Rockets involved in trade talk for Dwight Howard or Andrew Bynum

The "NBA is rigged" conversations will re emerge.

 

For those of you who keep saying that Howard would never leave so much money in Houston, i have one word for you. Prokhorov.

 

And explain how will he be able to sign with Brooklyn when they have no cap to sign him?

 

It doesn't matter, they wouldn't be able to sign him as a FA because of cap space. This would require us to trade him to NJ or let him walk to a team that isn't the Nets and don't have a Russian Billionaire.

 

Yes, to not be in Houston....

 

I have two words for you. Salary Cap.

 

your point?

 

Well if Orlando ends up winning the draft lottery next year in addition to this, what a coincidence.

 

First you tell me that Lebron is a SF not a Big Man..

Now you're saying he can play any position??

This why he is The Rick Smith and you are just One Houston dumbass

 

in a spectacular turn of events, the nets trade Derrick coleman and marshon brooks to the magic for Howard. All parties are happy.

(insert stern picture)

=/

 

Peeps cant get it through their heads bro

 

They wont, cuz Stern doesn't own the Magic....punkass Stern

 

he isnt in a rush to trade Dwight he has some time - other teams are far more limited.

The Nets plans vanish the moment anyone offer a contract to Brook and he signs - and I am surprised no team has yet done that - mainly because they probably dont feel he is worth the max and considering all this talk Brook has heard about getting the max in a Howard trade he probably feels he should get that now - so in a way this trade has now artificially drove up the value of Brook.

The moment any other team (Blazers, bobcats) offer Lopez a contract and he signs it the Nets deal instantly vanish - its shaky as it is with Brook its impossible without him.

Also a thing is that the Nets are throwing in provisions to safe guard themselves if Brook suffers another foot injury - if the Bobcats or Blazers dont have those same provisions in he'll sign that contract over NJ.

Right now I dont think Brook cars where he goes - he wants max money and what contract will do him the best.


While he is still unsigned and in Brooklyn's control Hennigan needs to play the Nets against the Rockets and Lakers and vice versa - he is in a bad spot as a new and young GM he has to try to get the best value back for his team. The Shaq left the magic, the McGrady trade got them little in return (though seemingly everyone in that trade flamed out due to injuries and what not) so the Howard trade needs to come back with something substantial they can sell to their fans - whether thats another budding star center in Bynum or good picks and budding potential star players that the Rockets have.


Personally I think Hennigan is doing his due diligence in all of this - it SUCKS for everyone else but unless the owner vetoes him and does the Nets trade (if Brook hasnt signed) as a favor to Dwight or something I think the Magic will be far better off after this trade than in the past when a star left them.

 

How about we give B.Lopez an offer sheet?

 

Dallas! I am not saying it would be his first choice but there will be options for Howard if he REALLY wants to leave Houston.

 

It is time to offer Lopez an offer sheet and completely take the NETS out of the equation. I have had enough of this nonsense.

 

Not possible, no cap room...

So a MLE Offer and Prokhorov would do it...

cmon you're smarter than that

 

Exactly! Some people just don't understand that this isn't NBA 2K whatever. You can't just force trades and signings and override the salary cap.

 

I admit I have been critical of the past 17 years but with what I've seen happen since the NBA draft, I now believe that Morey & Les have seen the light and are actually trying to craft a team the right way. That's why I have taken a wait and see approach as to what the Rockets' final roster will look like before I make a comment.

I was merely responding to your post where you implied that Howard hadn't publicly stated that he wouldn't come to Houston. He did just that. Now as for the Nets scenario, you are absolutely right. They simply cannot sign him without help - especially after Cleveland dropped out of the proposed 3-team deal. Now, Howard wants to go to Brooklyn really really bad. OK, all he had to do was to not opt in and he'd been a UFA and by now be well on his way to hangout with Dwill, JayZ & Beyonce. But he DIDN'T because he's a dumbass. So now he and his agent (agent dumbass), are now trying to game the system in order to get him to Brooklyn somehow. I wish them luck. Meanwhile, Morey is exploiting all of this uncertainty to further advance his rebuilding efforts. He's not playing chess - he's fencing with the other GMs AND he's doing a very nice job so far.

 

I would be down. This would be a straight up evil genius move by Morey. I kind of want him to do it because it would make this story so much crazier.