A bunch of Houston ideas, very interesting big name possibilities Bill Simmons: NBA trades that should happen
From article: 1. Fake Trade No. 2 (three-way): Tracy McGrady's EC to the Knicks; Randolph, Eddy Curry and Cuttino Mobley's EC to Houston; Gallinari to the Warriors. New York wipes Curry off the books. Houston takes a $10 million hit next year for a chance to hit superstar pay dirt with Randolph. Golden State gets something for Randolph before he inadvertently sabotages his trade value for good by crying during all five games of a road trip. And Gallinari realizes his destiny as a NellieBaller. Everyone wins. 2. VP's Verdict: Bosh doesn't have nearly as much trade value as Chris Paul because he's obviously fleeing in six months. Still, they should be using him to retool and dump the Marcus Banks/Reggie Evans ECs ($9.8 million owed in 2011). A trade like Bosh, Reggie Evans and Marcus Banks to Houston for T-Mac, Luis Scola, a 2010 No. 1 pick and $3 million makes a little sense, but Colangelo would never do it. He'd be better off keeping Bosh and making believe he might stay. One scenario DOES make sense though … 3. Mitigating Factor No. 2: They can't use West to solve their tax issues because Paul would immediately demand out. For instance, let's say Houston offered them Shane Battier, $3 million and the Brian Cook/Chuck Hayes ECs for West, Peterson and Ike Diogu's EC. The Hornets would save $3.2 million in salary, $3.2 million in tax money, then earn another $3 million from the extra cash this season. Next season, they'd save another $7 million in salary and $5-7 million in tax money. On top of that, they'd be eligible for tax benefits as an under-the-tax team. Adding everything up, that trade saves them more than $22 million. But what's the collateral damage? Chris Paul says, "Get me out of here." So they couldn't go there unless they were ready to move Paul, as well. 4.Fake Trade 8a: Houston trades Aaron Brooks (expires 2011) with T-Mac, Scola and Brian Cook (all expire 2010) for Chris Paul and the Peja-Songaila-Posey cap-killing trio. Considering Houston's deep pockets, they'd have to do it -- how else can they acquire a top-10 player? And New Orleans would fall under the tax (saving them about $16-17 million this year, plus another $25-30 million next year) and replace a decent chunk of Paul's production with a Brooks/Darren Collison combo.
the part about the empty seats, its because they count season ticket holders, most of the lower seats are season tickets, we all know this from the rockets pathetic corporate crowd who all leave early and arrive late, if at all
The Randolph one seems doable. Scola and the 2010 first round pick for Bosh? Is Simmons dreaming or it's actually Morey's idea? :grin: I would gut the team for CP3 but NOLA would never trade him unless CP3 himself wants out.
Ever since Simmons has touted the McGrady/CP3 trade, I've been salivating ... hope it happens. I love Brooks, Scola and actually hope TMac turns it around ... but, to get a top 10 player like Paul, who is that young, you HAVE to do it. Houston is very well positioned to do well in trading this winter ... we should see some exciting changes. I'm not sure that Houston would trade Battier and Hayes, to get West, though. But, even though Okafor is overpaid, I'd like to see him come in the deal.
I don't understand this, why people want Bosh so bad on Houston. We have an AMAZING PF tandem, really PF is the least of our need to upgrade positions. I'd much rather have a 2 guard (one that can shoot/take over games... maybe like Hmm Tmac of 2005? ), or a really good PG (aka Paul), but thats just my opinion.
All these trade Ideas are weak. We need a Closer not another superstar. A legitmate star closer. Why do you think the Magic went out and got Vince Carter. They needed a closer. He's not the superstar he once was. But he's a legitimate fist tier closer. If T-Mac can prove he's still capable of that job. Then there is no need to let him go. Are team never really needed Artest. What we needed was for are young guys to develop and get more athletic players around T-mac and Yao. We've done that and more now all we need Yao and the MAc to be healthy. With the team we have now at full health are close too . We can win a few championships here in the next years.
It doesnt matter how good Scola/Landry is because Bosh/Landry and Bosh/Scola are both way better. A 2 guard isnt available
So would I. I absolutely love Luis,and like Aaron too,but I would be willing to add our upcoming 1st round pick and McGrady to get Paul with Posey or Peja. Peja is making an unexpected comeback which could be a bonus. Don't see NO doing it,but it would be great for us.
The PF's we currently have are all better than West. From the Rockets perspective you don't even do Bosh since he's a free agent and we're trading to acquire a guy at a position we already have a strength at (people DO realize our PF's combined for 48 POINTS last night right?). The only one we consider is for a legit star who will be here longer than this year and the next. That would amount to (out of all the stuff thrown out there that I've seen so far) Paul, Kevin Martin, or Randolph, and not much else honestly. Letting T-Mac's contract expire on us is looking better each day that our "role players" like Landry and Lowry keep stepping their games up.
even though i would love to see CP3 or Bosh in Rocket's uniform, i think we have to be careful in not giving up too much. For example, god forbid something happens to CP3 or Bosh, then we re worse off than before. I think we should wait for the end of the year and look to sign someone rather than in a big trade. just my opinion
