Is Chris Paul or Dwight Howard Better Free-Agent Fit for Houston Rockets?

Fair Dinkum is takin over yo

 

I wouldn't really say CP3 is much of an upgrade over Lin. D12 it is.

 

troll of the year award.

 

Top big man > top pg.

The best center in the league almost always gets a ring, while top pgs do not.

 

Thought about it. Why would LAC agree to this? Even if we made it Lin/Asik to make the numbers work. If we signed Dwight, we're technically out of the running to sign CP3 straight up (essentially). CP3 isn't going to ATL solo, or really any other viable team that could sign him up w/o another superstar going with him (and again, Dwight has already signed here in this hypo). LAC would have no real fear of CP3 leaving them, much less enough of a fear to do a weak SnT w/ Houston (two somewhat redundant players in Lin/Asik).

 

That graphic would cost us $55.4M of the $58.5M cap lol. They'd have to take paycuts for it to even work (though minor ones) because the min. roster capholds would require $3.4M while we only have $3.1M. This is us ONLY having those 5 players, mind you.

I know Morey works magic, but this is a bit impossible. Would at least need to SnT for one of the two players, and this is after we clear some cap space by moving out White and TRob. But if we signed one of the two first, the remaining LAC/LAL would have no reason to want to SnT their star to us as they know we can't get him otherwise...and with one less destination and the other superstar off the table, very little chance D12 or CP3 (whichever is left over) would have enough of an incentive/plausible argument to leave Los Angeles.

 

Don't matter till July .....

 

BILL BELLAMY ‏@BILLBELLAMY 33m
Dwight Howard just told me he rather play for the Sparks before he come back to the Lakers!!!! Lmao!!!!!

 

you do realize that when howard got healthy, after the all-star break that the lakers had one of the top 3 defenses in the league with howard on the floor, right? he also averaged 18/13. plus the lakers had one of the better records in the league too. dude is the absolute best defender in the league, and offensively he fits even better imo. he'd make both lin and harden better b/c he's one of the best pick and roll big men in the league in terms of finishing and catching. cp3 while absolutely terrific also forces harden to be more off the ball (which isn't a bad thing, but not exactly his game). i look at the good games asik was able to have, and see dwight as having those sorta 18+ point games consistently just replacing asik's touches. plus a couple more post ups, and he'd have similar amount of touches as he did in orlando.

 

Disagreed. Lin has much more upside offensively than Asik. Not so clear.

 

I'm from Australia and I don't understand this.

Who are the Sparks?

Dwight says,"He'd rather play for the Sparks than come back to the Lakers!"

What does that mean?

 

No, CP3 is not a significant upgrade to Lin + Harden, but Dwight is to Asik.

 

The Sparks are the LA WNBA team, the female league.

 

So this is a Joke.

Dwight would probably fit right in. Hahaha!

 

I dunno if it's a joke or not, I'm sure he would prefer playing with the Sparks than the Lakers. At least then he'd be on a contender and he wouldn't have to put up with Kobe.

 

of course it's a joke

 

Really? Come on man

 

How come more people want Dwight Howard but in my thread from a few weeks ago the majority wanted Chris Paul?