Random Houston Rockets Trade Ideas - 2012-13

If Dwight did come here trade idea

Asik, Lin, T-rob, Dmo for Horford

Sign Brooks (and possibly Garcia) back for cheap.

Beverley/Brooks
Harden/Anderson
Parsons/Delfino/Garcia
Horford/Jones
Howard/Smith

Scary team right there.

 

My pipe dream would be Greg Monroe of the Pistons. But I don't know why Detroit would want to trade him or what we'd have to give up to get him. Just a gut feeling.

BTW my previous pipe dreams in past seasons were for Ron Artest from the Kings and James Harden from OKC. I was like "Man, it would be great to have this guy on the Rockets. He'd be a perfect fit." Then, coincidentally Morey went out and got them.

So you never know.

 

THIS. Greg Monroe is my favorite of all the young PFs. I just think that we'd have to give up way too much to get him with the big ideas they have in Detroit of two towers with Drummond.

 

want him too but they're not trading him

they're trying to build a twin towers in detroit

 

How about getting Mike DUnleavy Jr?

 

A few players on my wish list:
Landry Fields, he would be a backup to Harden and Parsons as Delfino was this year, but younger. We'd have to evaluate his 3 point shot, but I think fields is a gritty defender who loves the spotlight.

Somehow trade up to draft Trey Burke. I'd give up Jeremy Lin, our 34th pick, and 2 of our power forwards for Burke. He and Beverley would own the backcourt, shooting and distributing along James Harden.

Obviously, the ultimate trade target for the Rockets is Kevin Love. He's the best rebounder in the league and shoots the 3 at a high clip, and it's well known that he's frustrated with the lack of talent in Minnesota. Anyone but Parsons and Harden is bait for K-Love!

 

Take a look at Field's contract and tell me if you still want him.

 

This proposal has multiple steps, so I've included the impact on the cap space and roster after each step. This assumes the cap for 2013-2014 is set at $59 million.

Step #1 - Portland Trade
Houston In: LaMarcus Aldridge
Portland In: Asik, TRob, TJones, Beverley, Houston 2014 #1

Impact on Houston's Guaranteed Cap for 2013: +$1 million ($40.5 million guaranteed)

Lin / Brooks
Harden / Anderson
Parsons / Delfino
Aldridge / DMo
Smith / Ohlbrecht

Step #2 - Pickup and Decline Team Options
Pickup Options: Delfino ($3 million), Parsons ($1 million), Smith ($1 million), Ohlbrecht ($1 million)
Decline Options: Garcia ($6.4 million), Brooks ($2.5 million), Anderson ($1 million)

Impact on Houston's Guaranteed Cap for 2013: +$6 million ($46.5 million guaranteed)

Lin /
Harden /
Parsons / Delfino
Aldridge / DMo
Smith / Ohlbrecht

Step #3 - Sign 2013 Free Agents
1) Andrew Bynum - 3 year $30 million. $8M/$10M/$12M. Year 3 team option.
2) Tony Allen - 3 year $13.5 million

Impact on Houston's Guaranteed Cap for 2013: +$12.5 million ($59 million guaranteed)

Lin /
Harden / Allen
Parsons / Delfino
Aldridge / DMo
Bynum / Smith / Ohlbrecht

Step #4 Sign Drafted Players
1) Furkan Aldemir - 4 year $4 million contract. Years 2-4 team options.
2) Sergio Llull - 4 year $16 million contract. Years 3-4 team options.

Impact on Houston's Guaranteed Cap for 2013: +$5 million ($64 million guaranteed)

Lin / Llull
Harden / Allen
Parsons / Delfino
Aldridge / DMo / Aldemir
Bynum / Smith / Ohlbrecht

 

I would like Houston over this summer get a defensive stopper for this roster any of these guys would help. i dont know salaries fits or if could be traded or FA signings.
Kirk Hinrich
Matt Barnes
Avery Bradley
C.J. Miles
Larry Sanders
Courtney Lee
Gerald Green
Gerald Henderson
LUOL DENG
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute

 

Morey's recent Twitter followings of D12 & CP3 got me thinking about how he could get them both to come to H-Town. What do you think about this...

CP3 & D12 both come to H-Town because more than anything else they want a ring. Maybe these two even talk to each other over the Summer.

JSmoove would come because he's buddies with D12.
We would have to trade Lin and Asik for picks. And send the roster packing.

These guys are all FREE AGENTS so there's no negotiating with teams just selling the concept to the individual players.

Imagine the Cap Limit is $61 million next year.

PG Paul 19m
SG Harden 15m
SF Parsons 888k
PF J.Smith 15m
C Howard 20m

Beverley 800k
G.Smith 777k
?
?
?

