Reality Check If the Rockets are able to land two superstar free agents (without giving up the superstar they already have in Harden), they will have to give up something extremely valuable. Not just something quite valuable like Asik, but something extremely valuable that any team would want. What do the Rockets have like that? Chandler Parsons with his ridiculously low contract. The easiest way I could see the Rockets getting both CP3 and Howard would be a sign and trade with the Clippers. Howard is signed outright as a free agent. TRob goes somewhere for picks. Asik, Lin and Parsons go to the Clippers. If Morey negotiates really well, maybe he can get the Clippers to take White as part of the deal. The Clippers might ask for one of our better PF prospects however. If that trade goes down, the Rockets will have potentially three of the best players at their positions. They will immediately become one of the three best teams in the league, barring injuries. The Clippers will remain a good playoff team. They will have two major marketing draws in Griffin and Lin to sell tickets and a budding marketing draw with Parsons. Lin will be better with the offense flowing through him. Asik will give them interior defense. They will be a very strong rebounding team. Griffin and Parsons are old friends from their days with traveling high school teams. The locker room vibe should be good. The Clippers will be a lot better off with that trade than if they just let CP3 walk. This trade is the most feasible way I could see the Rockets landing both superstar free agents. I'm not sure that Howard and CP3 really want to leave LA, however.
Ideal scenario IMO....Id rather go this route than go after both cp3 and d12. We'd have to over leverage our assets to even make it happen.... Too much risk IMO.
In before Deckard gets on my ass. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>According to a team source, LAL has not even breached the possibility of trading Dwight to LAC w/ in-house discussions yet</p>— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcten/statuses/346043313125728257">June 15, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>An NBA executive said the Lakers will either, A, sign Dwight Howard, or B, let him walk if he wants and have ample cap space next summer.</p>— Brad Turner (@BA_Turner) <a href="https://twitter.com/BA_Turner/statuses/346040741425991680">June 15, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lakers have fully resisted Clippers overtures on a sign-and-trade for Dwight Howard. "They will never do it," source with knowledge tells Y!</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/346029979479453696">June 15, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>I still can't see the Clippers trading Blake Griffin anywhere, let alone to the Lakers.</p>— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/statuses/346049365489614850">June 15, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>If Dwight Howard sees the Clippers as his best option to stay in LA he has to realize how much 90% of the city would hate him for it.</p>— J.A. Adande (@jadande) <a href="https://twitter.com/jadande/statuses/346065615490019329">June 16, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
more stuff for dickard <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Doc Rivers been informed Clippers won't accept Celtics offer. Rivers prepared to stay in Boston, sources.</p>— Brad Turner (@BA_Turner) <a href="https://twitter.com/BA_Turner/statuses/346043187896414209">June 15, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
here's one that's one hour old. XXXX <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Clippers won't budge on their offer of DeAndre Jordan, one No. 1 pick. Clippers will not give Celtics Eric Bledsoe and another No.1 pick.</p>— Brad Turner (@BA_Turner) <a href="https://twitter.com/BA_Turner/statuses/346056861834964992">June 16, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
More from Woj (22min ago): http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--c...ers--kevin-garnett-to-clippers-201709995.html
finding newer tweets about the same thing in order to argue with posters isn't going to win you any friends
I tried to look up trades involving the Lakers and Clippers in the past because I couldn't remember any. The only thing I could find was from probasketballtransactions.com in 1983 when the clippers traded them the rights to Byron Scott. I think the tweet's prove that the Lakers have no intention of changing that.
Deck has been here for over a decade and is a respected member. You're a noob with a post count that would make DD cringe. Now you're posting old info on purpose to annoy people. Isn't that the definition of a troll?
All that "LA won't S&T Dwight" thing and that "Celtics won't let Doc, KG and Paul go" thing should be taken with a grain of salt like any reports about how a team is unwilling to do something. Teams pretty much always deny they are interested in doing something whether or not it is true. It's typical PR posturing by the Lakers and Celtics. They may be sincere about it, but they may also just be playing hard to get.
I like that idea. It's close to his home and tons of fans there. I want him back to New York but I hate Carmelo Anthony.
While the Clippers had the wistful thought of trying to arrange a sign-and-trade to acquire Dwight Howard for Bledsoe and Blake Griffin, the Lakers have flatly rejected the idea, sources said. "They'll never do it," one source with direct knowledge of the conversations told Yahoo! Sports. So far, the Lakers have rejected every possible sign-and-trade scenario for Howard, sources said. The possibility of trading him within the Staples Center is probably the least palatable scenario of all should they be forced to lose him for nothing in July and finally do agree to a sign-and-trade possibility.
Why wouldn't it qualify as circumvention to be discussing trading a free agent that can't be traded? They would be setting up trades in the future.
