I think he's a great fit next to Jalen. He has elite defense. I'm not saying I would do the trade though. Just saying it would cost us 3 firsts if we wanted to. He's too young and hasn't peaked yet. They wouldn't sell low.
Next season is his age 26 season, not like he’s 22 or something. Good defender, sucks on offense. I wouldn’t consider trading an unprotected rockets pick for him
I think he'd be a great fit, but he's the Spurs best asset and on a great contract so he ain't going to be worth it from a cost perspective.
Rockets should offer up Wall, Gordon, Wood, and Tate for Russ, THT, and 2 future unprotected Lakers 1st rounders. Rockets win because they get 2 future unprotected firsts and rid themselves of Wood, as well as creating the roster space to play all the young guys. Lakers win because they get rid of two bad contracts and get 4 solid role players that when pared with Lebron, AD, and company make them a contender. They probably won't do it though as they'd see it as mortgaging the future but really it's this or Trade LeBron and AD and hit the reset button for them.
They can’t trade 2 unprotected firsts for a bunch of junk (though i would take it in the heartbeat with even 1 pick)
Fine one unprotected and one protected. Or just one unprotected although I think the Rockets might be able to get more than that for their "junk"
I really don’t think you can get an unprotected first for our junk no, though it would be amazing. You never know, stupid teams do stupid stuff (see cavs trade for levert)
If you are trying to win a championship, Wood, Tate, Wall, and Gordon are not junk and certainly worth one unprotected pick that could end up anywhere from being a lottery pick to something in the 20's.
wood has no value to a team trying to win because of his defense, gordon ya but he's so old and such an injury risk
@saleem I'm thinking in lines of Portland if they remain around #6 because they need to find help for Dame. Rookie picked at #6 might take too long to contribute. Houston in: Eric Bledsoe x #6 (1st Rd Pk) x future 1st x future 2nd Rd Pk [ Portland is around $93M before cap holds leading into free agency & Eric Bledsoe is over $19M non-guaranteed ] x Blazers in: Christian Wood x Tate x Eric Gordon *works on Trade Machine ------------------ Now this looks more feasible after the Rockets find out they are pick 1-4 and know they can draft the Wood replacement; but get to shed close to $19M from team payroll with just the Eric Bledsoe contract release and only paying out a partial. Blazers we're able to absorb more salary coming back because they were under the salary cap. Can then go after Mitchell Robinson, Chris Boucher and others in free agency.
I would be more than happy with the 6th and Bledsoe. I don't think Portland would give up more than that. Having cap room for a capable center would be amazing.
How about Christian Wood and Eric Gordon for Eric Bledsoe and the #6 Pick. Then trade the #6 Pick and #17 Pick for the #4 Pick if we get like the 1st of 2nd. Then we can end up with 2 of the Top 4 picks.
Wood / Gordon for Hayward / 13th pick Houston turns two guys not in their future plans into a useful pick who could be, at the cost of an additional year of salary. They could then try and package 13+17 to move up into the top 10. They could also rehab Haywards value a bit and maybe flip him for an additional asset down the line (Westbrook swap maybe?) Charlotte adds two solid rotation players to help them be better today. They already have loads of youth on their, its kind of hard to imagine adding two more young guys for a team looking to win now.
Portland looks to be an interesting and idyllic trade partner .... particularly for the Rockets or teams with players similar to Wood / Gordon who just don't fit the roster anymore but can help win now teams. Portland can literally revamp the roster in one offseason .... Bledsoe & Hart are partially or non-guaranteed until 6/25/22 ... essentially team options. Bledsoe owed $3.9m. They'll be $23m under the cap and can easily acquire Wood into cap space. Ideal in that they send no player back to the Rockets. And they'd have ~$10m in space allowing them to add another piece. They also have three TPE's - $3.2m, $6.5m and $20.8m With the largest TPE they could absorb EG directly without sending out any matching salary - that would generate a $19.5m TPE for the Rockets .... that they probably never use. Again, not sending a player back to the Rockets. After using their TPE's they still have the full MLE (10.264m) & the BAE(4.017m) but would be hard capped. They would spend their $10m in FA first, then two simultaneous trades with the Rockets for Wood into cap space then EG into the TPE for nothing but draft compensation.
Take off the future picks and add our 17th and you might get yourself a deal. Probably still get outbid by Indy or Detroit with either Myles or Grant.
