Dwight update: Not close to a trade with Rockets

Jordan got paid 30 million in his last three seasons, what are you talking bout
Jordan was the highest paid athlete at one time in the early 90's-America in the early 90's MONEY please 7 mil lol making up stuff

 

AMEN!

 

Nm edit Jordan over 14 seasons avg 6.45 mil

 

That's true, I remember him making a big fuss in the media in the 1996 offseason, how he wanted a one-year contract worth about that much for the 96-97 season. And after THAT season ended, he got ANOTHER. (Of course, many GMs will tell you he's worth every penny--and it's hard to argue with that!)

Now, Michael Jordan is arguably the greatest basketball player who ever lived...but man, we forget just how much he loves money.

 

Actually when Jordan starting playing they didn't get paid like they do now.

 

And...... We waived Scola for nothing. And lost a loyal hardworking player

 

Either way Scola had to go..I hated to see him leave but if we are rebuilding then it had to be done

 

So are the Rockets waiting for the Magic to cave in or are the Magic wating for the Rockets to cave in ? ..lol

 

We dumped an old, expensive, declining player that was going to take minutes away from the youngins'. You can give him his praise for his hard work, but don't pretend that move doesn't benefit the team long term.

 

Yup... with earlier reports with the Rockets giving away pretty much every single asset for all of Orlando's garbage was too far fetched. Morey has never made a trade that has screwed this franchie over.

I can see him taking on 2 crap contracts and giving away Martin (has to be included for salary reasons) and either 2 assets and 1-1st round and 1-2nd round, or all the draft picks and 1 asset

 

In all actuality the Rockets don't have anything to lose but Orlando does

 

True enough. But he might be able to lead the rookies if he remains in houston

 

What are the chances Howard is traded to the Rockets next week ?

 

By next Friday, approximately 91-93%.

 

Can we trade Forbes or Toney Douglas yet?

My trade scenario...
TOR 1st Round
MEM 1st Round (I think we have this pick. Not sure)
NYK 2nd Round #1
NYK 2nd Round #2
Kevin Martin
Morris or PPat
Rights to Sergio Llull (if we still have him)

For...

Dwight
Turkoglu

Would that be a fair enough trade? I want to keep our rookies and see how they pan out!

 

If I had to put percentages on it, personally I'd say 75/80% he will be traded to us next week... 20/25% he won't be traded to us next week.

 

All we have to do is beat the Jazz and it's in the bag.

 

Some of both. There will be a compromise reached sooner or later unless some other team swoops in. Key points will be when Lin/Asik are matched and the Rockets actually have the ability to take back more than one small bad contract.

 

I just want to know so I can watch how depressed ESPN would be ...lol

 

Highly depends on this summer league in my opinion.

If our rookies continue to play well like in their first game, not only do we have decreasing incentives to trade for Dwight, but we get increasing leverage over the trade as our rookies are now valued higher.

On the other hand if all our rookies begin to suck and continue to do so, then Orlando has the leverage over us.

From the way things look now, it's great news for us. If our rookies keep this up, Orlando will be the ones caving in. The longer they wait the higher the price of our first round picks.