Kevin Love would be great, but Ricky Rubio would be even better. Not sure why Minnesota refuses to move him.
Bored at work, having fun with the trade machine: Sometime before the draft: Rockets trade: Luis Scola Receive: Minnesota's 2012 first rounder Nuggets trade: Danilo Gallinari Receive: Luis Scola L.A. Clippers trade: Minnesota's 2012 first rounder Receive: Danilo Gallinari Clippers dangled the Minny 1st for Gallinari before the trade dealine. Nuggets declined, but have looked good without Gallinari so far, Scola would fill a hole at PF. Rockets acquire an asset attractive to teams rebuilding or retooling. _______________________________________________ Rockets trade: Brad Miller Receive: Jermaine O'Neal, Minnesota 2013 second rounder Rockets trade Miller, so they don't have to worry about the 500k guarantee in '12. Celtics get the better player. _______________________________________________ On draft night (to make the salaries work it would have to be a five team deal, but I listed them seperatly anyway): Rockets trade: Jordan Hill Receive: Houston's 2012 first rounder Nets trade: Houston's 2012 first rounder Receive: Jordan Hill Nets get a solid young big in Hill. Rockets re-acquire their pick, which gives them the needed flexibility to move other future picks. ______________________________________________ Rockets trade: Kevin Martin, #13, #23, New York's 2012 first rounder Receive: Danny Granger, #7 Jazz trade: Paul Millsap, Gordon Hayward, #7 Receive: Kevin Martin, #13, #23, New York's 2012 first rounder Pacers trade: Danny Granger Receive: Paul Millsap, Gordon Hayward Jazz get fill a hole by acquiring Martin, Pacers get younger, trade Granger, while his value is still decent. Rockets trade Martin for Granger, which enables them to start Courtney Lee. ______________________________________________ Rockets trade: Kyle Lowry, Hasheem Thabeet, #37, Minnesota's 2012 first rounder, Houston's 2013 first rounder, Memphis' 2013 first rounder, Minnesota 2013 second rounder Receive: Chris Paul Rockets get Chris Paul. Hornets get a Deron Williams type of deal. ______________________________________________ Draft Enes Kanter #7 Re-sign Chuck Hayes to a 5y/$21mil deal. ($4.2mil/year) Extend Courtney Lee to a 5y/$26mil deal ($5.2mil/year) Re-sign Dragic to a 3y/$8.5mil deal ($2.8mil/year) Re-negotiate Danny Grangers contract to 6y/$73mil starting in '11/12. ($12.2mil/year) 2011 Roster: Kanter J.O'Neal Patterson Hayes Granger Budinger Lee T.Williams Paul Dragic Fill out the roster with D-League players (non-guaranteed contracts). ______________________________________________ Let's assume the 2012 cap will be at $60mil. Rockets would have $31,372,593 in salaries commited, $28,627,407 left to spend. That makes $14,313,703 each for Chris Paul and Dwight Howard, which is about 100k more than what Dwayne Wade signed for with Miami last summer. 2012 Roster: Howard Kanter Patterson Hayes Granger Budinger Lee T.Williams Paul Dragic
Crazy set of deals, lol But there is one thing i'd like to add: I really don't believe T-Will and Dragic can coexist on the bench. One is a PG the other thinks he is a PG/needs the ball to be effective. It may be wiser to send him in that CP3 deal instead of one of the picks.
Yeah, good point. I thought about that as well, but we can't trade Dragic on draft night. I forgot to add the caphold for our re-acquired 2012 draft pick though, so trading T-Will actually would make a lot of sense, since we'd need to free up some more capspace. If you'd send him to New Orleans the salaries would work with 3 (HOU-NOH-NJ) instead of 5 teams, which would make the whole thing a little more relalitic and I think we'd be fine with a 9 men rotation, with Bud playing both wing postions.
