i would take earl watson for the TE. i doubt they would do it though. he is the only other PG on the team next to ridnaur.
I'm living in Seattle now and I'd be surprised if they let this team leave. I'm sure they will cough up money toward a new arena rather than let the team move, which would squash all this talk about trading for players. This city has great job growth right now and I'd be surprised to see them let something like this happen and dampen the mood...although I will say that many of the Sonics fans left to get UW season tickets because they have some great talent and a great coach, just a better atmosphere for basketball.
Truth or bull, this topic does not affect the Rockets more directly than any other thread in NBA dish. So there it goes.
If the Sonics lease is up in 2010, then Seattle may have no choice but to let the team go. I'm sure OKC could have an NBA-ready building built by then. Also, I bet the new ownership could force a buyout of the remaining years, ala Bud Adams. Anyway, if the Sonics are looking to cut payroll in the interim, the Rockets' TE would look great to them. Could Earl Watson be had? Also, would they match a MLE offer to Chris Wilcox? PG: Alston/Watson/Lucas III SG: McGrady/Snyder/Head SF: Battier/Novak/Bowen PF: Wilcox/Howard/Hayes C: Yao/Mutumbo How good would that be? Have the Rockets been waiting on this? Probably not. But, still it sounds great.
Will: "are there any players on the Sonics that might be attractive to the Rockets?" I think you need to read the question again. It is all-about the Rox roster and who might be available to us if the Sonics had some sort of fire-sale. That is about as close as you can get to Roster Movement. I guess you didn't see the link further down the thread to an article verifying the rumor. They are being sold to an Oklahome Group, but there is no information on where they might move.
The NBA has made a lot of mistakes recently in the franchise location game. Giving Charlotte another team as a "make-up" for Shinn's shenanigans has backfired given that they are already at the bottom of the pile in attendance which is a bad sign for an expansion team after 2 seasons. I don't believe New Orleans itself is going to be able to support a team either despite the best intentions of everybody involved, their future was questionable before the hurricane. OKC is probably a place where the NBA doesn't really want to be in terms of marketing and TV ratings but I suppose it could do well in a Spurs-like "only game in town" way. But I think the natural way to do that is to uproot charlotte or New Orleans - which have little tradition in the area each is in and not-so-great prospects. Instead you uproot the Sonics who ahve been a fixture in seattle for decades and that I have always associated with the city (I mean they used to have the space needle on their uniforms for gods sake). Could have been done better, IMO.
Thanks krocket, I thought that Will missed the point as well. I know that helping to moderate this forum is not always easy, but I do think that the potential "fire-sale" will come at a time that might benefit the Rockets!
The GARM is crowded enough as it is. Everybody wants to put threads in there, and lots of things going on in the NBA could be turned into GARM threads by saying "What should the Rockets do if this team moves" or "How can the Rockets capitalize if this guy doesn't sign his extension." But unless there's some kind of explicit link to the Rockets, in print, putting all those potentially-Rockets-related threads in the GARM would turn this into a one-forum bulletin board. There's nothing wrong with discussing big NBA news in the NBA dish forum. Really. Here's an example, and I encourage more folks to join in this thread and prove it can be done.
Couldn't agree more. I have a heck of a time remembering which thread I posted last in over in the GARM. If there are intriguing threads in here, I check them out. Following the drama in Seattle might make this thread stick around for a long time, if people are smart enough to bump it when there is some news. It would be on page 3 in GARM in no time, otherwise, lost amongst the rest.
