Nets offering Houston's draft pick to dump salary.

I totally read this as "the nets are trying to trade TO the rockets a draft pick if Rockets take on a salary from the Nets".

 

Apostrophe fail.

 

It's good value, but by taking such a deal the Rockets -- more or less -- would give up on pursuing Deron and Dwight in free agency themselfs.
Obviously, that's a long shot as is, but if you take on Farmar and Petro you'd have as much as $7.75M less to spend in free agency, which could end up being the deciding factor.

It's risk vs. reward, basically.

I could be wrong, but I see the Rockets going the less safe, but potentially more rewarding route this time.

 

we can offer them T will. I've heard he's an asset with a ton of upside.

 

Damn, Jordan Farmer is actually playing well and i still very young and you get a draft pick on top of that?

 

Its guaranteed to be a mediocre pick at best, so I wouldn't. And i don't think thats Morey's game either.

 

Actually, if we do Bogut trade - it would make a lot of sense to do this as well.

 

NOoo. I would love for us to keep our pick this year by not making the playoffs, next year they can have their pick back. We can work miracles with our second round picks anyway.

 

Any opportunity to get out from under this pick obligation is welcomed.

 

That pick is #15+ right now, so it's not that big a deal to re-acquire, especially considering how well the NYK pick is trending right now. Anyway, it depends on other deals. If we don't get a big trade now, no way we take on salary and kill our offseason free agency money. But, if we do do a big trade now that kills our position anyway, we might have space or TE to send their way.

 

agreed.

 

Should we take a bad contract off NJ as well as Oakafor for extra lottery picks? We already have Knicks.

We could end up with 3-4 lottery picks.

 

To send in a package for Dwight Howard?

 

That is essentially what the Cavs did. They paid for the Clippers pick (Baron Davis' contract) and got the number 1 pick in the draft and Kyrie Irving.

 

What if they amnestied Scola... or even Kevin Martin? Not saying it's ideal, just pointing out there could be a way to do it, and get the draft obligation back.

Not sure I would do it for a #16 or #17 pick, but it's not crazy to think the Rockets miss the playoffs and finish behind Utah, Portland... maybe even Phoenix, depending on what if any other trades are made and what happens with Lowry... in which case you are looking at a potential #10 pick.

If only it was more obvious where they'd finish up.

 

With Lowry out for 2-3 more weeks (possibly longer), I think it is likely that we will miss the playoffs and finish behind Utah, Portland, Minnesota, Phoenix and possibly GS.... the Rockets would then be looking at a couple of lottery picks in the 8-10 range.

 

Give us draft pick, farmar and humphries for Thabeet, Flynn and Hill and you have a deal