No we can’t. Rivers is good because he’s coming off the bench in an injury situation. When Paul is back he will be good as our 4th guard. The more you move him up the worst he will appear
Things are just easy to say, but are unforunately very difficult to put into action. Someone seems smart but dumb. The following players have no market. Melo, Knight, MCW and Chriss
These are available for picks, no one is interested in 2nd round picks. Joe Harris - Nets Justin Holiday - Bulls Iman Shumpert - defender
Doesn’t move the needle and now the Rockets are out of another first round pick, and Gordon. Unless CP3 comes back just as good as last year, there’s no point in throwing away assets. Might as well run it back next year with Knight, Nene and Gordon on expiring deals and all of our picks. Knight’s expiring contract and a first for Covington (or some other great 3&D wing) allows you to keep Gordon.
Knight has a chance to be stretched out. Trade for expiring with 1 pick = 10% Trade for expiring with 2 picks = 30% Stretched out = 40% (it is not a good idea to pay tax for him). Keep him forever =10% other 10%
Melo = expiring MCW = expiring Chriss = expiring Knight = Well, 3 out of 4 ain't bad But don't tell me there's no market for players that will save another team money.
Honestly, Morey is trying to save the luxury tax, and he will NOT save another team money. Let's say Chriss/a Second to hawks a second round pick. Hawks could reject. Chriss was one of the top picks.
Last Summer Blazers , Lilaard and colum wanted melo to join in on them. If Rockets sent them expiring and took on Evan Turners bad contract i wonder if they bite on this trade. Considering blazers might actually could use Melo. For Aminu, which would let Tucker slip back into his Small Foward role, and Turner could be use now off the bench as scoring option. Rockets In : Al-Farouq Aminu and Evan Turner Blazers IN : B.Knight, MCW, Chriss, , and Carmelo Anthony http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yauwg4do I see them doing this considering how Evan Turneer contract is bloated as ****, and Melo , Mcw, and or Knight are offensive oriented. They might be the last team willing to give melo a shot because of how bad they wanted him last summer. If he doesn't fit they just buy him out.
This is the most important thing. If Knight were traded for another bad contract, Morey could not make a good bid on Gordon's next contract. Almost every owner could defeat Tilman on making a bid for Gordon in 2021.
This is the most important thing. If Knight were traded for another bad contract, Morey could not make a good bid on Gordon's next contract. Almost every owner could defeat Tilman on making a bid for Gordon in 2021.
This thinking is just backwards. You don't correct a problem by creating another one. Gordon's contract will be dictated by Gordon's value. We can sign him for anything. The contracts to worry about are the dead weight in Knight, Chriss, MCW, and Melo that are doing nothing for us on the court. They are much easier to deal with than Ryno and we still have the same assets. They don't magically disappear so they have to be turned into something else while we still have a chance. The money has been spent. We need assets that can produce on the court and right now we don't have enough. As you can see, D'Antoni is going to play the best 8. Harden, CP3, Capela, Gordon, Tucker, ?, ?, ? No doubt some of those spots are filled but getting two more quality rotation players using everything we have is the best way to improve this team. Last year we had 6 and a collection of people to fill the other two slots and a serious dead weight. Our problem still remains in converting that lighter weight into something of value. We are not stretching or buying it out. Until the Harden era is over our picks will almost never provide us value on the court so they have to help us now through trade. Capela is the only asset we developed that overcame the Howard debacle. If we would have done anything smarter than trade Howard for Ryno, we would have a championship right now. Morey had an obsession and it and reputation hit from the lost season cost us. The best options for us were George and Butler but we didn't have the assets so when I hear any talk on Beal or Davis its freaking delusional. However, there are plenty of other quality players out there that are available and can help us immensely.
the wolves will not deal covington... especially not the rockets. just like the butler situation they have no interest in helping the rockets. thibs loves him already anyway i doubt he is available unless they are getting a star back
It is about the same. According to some reporters, they have no market, even adding 2nd picks. If Raptors, Bucks, GS or Lakers had such 4 contracts, they would be doomed.
...and yet these are exactly the type of players traded all the time and I was referring to adding 1sts and 2nds. Every team has a bottom of the roster and at least one bad deal except GSW. We don't have 4 bad contracts, we have 1. The others are min filler. Bottom line is that AS USUAL we have to churn the bottom of the roster. I don't see why this is a foreign concept. We do it all the time. Trading Ryno was the impossible part. We have always been able to master the art of the pupu platter. Three of those contracts are expiring and virtually min throw in contracts. Hardly an albatross and can be used to combine to take back salary. Knight is the difficult part. If we can trade unplayable Ryno, we can trade Knight. That's why we saved the assets. It may not get you Butler but it can get you something. Right now in the NBA 6 teams are completely dead and out and others are on the boundary. They won't sit still and LBJ isn't coming. Teams have to begin rebuilding now to get any value out of dying assets. Happens every day.
