[Stein] Houston hasn't stopped trying to move Ty Lawson

I do not see them waving TY.

 

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Bev + our recently acquired first for Teague. Deal?

 

You think Bev + Dmo + top 8 protected 1st is worth only Anthony + Teague?!

 

that sounds like ty's people.

 

Get it done Morey

 

Um, I guess that is one way of looking at it but Bev + DMO for Anthony and Teague would be more appropriate way of looking at it. Not sure if Teague is a true All Star caliber PG but if he is it would be intriguing. He is coming on strong lately when given minutes.

 

This caught me off guard.

The belief is Ty Lawson has always wanted to stay with the Rockets?

Started to give up on him thinking he already had one foot out the door.

Good to hear he wants to remain a Rocket.

We the fans would like to see how much he wants to be here.

 

Lawson can still be traded following the season and if he is released before 6-30, his 16-17 salary is erased because it is still non-guaranteed. Morey can POSSIBLY exploit this. So I seriously doubt Lawson is released.

On the contrary I can see us starting Lawson from here on out and giving him the basketball to up his trade and free agent value to another team.

 

We aren't going to showcase Lawson, because it can in no way help us. Now, we will let him try to play his way back into the lineup. But, there is no way he can up his value to match his salary, short of being a big player in another spectacular playoff run (at least one upset). And if he can't help us do that, no one will trade for him, because they will cut him just like we do.

No one will trade for this salary, just like they didn't last summer. And we won't take any salary back vs just releasing him.

This year is the exact definition of why Morey got the Team Option, so we can release him in this exact scenario.

You aren't thinking this through, because you like to dream up scenarios of secret strategies to Showcase players to meet your outlandish stories.

 

So you are convinced we're not taking.


I'm not.