Obviously the Wolves won't give up KG so cheap. When they make it known he's on the open market, teams will line up at their door and they will be mobbed with great offers. I think KG is doing to Minny what Vince Carter did to Toronto. After he is traded, the old KG will come back. He is forcing them to let him go but he won't go completely in the tank on them like VC. The Pacers, with Jermaine O'Neal plus (name your players), will be able to make a compelling offer for KG.
The Bulls could/should make the best offer. They can give young talent (Gordon, Deng, etc), very high draft picks (they own the Knicks next two picks), and tons of cap room (expiring contract of Thomas now or actual cap room in the summer) and still field a very competitive team. That NY offer is horrible. I guess I can understand that Minny might want to do Garnett a favor and ship him to his destination of choice, but they aren't going to do it for 5 cents on the dollar.
Only if you consider the summer of 2009 soon. I have a hard time buying this, outside of Thomas proposing it to McHale. This is a business, first and foremost, and if the Wolves move KG they will lose the vast majority of their ticketholders. This is not a franchise that can weather several cold winters of rebuilding. The Ricky Davis move tells you their real thought process: build a better cast around Garnett. Even if Garnett wanted out, they would wait until the summer and take painstaking thought into who they would move him for. If Donnie Walsh needed two months to move Artest in their situation, you can expect that the Wolves won't just quickly toss Garnett aside at the first opportunity. Evan
The only problem with this logic is that a guy like Garnett doesn't get traded just anywhere. He'll tell the team where he would be ok with being traded, and if they trade him some place he doesn't want to go, every player in the league would be offended. When a player carries a franchise for 10 years, he's due some courtesy and respect by that franchise. If Garnett told them New York is on the short list of places he wouldn't object to being traded to, then this offer sounds a whole lot more realistic.
Sounds more like the website is using the website to drive up the website's value, but your theory is probably better
Minnesota is an enigma they are 4-9 since trading for Ricky Davis, I was sure they were going to turn around their season with Davis, Banks and Blount but I think they need more time to gel. If Mchale doesn't see some improvement by the end of the season, nobody should be a sacred cow including KG, McHale should consider blowing up the team and dumping KGs monstrous contract on someone.
Speaking of mchale - he's a hometown guy but hasn't he come close to wearing out his welcome yet? The Joe Smith fiasco coupled with the treading water Twolves the last few seasons have got to put him on the endangered species list.
I don't know. I think he still has some time to get in on the make Isaiah look stupid sweepstakes. That could save his job.
what about if it was Frye, Nate, Lee, Ariza and a couple of future first rounders.... may not be great for the twolves but better than just frye... as someone else mentioned if i was the twolves and Garnett does want out then chicago, it's young players and multiple picks is appealing, however for the Bulls it does kill there cap space, also they do have Tim Thomas' expiring contract to send to the Twolves along with Gordon and Deng and some first rounders
Well now that the Knicks dealt Ariza and Penny instead of Mo Taylor and JCraw for Francis, it crosses out the rumored KG deal.
