Celtics emerge as serious suitor for Lee, Rockets open to sign&trade

Picks as well?

 

Rotoworld has already put him on the Houston roster.
Kind of fast.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nba/1850/player?r=1

 

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Seems like it'd be harder to include Lamb in the Dwight trade now. At least, I certainly hope that's the case.

 

I have gotten the impression that players absolutely love Doc Rivers and he can sell anything to them.

 

Asking why a player would want to play in Boston is a silly silly question.

You can easily find better ways to use your ISP's bandwidth.

Boston is a historic winning franchise and Courtney has known Doc Rivers ten times longer than he's known McHale... But after getting to the NBA finals as a rookie, Courtney wants some playoff redemption and I don't blame him.

I wish him well, he'll be missed.

 

No. Base Year Compensation issues relate to when a player receives a massive raise over his prior year's salary. Marcus Camby was coming off a year in which he made over $11 million, so there were no BYC issues there. Lee is likely due to make considerably more than the ~$2.2 million salary he got last season in his new deal with Boston.

Roughly, yes. At least prior to the Lee S&T deal.

Not counting any guaranteed salary coming back from Boston, if the Rockets (1) waive all their fully non-guaranteed players (i.e., they keep Livingston and Smith), (2) renounce rights to Lee and Dragic and (3) don't sign any of the 2012 first rounders above scale, THEN the Rockets should have about $8.8 million in available cap room. That's AFTER adding both Lin and Asik. Again, that number goes down by the amount of any guaranteed salary (such as JuJuan Johnson's) coming back from Boston.

 

The fact that it's next year's second-round pick from Charlotte is encouraging. That's every bit as much of a first-round pick as, say, one from Miami.

 

More non guaranteed contracts and picks to send to Orlando.

 

2nd rounder, JaJuan Johsnon, E'Twaun Moore, and Sean Williams for Lee, not a bad hall

 

I meant Haul, I fixed it

 

Its a great point.

Every second round pick, I assume to be another Chandler Parsons. very exciting.

 

Me thinks that Jeremy Lamb ain't going anywhere.

 

Bima, why are we keeping Dragic's rights on the books? Are we holding out hope for a S&T? If so, what might a theoretical trade look like?

 

Until the Rockets absolutely, positively must have the cap room occupied by his cap hold, why WOULDN'T the Rockets hold onto Dragic's cap hold?

ACTUALLY... If the Rockets immediately waive Moore (there's some question as to whether his contract has become fully guaranteed as a Rockets vs. non-guaranteed as a Celtic - I'd like to check into that), they actually could extend the Asik offer sheet and STILL keep Dragic's cap hold on the books!

 

Is Phoenix unable to sign Dragic to the contract they offered him without us relinquishing his rights? I understand they won't make any moves that are not advantageous until they absolutely have to, but I'm just trying to understand what the potential pay-off might be.

 

Not quite sure, but might allow PHX to use up a little extra cap room then make a trade for Dragic using 150% salary matching rights. That would be tricky, however, from the Rockets' standpoint, as there are BYC issues with trading Dragic with his new starting salary.

If the Rockets can squeeze an extra second rounder out of a Dragic S&T, that's plenty reason enough for me.

I'm not holding my breath, though.

 

Wonder if this is the hold-up:

Steve Bulpett ‏@SteveBHoop
Courtney Lee deal may be in trouble. Sides trying to keep it alive

 

CHA 2nd rounder should be a good one. And the primary motivation for the trade.