No way the Lakers take that for Pau. They have no need for a 2 guard. It's either Lowry or bust for Pau.
For pre-draft or draft day trades, I would: 1) Trade Lowry + Patterson + 14th to Portland for 6th, 11th and Jamal Crawford Rationale: Portland needs a PG (and Lowry is great value for money), can do with a PF backup with Hickson likely to bolt for a salary hike (Patterson can give similar production at cheaper price), and would like to dump Jamal Crawford off books. Rockets want draft picks, and can afford to let Lowry go, let Patterson go (D-Mo coming hopefully) and take on Jamal Crawford's contract. 2) Sign-and-trade Dragic (starting ~$8-9m/yr) into Toronto's Barbosa T. Exception ($7.6m), and swap Kevin Martin + Chase Budinger + 16th for Jose Calderon + 10th pick. Rationale: Toronto needs a PG and want to ship out Calderon (without going amnesty), and need a SF that can shoot 3s with accuracy. Kevin Martin and Calderon is effectively an expiring swap with Chase thrown in. If Toronto wants a player like Dragic in the free agency, it makes sense to do a sign and trade so they can ship out Calderon. Rockets want draft picks and no longer needs Kevin Martin. Chase leaves to make room for Marcus Morris. 3) The twist is Portland and Toronto both need an upgrade at PG but Portland wants Dragic and Toronto wants Lowry. But both would have to be satisfied if it's the other way around. It would be Morey Magic to play them, ie let Toronto know it is not sending Lowry to them via trade, and offer the alternative of sign-and-trade for Dragic as outlined. Then turn around and offer Lowry as consolation to Portland for the above deal. 4) Rockets end up with the 6th, 10th and 11th picks, which I would use on Lilliard, Sullinger or Zeller and Terrence Ross. With these 3 picks, I think these players are attainable. 5) We'd buy out Dalembert and resign Camby @ ~$5m/yr and Lee @ ~$6m/yr. And send J Crawford to a team under the salary cap by paying them. If all that is possible, we'd have: PG: Lilliard + Calderon (expiring) SG: Lee + Ross SF: Parsons + Morris PF: Scola + D-Mo C: Camby + Sullinger or Zeller + Greg Smith In effect, we'd be rebuilding and getting younger via the draft. May not be better immediately, but most likely better long-term. I'm sold on Lilliard who can be Brooks/Lowry combined with height, shooting, athleticism, great PnR, and gets to the FTs line. T Ross could be a steal at late lottery. And Sullinger/Zeller - not sure which one is better (long-term), but Morey should know, and helps to solve our C question. Next year, we can let Calderon expire and bring in Llull (naturally), and we'd still have room in 2012-13 year to bring in an impact player as we'd only have ~$45-6m in guaranteed contracts (including Dalembert's buyout). Actually, if we can bring in Deron Williams by amnestying Scola, then we can set-up a wink-wink agreement with Dwight to come in 2013-14 by him taking up Calderon's salary + having a cheap buyout or team option on Camby for 2013-14. In this scenario in 2013-14: PG: Deron Williams + Lilliard SG: Lee + Ross + Newley SF: Parsons + Morris PF: D-Mo + (a power rebounding 4 we get by trading rights to Llull) + Leunen (stretch 4) C: Howard + Sullinger/Zeller + Greg Smith We get to bring in our experienced overseas stashes as 11-15th players
Dalembert + 14 & 16 For Gortat+ 13 With Nash leaving, Phoenix will be in full rebuild mode. They get two picks in the same vicinity they were picking in anyway. They can use dalembert for saving or as a decent stop gap at center. We get a quality starting center on a CHEAP LONG TERM CONTRACT plus we can get the same player we wanted at 14. This is what I would want if we strike out with Howard.