Total $71.5 million
Over $10.5 million
Luxury Tax $10.5 x 3 = $31.5 million

So we would be over the cap by about $10.5m which would result in a tax of approximately $31.5 million.

If we can't afford to pay the luxury tax then we ask CP3, D12 and JSmoove to take a less than max deal or we just don't recruit JSmoove.

I think its a line-up that can challenge Miami but don't know how well they can play together, especially CP3 and Harden.

Is it better to just keep our backcourt intact and sign Dwight and trade Asik for JSmoove? Basically the line-up I proposed but with Lin instead of CP3.

Let me know what you guys think.

 

Ignore my above post.
First time attempting this and I didn't think about how to move out the guaranteed contracts. Needs more work.

I do think we can get Howard AND Chris Paul as Free Agents though.

 

I threw in White to lower salary and get rid of him.

Omer Asik 8,374,646 & Royce White 1,719,480 for Ryan Anderson 8,308,500


All salaries are next years except Howard which is this years.

Jeremy Lin 8,374,646
James Harden 13,668,750
Chandler Parsons 926,500
Ryan Anderson 8,308,500
Dwight Howard 19,536,360

 

I like that lineup. Lethal.

 

You can't throw out White unless someone trade for him, his contract is guarented.

Again, to remind folks, the salary cap is going to be between 58-60M next year, you can NOT sign a player through FA that pushes you over that, you could theoretically do a sign and trade though, but that would have to have the other team agree obviously and you have to give something back.)

The Rockets today, if you assume the decline Garcia / Deflino / Brooks, have about 42M committed for next year, so even signing Dwight would require either trading Asik or Lin, or some other sort of maneuver (like moving Robinson) to happen. the trade must happen BEFORE you even make Dwight a official offer though, which is risky business, more than one team (including the Rockets several time in the past few years) have been burned by clearing the space only to have the players not come.

After that, the Rockets still have a mid level exception. of around 6 mill to sign someone. and can sign guys at minimum etc..

Given this though, it seems difficult to sign Howard, I'd assume they'll move Robinson first if they are serious about it, because that means even if the signing fail at least you won't be left without a center.

I would think something like Josh Smith + some more complimentary players would make more sense personally. like say.. Martell Webster. or for more named / vet version, AK 47. who'll probably opt out .

 

Jazz SnT

Paul Milsap @ 4 years 38 million (8,9,10,11) - Team Option for 4th year.

for

Jeremy Lin (8.3m)
Thomas Robinson (3.5m)

This trade immediately fills the glaring hole we have at the power forward position. Adds a mid range shooter and a good defender. It also clears the extra room we need to offer super max to Dwight Howard.

 

Love this idea. Creative move and very possible if the Jazz don't want him to walk for nothing. Milsap is probably my favorite of the PF free agents, and it would still allow for us to sign a max deal. Whether that means Howard or Love, Cousins, Monroe (not real likely) in 2014.

It also allows us to move Asik if we want to upgrade the PG position if we need to deal Lin to Utah for the S&T (they don't need a big man). This could be in a deal with the Clips for Bledsoe, who is an absolute perfect fit, or elsewhere (Clips have said they need a 3rd big man outside of Griffin/Jordan).

 

Actually adding on to that, even better, we sign Chris Paul and just keep Asik.

Starting 5:
Paul
Harden
Parsons
Milsap
Asik

Unlikely that we could get Paul, but that's just a ridiculous lineup. We wouldn't even be over the cap either if we decline team options and stuff. Might move T-Rob or something to free up a bit of space if necessary. That's just scary. I don't buy the whole "Paul and Harden can't coexist" doctrine.

 

Morey would only do something like this if we had already acquired Howard through free agency or perhaps Paul in free agency. If we have cap space why would we trade two assets for Millsap when we can sign him outright. Oh...and the contract for Millsap....look for it to be reversed...signing bonus up front with decreasing salaries in later years and last year only partially guaranteed.

 

If we decline Garcia and Olbrecht and don't pick Brooks back up, we would have about 45.1mil.

1. Thomas Robinson, Royce, and Suns' 2nd rd pick to the Bobcats for Jeff Taylor and the Blazer's pick

This would put us at 40.7mil.

Depending on what the salary cap is at, we would have to decline Delfino or trade Lin and take back not as much salary to get Dwight. I think the likely option would be declining Delfino as well.

2. Sign Dwight

From there

3. Asik and Dmo for Ryan Anderson and Robin Lopez

We match Dwight with the best available PF for him and the team and get a great backup center in Lopez so we don't have to run Smith there anymore.

Lin/Beverley
Harden/Anderson
Parsons/Taylor
Anderson/Jones/Smith
Howard/Lopez

 

The point is that we don't have enough cap room without moves.

Moving Lin plus Robinson clears up 12 million in cap room. Bringing back Milsap at 8 gives us an additional net of 4 million in cap space for this summer.