It is not easy for Mike Bibby to leave the Atlanta Hawks. Despite being traded thrice before in his pro career, Bibby is still not use to being dealt the NBA way. The 6-1 former Arizona Wildcat was the 2nd pick over-all in the 1998 draft by the Vancouver Grizzlies, which traded him to the Sacramento Kings in 2001. After seven unforgettable seasons with Sac-Town, where he played the lead point guard role for the then exciting Kings squad, he was traded anew and this time to the Hawks in 2008. Atlanta sent Bibby packing his bags once again to the Washington Wizards, where he played just for two games last month before getting waived. He finally hooked up with the Miami Heat earlier this month as a free-agent. Bibby, who has never won an NBA title, says it is never easy to leave an organization where you have lot of friends but at the same time he is also felt happy that he is coming in to a title-contender team like the Heat, according to SLAM.
“Yeah, I mean you get comfortable, you have friends, you kind of establish yourself in the city and stuff like that. It hurts but I’ve been traded before. When I got traded from Sacramento it was almost seven years…I have a lot of good friends that’s in the organization, on the team still, around Atlanta so you’re definitely gonna miss that.
“This is a business. They felt that they needed to change the point guard position and that’s what they did. Somebody else’s trash, somebody else’s treasure. So I’m just happy to be where I’m at, still playing and that’s all I could say.”
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