First and foremost I am a fan of T-Mac…however I have always been under the impression that everyone is tradable for the right offer. Teams often hold on to players for various reasons when they should be exploring trade options. Personally I feel that Houston teams rarely make deals when they hold the upper hand (see the Astros). With all of the speculation with what Chicago may be offering for Kobe shouldn’t the Rockets be looking into 90 to 80 cents on the dollars trade with T-Mac? I would welcome the possibility of getting a Ben Wallace, plus the swap of 1st round picks and another legit NBA player i.e. Ben Gordon or Luol Deng for T-Mac. The question is would the Bulls be willing to make that deal? Could the Rockets get more? Some may feel that this not enough…the point is the longer you hold on to a player the more leverage you loose as a team to get a higher return. So my question is what is T-Mac’s value in comparison to Kobe & KG? My opinion is T-Mac is worth more than KG but 10 to 20% less than Kobe. On Mike & Mike ESPN’s Rick Bucker is discussing: 3 key Bull players to MN >>> KG to Lakers >>>> Kobe to Bulls The bottom line is T-Mac is under contract so we have him regardless of what happens. If he stay’s I will be the first to don my T-Mac jersey on opening day. MLRS
TMac to me isn't worth as much as KG or Kobe,but any team that gets him can ship him on to a contender.Tracy's value lies with a team in contention to win it all.For instance in the discussions about Kobe,Tracy plus a couple of 1's might get it done.The Lakers could then turn around and move him for quite a bit to a team on the brink.They would be on the road to rebuilding in a big way.If TMac gets dealt I'd bet it's a 3 way. So in essence,the Lakers would be getting 2 1's and the boatload they finagle out of team 3. Just one scenario mind you.
probably right, but tmac will not be traded for a while. i expect the real rumors to start flying when he reaches the last year of his contract.
until he puts another season of 70+ games, his back will never give him that "high" of a trade value. say the rox wants to trade him, the other team will just say, "what about his back? how can u be so sure?" things like that
tmac's value with dramatically increase when he has a better team around him. hopefully we'll see that this upcoming year.
This is my point exactly...Why wait until the last year of the deal? The bottom line is unless he brings us a championship his value will only decrease. Couple that with the fact that we would loose leverage by waiting until the end of his contract. Hopefully the Rockets are doing their do diligence in seeing what may or may not be available.
unless u know the deal WILL happen (if the other team is 110% interested), u don't explore ANY trade. what if the rumors fly like crazy, tmac sees he's not appreciated, being the prideful guy that he is, he might demand a trade back. then u get a disgruntled player to start a yr. and if u trade him, u get even worst return.
TMac's salary is roughly 30% of our cap amount. I guess the BIG question is: 'is Tmac contributing 30% of the results?'. Could his contribution be exceeded in a trade or not? It has been stated on this board that the Rox can never assemble a winning team with both Tmac and Yao being at the max. That is a log jam that has to be broken then if we want to win.
how about Tmac for Seattles # 2 pick and Rashard Lewis... id do the same trade with Yao... if they threw in another player...
seattle wouldnt trade their #2 pick (durant) for t-mac or yao. it would be a dream come true if they did though. durant is a future superstar and a HOF lock.
that is a mythe the owner wants us to believe because the rockets are in the bottom half of teams in terms of salaries so the owner is just cheap.
oh please...durant carried Texas the ENTIRE season...averaged 25 and 11, won national player of the year as a freshman, and averaged more rebounds and blocks than oden. are you implying that you wouldnt trade t-mac for durant? because i can gaurantee you the rockets would do that in a HEARTBEAT. if only seattle were that dumb...
Two things work against T-Mac's Value: - T-macs back, everyone in the league knows he's about done, as he gets older the back problems are only going to get worse. - His contract is way too much for GM's to gamble on....with T-Mac bad back that's too much money to put into one player. I'd say he's 60 - 70% of what Kobe and Garnett are worth.
On ESPN 2 early in the morning T-Mac's name came up as one of 2 players that could possibly net Kobe from a perspective of being acceptable to the Lakers, and to the team trading with the Lakers, and from the PR point of selling tickets for the Lakers and being a big media guy that the LA press could sell. The only two names that came up were Wade and T-Mac, and Wade of course as was said is unlikely because of Shaq being in Miami. I was kind of surprised when I heard that, but then I realized one thing fans tend to forget is that when the Lakers traded Shaq, they still had Kobe to sell tickets, so in trading Kobe they would have to get a player back that could sell tickets, and although T-Mac may not do that in Houston, in LA he would fill seats. I hadn't really thought of that aspect of the Kobe trade.
