Could Rockets Could Join LAL-ORL Trade as 3rd Team Once Again?

He is but what makes you think he'd come here for less money and an inferior team compared to the Nets?

 

If we won't be able to overhaul our roster...hello Mr. 2013 14th pick and 9th seed in the West. :grin:

 

I'd really like to see Kevin Martin and Gasol play together, if we're so determined to get Gasol. I'd rather sub in a young guy or two if we're facilitating a trade with Orlando. I suppose Martin is important to the deal because of his fat salary, but I'm sure a way could be found.

On the flip-side, I have no interest in seeing Howard in LA. I could live with Paul -- he's just a guard, and he's a little injury-prone. But the Lakers with Dwight Howard is something to fear.

 

its time to screw the lakers..payback!

 

I don't think this trade was ever about pairing up Martin with Gasol. Les has been clear that he will pay whatever it takes to bring another championship to Houston. This trade enabled the Rockets to make a run at Dwight Howard. NeNe is a quality big Orlando can use for defense, post scoring, and rebounding. Montiejunas is a center they can use in the future. Morris provides rebounding and scoring as well as the toughness they will miss with Howard gone. If that isn't enough, Patrick Patterson is efficient enough to solve all of their problems moving forward. That's NeNe, and 3 quality first round picks. I would take that any day instead of Brook Lopez, or Andrew Bynum. The Magic can also unload some of their unwanted contracts onto Houston using the Battier trade exception.

D12 would have been convinced to give Houston a shot with Gasol. We have good defenders, and 3 point shooters to put around them...not to mention Kyle Lowry.

 

1. Rockets amnesty Thabeet, and waive Cousins and Blakely. That creates just enough cap room to trade Lowry to LA for Gasol. However, LA uses its newly acquired trade exception from the Odom trade to acquire Lowry. As such, the Gasol transaction is a "separate" trade, for which it receives a $18.7 million trade exception.

2. Armed with the exception, LA can do "two separate" transactions with Orlando, trading the newly acquired Dallas 1st round pick to Orlando for Dwight ($18.09 million) using the Gasol trade exception. The second deal is Bynum for Turkoglu's albatross contract.

3. The Rockets can then offer Martin, Scola, Dragic, TWill and the Knicks pick to NO for CP3. Maybe the league approves this deal because TWill is younger than Odom (illusion that he is a better asset for NO), makes a smaller salary, because it feels sorry for screwing the Rockets over (ok, not likely), is the best offer it will get, and/or the real reason, CP3 is going where he doesn't want to go, and not to a big market.

4. The Rockets sign a shooting guard to back up Lee with their $2.5 million exception, available under the new CBA.

 

THE ROCKETS ARE NOT GOING TO GET DWIGHT HOWARD OR ANY OF THE ELITE PLAYERS WHO DONT WANT TO PLAY FOR US (MOREY AT THAT)

You guys need to stop being delusional

 

Why don't we try to get the best player in the trade the next time we try to make a trade. I'm tired of my team being the ugly girl that the pretty girl lets tag along to do the grunt work.

 

Lakers get Howard, Scola
Rockets get Gasol, Lakers pick from Dallas (and sign Nene)
Orlando gets Bynum, Martin

Need to add something else to make the math work, but I think it could work.

 

That is creative but it still has issues:

- Orlando would be trading Howard and only receiving Bynum and a dump of Turkoglu'd contract. That is not enough return for Howard. I don't see a way that LA makes a serious run at Howard unless they include both Gasol and Bynum.

- The league would now have to ok an even worse deal for the Hornets while ensuring that both Howard and Paul end up in LA?

- Houston also has to include Lowry too?

 

How about Houston do a straight trade for paul with young players( sorry ppat) THEN we get with orlando and finish a trade for dwight? Otis wants good players and we will give him kmart, scola and thabeet

 

Don't know if it'll work out salary wise. Add the fact you'd spend all season convincing both to sign and extensions and risk losing them at the end of the season and be stuck with nothing.