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Trade Rumor with Utah

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by MLC1MGC2ALC3, Sep 30, 2003.

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  1. MLC1MGC2ALC3

    MLC1MGC2ALC3 Member

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    A sport radio station (1280) in Utah is reporting Amaechi is on the move to Houston. No info on the houston players involved in the Rumor.If this is the case how about this TRADE:

    Houston trades: PG Moochie Norris (4.3 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 2.4 apg in 16.8 minutes)
    PF Eddie Griffin (8.6 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.1 apg in 24.5 minutes)
    SF Bostjan Nachbar (2.1 ppg, 0.8 rpg, 0.2 apg in 5.5 minutes)
    Houston receives: SF Matt Harpring (17.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 1.7 apg in 32.8 minutes)
    C John Amaechi (2.0 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 0.4 apg in 9.5 minutes)
    Change in team outlook: +4.6 ppg, -0.6 rpg, and -1.6 apg.

    Utah trades: SF Matt Harpring (17.6 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 1.7 apg in 32.8 minutes)
    C John Amaechi (2.0 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 0.4 apg in 9.5 minutes)
    Utah receives: PG Moochie Norris (4.3 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 2.4 apg in 82 games)
    PF Eddie Griffin (8.6 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.1 apg in 77 games)
    SF Bostjan Nachbar (2.1 ppg, 0.8 rpg, 0.2 apg in 14 games)
    Change in team outlook: -4.6 ppg, +0.6 rpg, and +1.6 apg.

    TRADE ACCEPTED


    Move Cato to the PF to back up MoT.

    Starting Line-Up:

    Ming
    Mo
    Harpring
    Cat
    Steve
     
    #1 MLC1MGC2ALC3, Sep 30, 2003
  2. HeyDude

    HeyDude Contributing Member

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    Now how do u get from Amaechi to Matt Harpring? So Utah is just gonna package their best player averaging 18 a game with a player who is averaging 2 ppg???:eek:
     
    #2 HeyDude, Sep 30, 2003
  3. rothdaniel

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    What does Amechi get us unless we are also about to trade Cato?

    I'd rather have Cato unless he's being packaged in a deal to get us a big time 3 or 4
     
    #3 rothdaniel, Sep 30, 2003
  4. New Jack

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    Trade will probably be a minor one. Probably Amechi for Rice. Rockets shed some salary to ensure that they won't pay luxury taxes and Utah gets an expiring contract so they can meet minimum salary required.
     
    #4 New Jack, Sep 30, 2003
  5. aldenix

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    Good as a rumor! :D
     
    #5 aldenix, Sep 30, 2003
  6. ArtV

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    Man I hope not. Amechi is terrible. I'd rather keep anyone we have on the team than take him. Now if they want to talk Amechi + 1st round picks...
     
    #6 ArtV, Sep 30, 2003
  7. A-Train

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    Moochie isn't much of an upgrade over Arroyo and Lopez, and Griffin is almost a xerox of Clark. Utah wouldn't accept anything less than Cuttino for Harpring...
     
    #7 A-Train, Sep 30, 2003
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    Latest news out of Utah is Amechi for Rice and pick.

    We will see what happens. The station is fairly reliable about information.
     
    #8 nanker phelge, Sep 30, 2003
  9. B-ball freak

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    If that happens I will be pissed. I was hoping to get something of value for Rice. I can't believe that we'd have to package a pick with Rice to get some useless malcontent who is underneath Greg freakin' Ostertag on the depth chart.
     
    #9 B-ball freak, Sep 30, 2003
  10. verse

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    reliable or not, that's a fairly f*cked up trade. no way is amaechi worth a pick + an expiring contract. no way.
     
    #10 verse, Sep 30, 2003
  11. Deckard

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    No kidding. This has to be some radio sports-talk host's fantasy, assuming it's really from the radio.
     
    #11 Deckard, Sep 30, 2003
  12. verse

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    plus, amaechi signed a 4 year, $10 million contract. rice makes approx. 9 million next year. those figures aren't even in the same ballpark of each other. utah would have to throw in someone else ... like harpring, whose deal was 4 year, $18.5 million. then again, that would be larceny for the rockets...unless we threw in a first rounder.

    meech & harpring

    for

    rice & a 1st rounder


    that might be pallatable for both teams.

    utah gets out of harpring's long term deal (through '07), completely rebuilds starting next summer when rice's contract comes off the books, and would have (at least) 2 first rounders next year.

    houston gets their small forward.

    nah, we'd still be sodomizing utah.... but if they're that stupid, go for it.
     
    #12 verse, Sep 30, 2003
  13. MONON

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    If Utah were trading Amechi & Harpring, I don't think a Utah radio station would be all over Amechi's involvement in the trade. I also don't like Amechi for Rice because we need Rice's expiring contract value this coming summer(I can't believe we just finished a long summer of relative inactivity & I'm already talking about what we need next summer:eek: ) more than we need Amechi now.
     
    #13 MONON, Sep 30, 2003
  14. CriscoKidd

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    you forget Utah is way under the cap verse. They can absorb Rice's contract easy.

    The only way this trade makes sense at all is if the rocks are shopping Cato or if other players are involved.
     
    #14 CriscoKidd, Sep 30, 2003
  15. A-Train

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    The Rockets can't trade next year's first rounder...Stepian Rule...
     
    #15 A-Train, Sep 30, 2003
  16. New Jack

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    Utah is under the salary cap so they could take Rice's 9 million back and trade away Amechi's 2.5 million. I'm not sure, but if a team trades away more salary than it receives doesn't that team get a trade exception of the difference?
     
    #16 New Jack, Sep 30, 2003
  17. CriscoKidd

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    The rox can trade their 1st rounder now. They couldn't have before this past draft.

    Not that they would in this deal anyway.
     
    #17 CriscoKidd, Sep 30, 2003
  18. verse

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    true.
     
    #18 verse, Sep 30, 2003
  19. Rockets34Legend

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    Great.....another one of the "trades".

    I would only wait until ESPN, the AP, CNN, Houston Chronicle, and Clutch to see if a trade went down before I fall for these "trades".
     
    #19 Rockets34Legend, Sep 30, 2003
  20. New Jack

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    Is NBA.com a good enough source?

     
    #20 New Jack, Sep 30, 2003
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