Ariza and Tucker are the ones who have similar salaries for matching. I don't think Harden or Paul would endorse trading Ariza for a guard... or trading Ariza, period. That's the thing -- given Ariza is expiring and due a big payday, he's like a textbook Morey trade candidate, but he can't deal him.
After looking at the cap figures, Bradley is heading to OKC, probably for Arenas, Felton, and a second round pick or maybe the 2019 first round pick to make salaries work. I think the Roberson injury is real, knees don't simply give out like that, and that OKC was going to get Bradley regardless.
In the off season . . . I think Ariza will be good SIGN AND TRADE Fodder I think that is how *ANY* deal with LeBron will play out Lebron + . . uhm . . Says Shumbert gives you Ariza, Anderson and Picks. . . Where Ariza's salary will make up what ever the difference is Rocket River
LEuer is a salary dump. He is dead money. Also, Avery has been underwhelming this year. He’s been extremely inefficient with a high usage. Now, I think a change of scenery and a more catch and shoot role will benefit him on a contender, I just think his value is lower than people expect based on reputation.
Bradley isn't a great fit here unless he is replacing Eric Gordon. Too small really to take Ariza's minutes. He's a perfect fit for OKC though so it's natural that people are making that connection.
I don't see the Rockets having interest here, or better, they probably do on paper (which is understandable), but they know they can't get him. I also think this guy will sign in Phila this summer.
While Bradley is not having a good year, I would still try to make a deal that makes sense if I’m the Rockets. Cannot have enough depth, especially if we end up going against the Warriors. Anyone who can play D and hit the 3 should be considered IMO. Not sure there is a deal to be made, but that is my .02
A depth trade for Bradley would be foolish. The cost would be VERY high for a guy who wouldn't have significant rotation minutes right now.
http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yaq2lv3q If we’re in win now... we can do Ryan Anderson with 2020 1st + 2nd for Leur and Bradley. Then we can trade leur in summer to open up cap.
The Rockets should trade for Avery Bradley; and then say he failed his physical and send him back to Detroit.
I’m not saying i would give up a first or a piece of the rotation unless Anderson may be involved. I don’t think it would be foolish at all if the price is right. If not, then you don’t do it.
Anderson is almost dead weight at this point as well, Anderson for Leuer/Boban would make it much easier for us to dump salary this off season as Boban would become an expiring and would be easy to move, so we'd essentially be swapping Andersons 40 mill owed for Leuers 20 mill owed, that has value, and Bradley is probably worth a couple of good 2nd's even as an expiring. Considering our 2nds are super late(almost worthless), and our 1st would be late I think it would be a fair pay.
As much as he has regressed and we hate on the guy, this just isn’t true. Dead weight is completely different than overpaid. Dead weight are players like parsons, like asik, like deng and like leuer. They are overpaid and just CANNOT perform or be relied upon. Anderson is still a valuable starter on most teams in the league. If he made 12m right now he would likely be considered a net neutral contract or even considered a decent contract. He’s obviously overpaid but not useless. Leuer is useless. He’s overpaid by 9m per and makes only 10m per. Ryan Anderson has been utterly underwhelming this year and absolutely a net negative contract, but he is far from dead weight.
He sucks this year, he sucked last year and he sucked extra hard in the playoffs. If his shot is off which it usually is he might as well be dead weight. He cant pass, dribble, create, defend, rebound or make a play for himself or anybody else. If he can’t be a valuable starter on a shooter friendly Rockets roster I just can’t see him being valuable on most teams in the league. There’s a lot of teams that have equal or better 4’s on their team and some of them have multiples of them. We play him by default cause there’s nobody else. Last year his competition was Dekker and Wiltjer. This year it’s Luc. Sometimes I wonder why do we play small (Ariza/Tucker) at the 4? Is it really cause it causes matchup problems for the opponent or do we do that cause Ryno is a mismatch (not in our favor) when he’s in.
