Man, i didn't realise people on Clutchfans forgot how important superstars are, and CP3 is one of the few superstars in the league, but no we should take more role players.
Funny how people used to complain how Brooks can't pass the ball to Yao and they weren't playing well with each other. Now we're talking about trading for Chris Paul...it's freaking Chris Paul! I'd include Scola and Brooks no problem.
I haven't read BimaThug's post, but I'll try to muddle through on the Salary Cap stuff. You can acquire as many players as you like for McGrady as long as your willing to release guys. If you send out McGrady you could get 4 players in return but you'd have to do something like releasing Dorsey, Cook and Harris. Teams do this all the time. As long as the McGrady deal is legal under the CBA, you can do the deal and release players. If they have guarenteed money then you still owe them, but you can still do the transaction. You really think nobody can afford McGrady's contract? NY could do it. Washington could do it. New Orleans could do it. Sacramento could do it. Those are just a few based on the trade proposals that have been suggested.
If Im looking to trade TMac I think you have to look at a three team deal where one team gets a lot of cap relief this summer, the other gets some quality players, and we get a little bit of both. To that end, the following works per realgm: Houston sends TMac to GS and receives Randolph and Morrow and Blount, Cardinal and Brewer from Minnesota. Golden State sends Ellis and Maggette to Minnesota and Randolph and Morrow to Houston and receives TMac and Rubio's rights. Minnesota sends Rubio's rights to GS and Blount, Cardinal, and Brewer to Houston and receives Ellis and Maggette We do it to get TMac out of dodge and receive a potential star in Randolph and a one day Battier replacement in Brewer while basically keeping $15 million of TMac's $23 available for the summer. GS gets out from under two bad contracts and receive a possible superstar pg in Rubio. Minnesota would have very little cap space after this, but do they ever draw free agents anyway? This way they get something for Rubio and get two above average scorers to team with Love and Jefferson. Probably not enough to put them in the playoffs, but a definite step up in talent that provides hope for the future. Thoughts?
McGrady, Brooks and Scola for Paul, Peja and Posey works for me. You are correct that CP3 is a BYC guy. The trick teams commonly use to get around that is to make the total value of salaries on the NO side (the side that has the BYC player) big enough to cover the BYC amount in the allowed 25% difference. Since Paul's BYC amount is $6.7M, then you need the total salaries on the Hornets side to be 4 times that (just under $27M). Being McGrady's salary is so large, you're pretty much in that ball park once you start matching salaries.
I think Morey's ultimate end game is a buyout. If he gets TMac to waive about $3.5 million of his salary in a buyout, it gets the Rockets under the luxury tax threshold. This in turn would save the Rockets millions: $7 million in salary plus tax penalty, plus a rebate of several million more when you factor they will become eligible for the proportionate redistribution of the luxury tax revenues the league makes to teams under the threshold. Come February, right after the trade deadline passes, when TMac is itching to play so that he will have a shot at earning another contract, he will accept a buyout at a reduced salary. He would have to be waived and sign with another team by March 1st to be on that teams playoff roster, so after the trade deadline passes with no McGrady trade, the pressure on him in those 12 or so days to take a paycut will be enormous.
I'm watching the Spurs post game (I'm in Austin) and they took a caller question. His question was "should the Spurs trade Richard Jefferson for Tmac?". The announcer says "how many ways can I say NO?. The guy is a disease and we don't need that in the locker room." Maybe next time he should tell us how he really feels.
You are a moron it seems to me like you are a T-Mac hater first Rockets fan second lol...a lot of people have become like that now in these forums we can be dumb and trade tmac for nothing we have to get best deal possible and if we can't find it KEEP HIM AND PLAY HIM...
haven't seen the whole thread, so dunno if it's posted. http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...i-30-bulls-bits-chicago-dec30,0,2534349.story I still stand by that the Bulls are the most realistic trade partners.
For Chris Paul, I would let the Hornets take any two players on the roster plus McGrady. I would take back crappy contracts, as well. Chris Paul is the truth.
Lots of teams that say they are not interested suddenly become interested when they fall out of the playoffs and their owner starts looking at the bottom line. DD
There is no need to rush to trade Tmac because this team is playing great without him. So why not wait until Feb if we HAVE TO in order to get the best deal??