I posted this on the "who do you want to draft?" thread .. I think it makes sense for both teams and from a rebuilding perspective... [rquoter]IMO, If we're going to move up, in a Minny trade, we're going to have to give up Kevin Martin. I mean, we already have two talented and much cheaper SG ready to take his spot in Courtney Lee and Terrence Williams. So it wouldn't be to much of a down grade, with both still developing and getting better. From Minny's perspective, (according to there GM) they're ready to start competing, but still have two gaping whole's to fill at SG and Center. With both position's needing veterans to fill them, given that they're looking to compete. There's going to be plenty of good quality veteran center's in free agency, but no high end SG available. There's also no SG they can take that high in the draft to fill that need. Which is why I think this proposed deal makes sense, both ways.. [rquoter]Timberwolves receive: Kevin Martin SG + Orl 2011 23rd overall pick Rockets receive: 2011 3rd overall + Martell Webster SF + Nikola Pekovic C[/rquoter] We receive the high coveted pick to draft a possible franchise changer (Irving, Jones III, Sullinger, Kanter, etc). While Minny gets a border-line all-star SG in KM, who can come in and be a great third option behind Love and Beasley.[/rquoter] Another positive to this trade would be keeping our own lottery pick. In which case we can use to draft a player like Kemba Walker to upgrade the back-up point position. Because truth be told, I'm not sold on Dragic... the guy seem's fairly average.. nothing special.
Time to blow it up to open up salary for 2012 or beyond. Martin + Scola + Yao (S&T) for→ Gortat + Carter's partialy guranteed expiring contract + draft pick/s Rockets take off $21.8M from their books in 2012. Lowry, Dragic Lee, Carter (expiring) Budinger, T-Will 2Pat, Hill Gortat, Thabeet, Miller (team option)
I don't think the Suns are going to make the same mistake the Rockets made ... a backcourt with Brooks and Martin.
Good question, Worzel gummidge. :grin: I don't know if the Suns will re-sign Brooks, but I assume they will. If you trade Dragic and a 1st rounder for Brooks ... I think they believe in Brooks to run the team when Nash retires.
With the changing nature of the Nba center position, and the emergence of our very own pat pat, i think it would be ideal if we could trade Scola plus possibly one of, or a combination Bud/hill/terrence/picks to OKC for Serge Ibaka + nick collison's contract. Although ibaka would not be the elite post defender that we have in hayes, he would fufill any and every desire we as rocket fans have had for shot-blocking and intereior presence. Although a front-court of perkins and Ibaka is menacing defensively, it has almost zero potency as a offensive weapon, and im sure this will be exposed throught the playoffs. Hopefully for us, the thunder will want scola as the answer.
Nice thinking, but I think OKC isn't willing to trade Ibaka now ... he and Perkins are playing well togheter. BTW, the Magic face a 1st round exit and Dwight Howard will sign with the Rockets! :grin: ...
NOZZIR...Martin and LEE IS A KEEPER and OF COURSE LOWRY..just SIGN DeAndre Jordan..or a Free Agent and hope THABEET comes out really good and suprise everyone that be amazing..and have yao playing 20 mins at least.
Hello ClutchFans. This is my first post. I've got 4-team trade idea, which makes sense for all of them. HOU: send -Scola, Bud, Hill, Miller, T-Will, #38 recieve -Collison, '11 1st rounder(MIN) MIN: send -Love, Webster, Pekovic, Ridnour, '11 1st rounder recieve -Bynum, Harden, Bud, Maynor, #38 LAL: send -Bynum, '12 2nd rounder, '13 1st rounder recieve -Love, T-Will, Miller, Pekovic OKC: send -Harden, Maynor, Collison recieve -Scola, Webster, Ridnour, Hill, '12 2nd rounder(LAL), '13 1st rounder(LAL) Rockets part with Scola and prepare more playing time for Hayes and Patpat. Wolves get a real center and decent two guard. Lakers get future franchise player of post-Kobe era, in exchange for a injury prone big. Thunder add inside scoring and experience. Then Rockets trade Collison and #23 for Kaman of LAC, draft Jonas Valanciunas and Chris Singleton with Minny's 1st rounder and #14, sign Tayshaun Prince for MLE. Re-sign Yao and Hayes. Roster: Kaman/Valanciunas/Yao/Thabeet Hayes/Patpat/Valanciunas Prince/Singleton Martin/Lee Lowry/Dragic