Gasol's game next to Robinson would be nice. He makes up for the shot-blocking and offensive decencies of Robinson and Gasol's better as a Center. He would be the "training-wheels" for that young core. In this case, the whole is better than the sum of its parts. Besides, we save 1.5 mil if Dally is waived and we trim the roster down by getting rid of Scola and Martin. Llull (who may not even come over soon) and the NY pick are the real assests in that trade. Since we're going to try and retain Dragic, Llull's expendable. And since we have 5 and 14 in this scenario with Donatas (who will need some time to adjust) coming over, what's the point of having 4 rookies on the team? The NY pick is expendable as well. McRoberts is just an expiring contract filler so salaries match up. And yes I am a Rocket fan
Pretty sure Phoenix is going to look to sign Aaron Brooks first. As a restricted free agent, Brooks will be much easier for them to keep than it'll be to bring back Dragic.
Why would Dragić accept a sign and trade? If he wants to go to Toronto they can sign him outright. There's no reason to weaken the position of a team he's planing a future with by transferring their assets to Houston. And does he even want to go to Toronto? You have no control over what Dragić does this summer.
my pentium 2 has processed data...if calculations are correct a trade for gortat gives us a 97% chance of getting a sixth seed. What could go wrong!!! (wish we could acquire gortat , but phx is not going to do that trade)
1. Ship Lowry for Deron Williams. 2. Clear cap space, possibly get some good draft placement. 3. Sign Dwight Howard. 4. 5. Profit.
http://moski.enaa.com/Sport/Sportna-scena/Goran-Dragic-bi-bil-rad-prvi-organizator-igre.html "Še posebej sem hvaležen Kevinu McHalu, da mi je dal to priložnost. Predtem niso verjeli, da sem sposoben biti prvi organizator igre. V Phoenixu nisem dobil prave priložnosti. Sunsi so sicer poklicali Radeta in izrazili željo, da pridem nazaj. Do Phoenixa imam nekoliko grenak priokus, glede na vse, kar se je zgodilo. Vendar nikoli ne reci nikoli,'' "I'm especially grateful to Kevin McHale, for giving me that chance (to start). Before that they didn't believe, that I'm capable of being the first point guard. I wasn't given a real chance in Phoenix. But the Suns did call Rade (Filipović - his agent) and expressed their desire to get me back. Because of everything that happened, I've got a bit of a bitter taste towards Phoenix. But never say never." http://www.zurnal24.si/dragic-zelim-biti-prvi-organizator-igre-clanek-156071 Klicali so ga iz Phoenixa V Houstonu je za njim izjemna sezona, ali bo še naprej nosil dres Raket, pa ni znano. »Bilo je lepo, zato bi rad ostal,« priznava, pravi pa, da so se javili tudi iz Phoenixa, kjer bi ga radi nazaj. »V zvezi s tem imam grenak priokus, saj so me pred letom odslovili.« "I've got bitter taste regarding that (his return to Phoenix), because they dismissed me a year ago." He also said that his priority is not money, but finding a good environment and a club, that will ensure him the position of the first point guard. He believes that his value is around 8 mil. He likes Houston and really likes Mchale, but is only returning to Houston as the starting point guard.
If he wants to go is the big question mark, you're correct. But IF he wants to go, then would you not say Kevin Martin + Chase and taking away competition for PG minutes by trading away Calderon helps Toronto more than to sign him outright? Would you want >$17m tied up in two 2nd tier (at best) PGs?
Not really. You're switching Martins expiring contract for Calderons expiring contract. Calderon is redundant, but so is Martin. He'd probably be a 13 mil back up to Derozan. That would tie up 16 mil in two second tier sgs. All while degrading from the 8. pick - that's what you probably thought, they don't have 10. - to the 16. pick, which is a huge difference and Budinger doesn't justify it.
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=7l7ajew Toronto receives Houston's 16th pick Sacramento sends Houston its first round pick.
I believe that the new CBA states that if a team signs their own UFA he cannot be traded before December 15th of the year he was signed.
I am incorrect it is actually The new CBA states that if a team signs their own RFA he cannot be traded before December 15th of the year he was signed. Not sure about signing UFA's.
