Poor Hollinger is a step behind our mad genius of a GM. Deal would almost assuredly be Lowry/Scola and perhaps 2 or 3 of our youngins. No bad contracts would be coming back, and certainly no future picks. No way Lakers trade Bynum in a rental.
Last week: Let's trade all 3 1st rounders for a top 5 pick to get Andre Drummond or trade for Dwight! This week: I can't believe Morey is thinking about trading all 3 1st round picks for Dwight!
Yes, that's what he said. My question to you, is where is he going to "check out" free agency next year if Brooklyn has already encompassed their salary cap dividends. The Lakers? Cannot afford to do so, same applies to Chicago & New York and any team he has his "sights" set on. The more progressive Brooklyn is in their pursuit of building a formidable team THIS off-season, the less leverage Dwight has. Let him roam Free Agency, he'll come right back because he won't find a competent team with cap room, and if he does they're still 20-30 mil short of what we can offer.
Well I thought that 1 of the reasons the Rockets not having to want a guarantee from Howard is to lessen compensatory exchange to the Magic. Well I dont mind giving up assets, im more concerned of taking back contracts especially of Duhon and Big Baby
No matter what, Dwight Howard cannot be helping his trade value going out in the public and saying those things. Orlando management is probably even more pissed at him now.
i would not trade lamb white and d-mo... but everyone else is perfectly fine lol ....i say we trade for him and then trade him to get multiple superstars like bynum or anyone else
We were all prepared to trade all of our picks before the draft, don't see why it's an different after.
Nets have nothing The Magic will trade Dwight to Houston, and lose him for nothing. Either way if he is traded( unless the Lakers offer Bynum). He is coming to Houston, thats if Morey still wants him
"Brooklyn As Howard tries to engineer a trade to Brooklyn, the Nets seem far less interested in him right now. They've been moving away from a Howard scenario ever since they traded a lottery pick to Portland for Gerald Wallace, removing one of their two biggest chips in a potential Howard deal. They still can put together a fairly enticing deal, however. Right now they could use a signed-and-traded Brook Lopez, MarShon Brooks and the same cap flotsam they're offering to Atlanta for Joe Johnson (Anthony Morrow, Jordan Farmar, Jordan Williams, Johan Petro, Darwin Cook, Jamie Feick, Foots Walker and a signed-and-traded Benoit Benjamin), and the idea would be for Orlando to send them Howard and dump as many bad contracts as they can in the process. As with the Houston deal referenced above, Orlando would try to stick the Nets with Davis, Richardson and Duhon in addition to Howard. This is comparable to Houston's offer, but from here I think Houston's has the slight advantage. The Rockets offer two good players on expiring contracts that Orlando could immediately flip for other assets, and four young players against one from the Nets. The one counter from New Jersey is that it offers a legit starting center in Lopez to be the foundation for the Magic, but a Lopez-Anderson frontcourt will give up 200 points per game. Brooklyn also can offer draft picks -- including, ironically, a lottery-protected pick from Houston dating from the Terrence Williams trade -- but the Magic are unlikely to place a huge value on picks likely to be in the 20s. Of course, the real way for the Nets to leverage themselves into a Howard deal is by keeping their cap space open for 2013 and making it seem a fait accompli that Howard is going there anyway. That type of maneuver might scare off "rental" suitors such as Houston and Golden State, or at least give them enough pause to limit their offers. Instead, the Nets seem to be taking that option out of commission entirely. Maybe it's worth it to get a Williams-Johnson-Wallace-Humphries-Lopez lineup; certainly that's an impressive starting five. Nonetheless, I'd have to think Williams, Howard and any three randomly selected humanoids would be more impressive. As always, the Nets have me scratching my head."
Like I said in another thread, I imagine the whole point of him FINALLY going to the media now was to tell the Nets "Hey, I still want to be there... so don't mess it up by trading for Joe Johnson."
Man oh man these Howard talks have to stop...We (meaning the Rockets) have to move on, the guy doesnt want to come here , and there is no reason to sell the soul of the team to have a marquis center for ONE season.
If you are going to take a chance on Howard, give them Lowry, Martin, Patterson, Morris. Don't give away the most recent draft picks, including D-MO.
I'm not interested in big men that can't put up 20+ppg, 10rpg, 5 apg, and 3 bpg, with a 50+% fgp and a 90% ftp, but hey, those are almost as easy to come by as a 7 footer good at shooting free throws so why not ask for the whole bag?
