DO NOT LIKE LOVE! I have hated him since he was in the mcdonalds all american game his senior year of hs. I gave him the nickname of "GETSNO" because of how much I dislike him
http://cdn16.castfire.com/audio/303...f7f52067fb2&referer=http://www.grantland.com/ Zach Lowe: "You know that Kevin Love is the name in Houston's mind" via trade or 2015 free agency.
Houston Trade: Asik, Lin, Jones, Beverly, 1st rd Pick Minnesota Trade: Love, Rubio Houston line: Dwight Love Parsons Harden Rubio Minnesota Line: Lin Martin Brewer Pekovic Asik
Love/Aldridge is why I think you risk it with Parsons and pickup his 2014-2015 option. I know that makes him unrestricted in 2015, but if you can get Love/Howard/Harden and find a way to keep Parsons, you're a LONG TERM (ie Spurs) contender.
Love Lin and Asik and Jones and all but this is robbery. D12+Love front court is beyond my imagination. This is more fair(ignore salary): Houston trade: Harden, Asik, Lin, Jones for Love, Rubio + picks
I completely agree. Whatever assurances you can give Chandler, you still have to risk pissing him off by not extending him early for this reason. We can Parsons ANYTHING we want in the summer of 2015. Les has already said he will go over the cap and into the tax to maintain this core. If you are able to sign a guy like Love or LMA outright in 2015 then you take that chance. The other pieces will stay here. Parsons will stay here if we offer him within 5% of the max offer from somewhere else. The highest I could see this being right now is 10-12M per year.
Minny is helping us and they are willingly put themselves in position of mediocrity. Pekovic as PF? It's Twin Towers part deux again