All I want for Christmas........

Okay guys, this is it.

Christmas is coming, which means December which means trading season followed by the trade dealine. It's time to get our Christmas wishes down and post our desired trades.

All I want for Christmas is ........

1. A combination of Mo Pete for Sura's contract and our #1 pick along with our TE to Denver for Reggie Evans. Toronto would have to get the pick to make this happen.

or

2. Bonzi and Sura's contracts to the Clips for Corey Maggette. We'd have to give up our pick for that deal too.

or

3. Juwan, Bonzi, Novak, and Sura's contract to the Sonics for Rashard and Earl Watson. I think I'd do this one too. Rashard is a great shooter and we would have to give them either our pick or Novak or both along with taking back Watson's contract to get this one done.

4. Bonzi and Sura's contract to Denver for Reggie Evans and Julius Hodge. I like this deal because we actually use our TE to acquire Evans and then we net a new TE with a value of around $4.6 million.

5. Juwan and Sura's deals to the Knicks for Jerome James and either QRich or Crawford. (They'll probably send QRich.)

As you can see a lot of these deals involve Sura's contract. Sorry, I love the guy but either he plays or retires. We've got to know by December. If he essentially retires he is salary cap relief for somebody and obviously including him in a deal for Juwan makes it more likely that we can actually move Juwan. We need a backup center. Jerome is expensive....but so is Juwan. And if we can move him for Jerome and somebody, I think it is worth it.

The Rashard Lewis deal is a dream.....but if he decides he wants out and they are going south, anything can happen. Mo Pete is a no brainer. And I like the way Evans has been playing. I like the fact that we could have a hustle player on the floor at all times with him and Chuckie and if we were able to move Juwan and/or Bonzi and/or Sura for another shooter/defender, then Evans would make a lot of sense. However, for Denver to send him to us, I think we'd have to send them Bonzi.

Anyways, one of those deals is what I want for Christmas.

 

I figured this would be asked. The reason is very simple. Because we are so good with Hayes out there. Why not get another one and have one of those guys on the floor every minute of the game. We need to move away from midrange non athletic mediocre shooters (Juwan) and towards big time defensively active rebounding power forwards who are garbage men and 3 point bombers. We pick up Rashard to go along with our other shooters or we pick up a guy like Mo Pete to go along with our other shooters, then go get another banger. Evans and Hayes could effectively man a lot of minutes at the PF spot and backing up Yao at the 5.

Deke is not going to make it playing this many minutes during the regular season. JVG needs another big to do the dirty work and let Deke ride the bench until the playoffs. I can't hardly believe he has gotten the minutes he has gotten this early. And Evans' contract is very reasonable for what he brings to the table. I'd love to have him as the primary big off the bench behind both Yao and Chuckie. Surround those guys with shooters and we should be good. I want our team to outboard every opponent by 10 a game, especially getting on the offensive glass. It will make our shooters better and Yao even more effective.

Besides, if being different is the criteria, then I guess we just keep Juwan??? He is different, you know.