Hypothetical scenario: Helping the Clippers land Kevin Durant if it netted the Rockets Blake Griffin

Blake would fit in great. Creative idea!

 

Why would the clippers offload Griffin to us for free? We have zero assets. I get they will want to make space if Durant comes but it doesn't make sense

 

other teams will have better assets to offer...
and if it comes down to a straight salary dump... you'd deal them to an eastern conference team first...
love the idea... just dont see it happenin for us...

 

Many teams would offer better trade packages then the Rockets. Suns, Celtics, Nuggets, Lakers

Basically any team with good players on rookie contracts, all we have is Capela, he's good but he's not netting us anything like Griffin or Jordan.

 

I figured it would go without saying why would Durant go to the Clippers without Blake and Jordan.

Chris Paul will be 32 by the time the playoffs start next year. He is the player they need to move on from if they want a future.

 

Hell no.

 

What assets do we have, Curry "Jordan" Brewer?

 

Of course he's still a top tier PG, but why would anyone choose to play with Paul? What team success has this guy ever brought to either of the franchises he was a corner-stone for? He'll retire with the furthest he'll ever make it in the playoffs is a soul crushing Game 6 loss to the Rockets and a whopping in Game 7.

 

I think it's much more possible they trade DJ and replace him with a cheap shotblocker and I also think this thread is not THAT far fetched.
The far fetched here is that Durant actually chooses the Clippers. If that happens then Houston can certainly help and make a good offer for jordan. At least we make a competitive one.

The total sum must be around 10 million and not many teams can offer good pieces for benches because most really cheap players are rookies that won't help the Clips.

We could offer Beasley, Bev, Capela and Harell. That's almost a whole bench right here.

Celtics could offer Olynyk,Hunter and Smart. Doubtful that Ainge includes Crowder.

Portland could offer Aminu and Plumlee + some cheap scrub which is imo the best offer.

There wouldn't be many options for the Clippers.

 

Rockets have absolutely nothing to trade for an all star like Griffin besides Harden. No one is taking Corey bricky Sewer or Samuel busty Dekker or the two China guys or any combo of our other scrubs for a Griffin. We're a hot mess right now. Thanks Mauri.

 

Great idea and I would love it to come to life but the Rockets have no players anybody would want. We have done a horrible job collecting Assets..........as they say.smh.

This years free agency will separate the boys from the men in the GM world. Who are buyers and who are sellers...The Rockets will be buying.

 

Yes.

DD

 

In this scenario, the Clippers wouldn't want any asset with a salary attached. They'd want future draft picks and Eurostashes. We have some of those. I'm not sure how we compare to the market in terms of the quality of our Euro players and future draft picks. I think Boston just stashed 3 guys from the last draft and have some picks owed to them too. Sixers would also make sense because I think they have a lot of picks coming, and their own pick will be better quality than Houston's own.

 

As has been pointed out, why joine Clippers without Blake or DJ?

While I value Blake over DJ, even moving DJ would be a huge problem. He's their defensive anchor, and FT shooting aside, is EXACTLY what you want in a big these days.

I'm not a cap expert, but I feel like they'd be able to make room by moving Reddick and Pierce. And if they can't do that "for free", they can add a couple of second round draft picks. Reddick is a dead eye sharp shooter and underrated defender, but from a pure roster balance perspective, you'd much much much rather have

CP3, Durant, Blake, DJ
than
CP3, Reddick, Durant, DJ

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/los_angeles_clippers/

Reddick and Pierce make a combined $10.8 million. $78.3 - $10.8 = $67.5 million. With a $95 million cap, that leaves them $27.5 million, which is enough to max KD.

This is the reason why I think the Clippers are possibly the best non-OKC option.

#1 - Reddick/Pierce should be moveable. As a Rockets fan, I'd take both depending on circumstance. Plenty of other teams could be intereted. Reddick is such a great 3 point shooter.

#2 - The Clippers is not coattailing.

#3 - Its LA... even if you think LA sucks, you recognize a lot of other people, including NBA stars rolling in cash, love to live there.

 

Players can live in LA regardless of who they play for.

They do have months of downtime

 

Yeah... there's a difference.

 

Hardworking guy. Heard him and Westbrook were buddies that trained together often by running up the San Pedro sand dunes. I think they just swap Durant and Griffin.