Crazy. Mason Plumlee doesn't really fit the Nuggets. Maybe there is hope for Brewer Suns:Tucker/1st rd pick to Rockets: Brewer or KJ /2nd pick. Lol. Crazy do what crazy does. Desperate move for Denver. Probably leading towards another move. Hope the Suns do the same.
Now Portland has 3 first round picks. I would think they are in the drivers seat for Okafor. I could picture Okafor w/Festus Eziele next year. Portland may not be waiting for next year. Nurkic/Okafor this season with the outside game of Lilliard & McCullum. They need to move probably Crabbe contract. Any takers?.....it pretty high. Edited later: Trade Checker show Crabbe can't be traded or an injury symbol next to his name. It's actually Evan Turner who is injured I believe.
Here you go vtjsr2: Note Dudley this year by production by position http://www.82games.com/1617/16PHO9.HTM Note Aminu mins. 0% at SF. Now wonder his production is down, since they play him predominantly at PF. He is playing out of position most of the time. I'm guessing Okafor allows Aminu to play SF more often. I won't say anything else on Aminu. http://www.82games.com/1617/16POR10.HTM
Nurkic/Okafor and Lillard/Crabbe is basically an 8th seed imo at best. The Blazers are horrid defensively. Not sure how playing Okafor any meaningful minutes helps that. Also I'd suspect they'd rather move Turner than Crabbe but who knows. They signed Turner to that ridiculous contract anyway. As for the Rockets I think Gallo, Chandler and Ibaka are decent options.
I see Crabbe has to ok any trade (on realgm.com). Reports the Blazers are desperate to move Ezeli by trade deadline. I didn't say Nurkic and Okafor was good....but Nurkic provides a little rim protection that Okafor requires behind him. I'm just saying Portland has old-school thinking. I'm guessing they would have Lilliard & McCollom running around screens all day from Okafor & Nurkic with a little old school post up action from Okafor at times. They wanted D12 for not just defense....they wanted him for some post up action as well.
I have no idea what the Blazers are doing beginning this past offseason. So who knows what they want to do now
I was thinking the same thing. Festus is just $1 mil in the offseason if the Rockets wished to move on from his contract. Give Portland their own 2nd back.
Nobody knows what Portland is doing. 1st they went hard for D Howard. 2nd they signed Evan Turner to an outrageous contract. 3rd they matched an outrageous contract for Crabbe. Many pundits before the season felt the Blazers would trade either Turner or Crabbe. Turner is hurt now for about 4 more weeks. With 3 first round picks; I'm guessing they will use one to move Crabbe contract like the Rockets would use one to move Brewer. Morey would like Crabbe & a 1st, but too many players would transfer to match that contract....unless a 3rd team enters. They could use a first rounder to get Okafor. Blazers were in negotiations for Okafor yesterday. Reported Pels, Blazers among two others. Not sure if Nurkic signing is the Blazers settling for Nurkic over Okafor....or another piece to their puzzle. I just wonder if the Rockets could snag a wing player from Portland. If it is: Nurkic/Okafor/???/McCullom/Lilliard. I'm guessing they would have to use Crabbe at SF since he makes $17 mil. If not Turner? Would it be Aminu?
Ariza and KJ, 2nd for W.Chandler. Brewer,Harrell, 2nd for ibaka. Harden Bev Chandler Ibaka Capella Bench:Gordon, Anderson, Dekker, NeNe
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=jrdtjcx Gallo, Harris for Brewer, KJ, Dekker, and Ennis. We'd probably have to add a 1st as well.
At this point I just don't know what the Rockets can really get unless a team is just dumping something to move on. Capela, Dekker are the blue chips and honestly, unless it's a superstar coming back I'm not trading them. Harrell might be the best non-blue chip asset to offer and let's be real....it's not landing us a player. What else do we have, a late 1st round pick? Doesn't really move the meter much... KJ, Ennis, Brewer, Wiltjer, Onuaku...all filler to any deal. No team is looking at them as key pieces. Maybe a small move but I don't expect much, even though I would like to see some movement.
