Rockets not interested in Tate-Grant Williams trade

fwiw: Iko also contradicts cyberX is that piece

• If Gordon isn’t traded by Thursday’s deadline, there’s no belief he would approach ownership in hopes of a buyout, a source close to Gordon said which was confirmed by a team source.
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edit: already posted in the cyberx thread

 

Tate is on a team friendly deal, a good individual and versatile defender, is unselfish and moves the ball on offense, can get a bucket in the paint against smaller defenders, is a ‘vet’ who can fit seamlessly into a rebuilt roster next season.

We think his value is lower because the team is atrocious but an expiring and late first is probably not fair value for Tate.

 

Yeah, I’m not sure I’ve seen the worst team in the league (3 years now mind you) cling to their guys like Rafael Stone.

“We can’t trade Gordon. He’s such an important voice and leader in the locker room.”
“We can’t trade Tate. He’s such an important piece.”
“We can’t trade Martin. He’s such an important piece.”
“We can’t cut Nix. We see him as a lottery talent.”
“We can’t trade Christopher. He’s a young, upcoming talent.”
“We can’t trade Boban. He’s an important, fan favorite.”

Can’t do this, can’t do that.
They’re all too important to the worst team in the league.

 

****ing Stone and his pearl clutching is going to put us back to the stone age.

DD

 

Too many folks take every rumor and statement at face value.

 

Question is do you want to put your cap space towards him or someone else - because he's going to want to get paid this summer.

 

the fascination with scrub/mediocre players is a weird CF's fetish

 

I miss morey...stone doesnt do anything but give us word salads, waits too long on trades, and regression on the court

 

Tate's salary is not there. They could do KPJ the poison pill contract for him straight up. Always looking to make the team better.

 

Franchise players

 

Yes it is....try it on the Trade machine it works.

https://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker/saved_trade/7663064

Congratulations on a successful trade
Due to Houston being over the cap and having a post-trade Team Salary under the Tax Threshold and trading out less than $19.6M in salaries, the 50% trade rule is invoked. Houston could not receive more than 150% plus $100,000 or no more than $5,000,000 in additional salaries (whichever is lesser) of the salary given out for the trade to be accepted, which did happen here.

Due to Orlando being under the cap and choosing to invoke the Cap Room rule, Orlando could not go over the cap by more than $100,000 of post-trade Team Salary, which did happen here.

This trade satisfies the provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement

Trading our best Combo guard does not make the team better....unless you get a star back.....nice try though.

DD

 

apparently focusing on role players who are looking to get paid that do nothing for the actual future of the team is the preference

hey lets go do another daniel theis mistake

 

Stone sees Tate as Lebron apparently. Wtf is wrong with these people in our front office?

 

lol. and then once we fill the roster with those guys we won't go near the lux tax if we get into contention.

 

I doubt Boston is that interested in Tate.

 

I'm going to try to be positive ---

Maybe Stone realizes you should never accept the first offer, so he's playing poker with Boston.
They have now tipped their hand and shown interest in an asset, and they are a top contender.

Maybe he's doing more than just sitting on his hands?

I don't know. I'm trying here.

 

I don’t see this reported on the Celtics wire…. Unless something didn’t load up correctly on my phone.

https://celticswire.usatoday.com/lists/nba-boston-celtics-grant-calls/

 

But your trying to make the team better right?