Random Houston Rockets Trade Ideas - 2017-18

Hawks
In Capela (S&T) and Tyus Jones (filler)
Out Schroder and 1st

Kings
In Anderson & Hawks 1st
Out WCS & Temple

TWolves
In Schroder, Gordon & Rox 1st
Out Butler, Jones & Brooks

Rox
In Butler, WCS, Temple & Brooks
Out Anderson, Gordon, Capela & 1st

 

Chicago
Gordon, Anderson

OKC
---- (I would suspect a pick or European rights held by Houston)

Houston
Carmelo Anthony

Chicago desperately needs shooting, and they can flip Gordon to a playoff team at the deadline. This gets OKC out of luxury tax woes. . . Houston adds Carmelo and opens up a roster space to sign a free agent or one of their undrafted players.

 

I wouldn't give away Gordon just to get Anderson off the books.

 

I hear you. I don't love that either but that's one of the only ways to add Carmelo to the Rockets as a trade (and not a buyout).
I suspect a trade like I proposed is the sort of thing that Carmelo's agent has to be floating with this new move to waive his no trade clause.

Moving Anderson is going to be costly though.

 

According to ESPN trade machine, this works:

Ryan Anderson
Nene

for

DeMarre Carroll
Kenneth Faried

How much sweetener would BKN need in order to accept this awful trade? 1st round pick unprotected? 1st + 2nd?

 

The problem here is that the Nets want to utilize cap space next off season. And Anderson eats into that.

 

Why you gotta come in here and tell it like it is? Can't you just let me pretend we have a way to simultaneously dump RA and improve our team all at once? I mean FFS the Thunder did it with Melo; surely we can do something with RA!

 

...and yet they traded for Mozgov's horrific contract. I don't get it. Granted, they fixed that mistake but got very lucky, IMO. Charlotte should have asked for much more. Bullet dodged.

I still think Sacramento is our most likely trading partner. They're loaded with expiring contracts and nothing to play for. Plus, we've been linked to Shumpert before.

A couple days ago I proposed:

Anderson, Gordon, Nene, 1st rounder for Randolph, Koufos, Shumpert, Hield

I think this is a great way for us to both dump Anderson and continue to evolve and get better. We do the deal to move Anderson, get a younger version of Gordon, upgrade backup C and arm ourselves with multiple expiring contracts that will be valuable at the trade deadline. Shumpert can probably contend for a rotation spot right away given his ability to defend multiple positions. Koufos can be our new backup C.

Sacramento does this for the draft pick, to get the best player in the deal (EG) and to dump dead weight.

 

I feel ya. I am so ready to turn the page on Ryan Anderson.

 

They were asset building and had nothing. Mozgov was the cost of doing business to getting the #2 pick in the draft Dangelo Russell. Then they flipped him for Howard's expiring. Slowly they are building assets and cap space. Great job by Sean Marks.

 

Using your rationale, SAC does it for picks (and wings!) then give me:

HOU out: Ryan Anderson, Nene, Vince Edwards, first rounder, rights to Gentile

SAC out: WCS, Iman Shumpert, Zach Randolph, Ben McClemore

POR out: Aminu, Meyers Leonard, Evan Turner, first rounder, 2nd rounder

HOU in: WCS, Aminu, Meyers Leonard

POR in: Zach Randolph, Iman Shumpert, Nene, Ben McClemore

SAC in: Ryan Anderson, Evan Turner, 2 first rounders, POR 2nd rounder, Vince Edwards, rights to Gentile

Props to @Milos for proposing a version of this first.

CP3/MCW/Melton
Harden/EGo/Ennis
Aminu/Ennis/Clark
PJ/Melo/Qi
Capela/WCS/Meyers

 

I'm just not a fan of Russell and Mozgov's deal is Parsons level bad. You're right, though, the end result has them well positioned. I'm just shocked they we were able to dump Mozgov so easily.

 

Houston: Capela, Anderson, Zhou Qi
Memphis: Gasol, Parsons, J Green

Basically a Capela/Qi for Gasol/Green trade with us trading bad contracts Parsons/Anderson.

Memphis gets younger with this trade and makes Gasol happy and Capela gets the contract he wants.

Rockets have a 4 year window and trying to win as many titles in that window

 

No thanks. Marc Gasol is still good on offense, but he can't play much defense.

 

Why does Portland do that? Just to dump salary? If so... then what? It's not like they're getting any FAs, and it's not like Dame/CJ/Nurk is taking them anywhere.

This would be the first step towards Lillard forcing a trade out of Portland.

 

Cool idea inspired by a realgm post.

Whiteside and Onuaku to Bucks

Capela, Anderson, DJ Wilson, Hou 1st, Bucks 2nd to Heat

Winslow, Bam, Snell, Henson to Rockets


Rotation

Paul
Harden / Gordon
Winslow / Snell
Anthony / Tucker
Adebayo / Henson

Bench: Nene, Ennis, Green, Williams

G-League: Qi, Melton, Hartenstein
2-Way: House, Adel

 

They need to dump Leonard. He is their Ryno but worse because he was a lottery pick. The guy is $11M sitting on bench because they are 2 deep at 4 and 5.

 

Dwade

 

Houston out: Ryan, Zhou, 1st, rights to gentile
Houston in: Bazemore, Dedmon

Outlook: gain 3.5m in salary but acquire 2 rotation pieces. Highly doubt the rockets are going to trade their 1st to dump Ryan. I know that's unpopular opinion, but I think they want as many assets as possible for a hopeful all star trade at the deadline this year with so many stars set to become FAs. None the less of you could get a very good backup in Dedmon and a better replacement at a position of need in Baze I think it's worth spending the 1st.



Atlanta Out: Bazemore, Dedmon
Atlanta in: Ryan, Zhou, 1st, rights to gentile

Outlook: bad contract for bad contract but getting paid for it. The signed Len and Collins seems better fit at the 5 so moving dedmon makes sense. They have no traditional 4 on their roster and adding Ryan doesnt hurt their tank but could actually help Trae learn the NBA by providing that wonderful "spacing". They also double down on the Asian market by getting Zhou. All while acquiring a future asset

 

Dumping Leonard & Turner ($60M combined over next 2 yrs) for expirings saves them $30M (10 + 20) to rid locker room of 2 problems

The cost is 1yr of AFA + 1 future first
Since not taking back any bad deals in return

Not that outlandish considering what the rumored cost would be for us to dump Ryno's remaining $40M

In this scenario, we team up w PORT to meet SAC's price (mult future 1sts) without either team having to give up more than 1 pick each

I agree PORT is going nowhere

Lillard may want out soon anyway
But until he does, this team was still #3 seed

Even w a drop this yr, they still look like fringe #7-8 seed
Why not clear out 2 bad contracts now for a pick that figures to be out of lotto?
Not like NO, MIN, OKC or UTAH have improved much