors’ 2016 first-round selection. During the 2014-15 National Basketball Association season, though, he average only 8.9 minutes a game, far off from the almost 30 minutes he has averaged for a career.

Thompson spent last year with the Sacramento Kings, and was acquired in early July along with Carl Landry and Nik Stauskas. In 2010, the Alabama product was an National Basketball Association All-Star. The closest he came was this season, when three different coaches called the plays for Sacramento, bringing the team to a. 354 win percentage, giving them only 11 more wins than the lowly Sixers. This is the last year on a four-year, $40 million contract Wallace inked with the Brooklyn Nets in 2012.