Adding Trevor would be the easiest way financially however, there are other avenues to achieve LMA through a S&T Theoretically the Rockets could possibly avoid adding Trevor Ariza in an S&T for LMA if they signed Jason Terry and Corey Brewer to specific deals. However, Jason Terry wants to win now in this point in his career so I doubt he would agree and Corey could possibly be signed to a larger deal our right by another team so in my opinion it is highly unlikely! Now we could always add another team to help facilitate in which the players involved would vary! Every options has its own complications!
If we where getting Aldridge, I would have absolutely no problem with loosing Dmo and or Jones, who will be free agents next off season. We will not miss Dmo him with Aldridge in town, and we wouldn't pay him next summer either.
We would still have ariza and dmo plus our rooks. And go over the cap and retain the guys we have bird rights. Morey said we will be operating over the cap this year.
Llull, Terry Harden Ariza, Dekker Aldridge, Smith, Harrell Howard, Dmo Basically Dekker replaces Brewer. The Rockets had a lot of injuries last season but even then there were murmurs of playing time gripes until there was another injury and playing time opened up. PG+SG is a 3 man rotation as is PF+C.
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If he wants insight into doing business in Houston, eg personal sponsorship or growing his brand. Tad is the man.