http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/story?id=1565844 But those won't be the only changes. Van Gundy is close with Latrell Sprewell. The Knicks are anxious to move him and Van Gundy will definitely be pushing to add another veteran or two to the mix. A trade of Glen Rice, Cuttino Mobley and Bostjan Nachbar for Spree and Othella Harrington would work under the salary cap. Mobley can swing between the one and the two, Nachbar is a promising young small forward and Rice comes off the books at the end of the season.
I don't like trading Nachbar, and why would we want Othella? We don't need him because we have Cato and Taylor. But I would do Rice and Mobley for Spree, well maybe, I don't really like Spree.
i am not ready to give up on nacbar....and mobley is as good as sprewell at this stage of their careers..... kill the trade
Nope cant copy and paste. But I would not do this trade at all. Mobley is just as good, we dont know what Boki is going to be able to do, and I think Spree could be a cancer. Look at him last year.
I don't think JVG wants to jump in and start making trades. He is going to assess what we have, before he trades anyone away who might be just what he is looking for. Unless there is a player that just rubs him the wrong way, and he doesn't want that player on the team. That's about the only trade I can foresee happening. I don't think we will see any major roster changes this off-season. They are going to focus on putting his system into place with this team.
I think JVG would consider making Mobley a sixth-man b/4 he trades him. If the trade rumor is legit, I don't like it that much. Sprewell with Yao-Francis?? Just doesn't seem like a good fit w/those young guys.
At this point, I'd rather keep Cuttino, who's got a lower contract than Sprewell. These annual personnel changes are killing our team. The Spurs have proven that you don't need scorers at every position. If we can bring in a veteran PG that can give Francis a break, like Speedy Claxton does in SA, then we'll be in good shape. How about a Mookie Blaylock? We'd then have Mookie and Moochie on the same team.
It's not about evaluate what he has now but what he sees out there that may fit well with the overall nucleus of the team. Best Believe if JVG going to trade someone, it will be around the draft so when he goes into camp ,he'll have everyone in place to learn his system not later.
Close, 35. Seriously, look at all the dinosaurs on the Spurs bench: Kevin Willis Steve Smith Steve Kerr Danny Ferry - all of these guys are at least 35.
As Spurs close in, Van Gundy is Texas' latest score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Marc Stein ESPN.com Someday soon, someone down there is really going to ask this question. Doesn't matter that the Lone Star State is universally regarded as a football state. Someone is going to ask out loud, with some justification: Is Texas big enough for its three NBA teams? Van Gundy's immediate goal in Houston: Playoffs or else. It's a question that grows more legitimate by the minute, because Texas is where it's all happening. Back in November, when the foundation took shape, California was still the unquestioned capital on the NBA map, with the Lakers and Kings considered the league's mightiest franchises and the transfer of power thought to be at least a year off. Not now. Not since the playoffs started. Not with Texas quickly becoming an even bigger story than it was. Mavericks hush skeptics by reaching conference finals. Spurs dethrone Lakers and then outlast Mavs to inch toward second championship in five years. Rockets hire Jeff Van Gundy, straining to keep up with their neighbors. Monday's announcement that Van Gundy has agreed to succeed Rudy Tomjanovich as Yao Ming's coach continued the power shift. The Rockets can now claim three marquee names, including Steve Francis, as they move into a new arena in October. Of course, the new standards of the state suggest that Van Gundy, at worst, better get Houston in the playoffs by next April, or else the Rockets might be ripe for exile. Just hiring a big-name coach -- the biggest name they could get after Larry Brown went to Detroit instead -- might not amount to much by next week, if the Spurs trump the Rockets by winning another title. Especially if the Spurs then go out this summer and sign Jason Kidd or Jermaine O'Neal or any other prominent helpers when David Robinson retires ... as part of what their owner actually once called "rebuild mode." That's how it is in Texas these days. Rebuilding is bigger and better than ever before
For those that don't have Insider, here's the section of the article Rockets fans would be interested in: Man, check out the Glen Rice-for-Glenn Robinson rumor!! WTF?? How in the hell could that be pulled off...has G-Rob fallen off that much? And would he be a good fit for HOU?
I don't like this trade at all. But what about Speedy Claxton? I think he'd be a pretty good backup point guard and a definite upgrade from Moochie. The guy is very young and lightning quick. Larry Brown loved this kid in Philly but realized that it just couldn't work to have him and AI. I think the word was that the Spurs weren't resigning him too.
