[ESPN] Rockets to decide on Knicks, Bulls offer Wednesday

Wow, if the Rockets could get Gibson from the Bulls, that would be awesome. I like him more than Hill and WAAAY more than Thomas.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=TradeTalkRoundup-2010

POSTED: Feb. 17 -- 3:09 p.m. ET

McGrady

Chad Ford: The Knicks and Rockets spoke Wednesday morning about a potential Tracy McGrady trade. Sources familiar with the negotiations told ESPN.com that although the Knicks told the Rockets they remain interested in acquiring the shooting guard in a deal for Larry Hughes and Jared Jeffries, they are still unwilling to meet all of the Rockets' demands -- cap relief, Jordan Hill, the swapping of 2011 first-round picks and the Knicks' 2012 first-round pick.

"We'd like McGrady and the cap relief," one Knicks source said. "But the Rockets are asking for too much. We're willing to pay a premium to make a deal. But the price right now is still too high."

According to the source, the Rockets are still looking for other partners. The Bulls have been mentioned as a possibility, but sources believe their offer is less attractive than the Knicks' -- even if the Knicks don't give the Rockets everything they're asking for.

EDIT: My bad, didn't see BimaThug post it.

 

Damn, I thought this was gonna be taken care of by Today? That means we wont have time to pull off another deal! I was hoping we could trade for a shooting guard since most GM's are gonna start to panic, ala Kings or Sixers.

 

Damn, then Morey should tell the the New York Dicks to piss off! We will take our business to Ch-Town then!

 

So NYK wants to just give us Hughes and Jeffries....no thanks, i'll take whatever Chicago has to offer then which is a player that could help right now.

 

we stiill have 9 more hours of today left, damnit for making me stay up late 2 nights in a row!!!

 

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/player?rd=1#/podcenter/?id=4921923&autoplay=1&callsign=ESPNRADIO

 

Have fun over-paying Boozer this summer, Mr Walsh. Chicago is getting the chip.

 

Mark Stein on now.

 

Let me ask you all this:

If the Bulls' offer does not have a pick (or the Rockets want more picks in the Bulls' deal), and given that Tyrus Thomas will be an UNrestricted free agent unless the Rockets tender him a $6.26M qualifying offer that he would likely accept, would you be willing to flip Thomas under a deal like the following:

Tyrus Thomas and David Andersen
for
Brian Cardinal's expiring contract and Charlotte's first rounder (currently #17)

This would be done as a three-team deal. The Rockets still get under the luxury tax threshold.

Thoughts??? (And, yes, I know that Cardinal is a scrub. It's about the pick.)

 

now that nate robinson is a celtic, if some of you dont know yet it will be reported in a few hours i think...
the knicks could possibly land some picks from the celts and that will FU**ING help to finalize the rockets deal

lets hope for the best

also good luck for mac in the future,

 

for me...HELL yes

 

Yes, you take the pick.
We can resign Miller cheap as our 3 point floor stretching big man for a 2 year deal, basically replaces what Anderson does.
Try to Package the #17 and our pick (anywhere from #12 to #20) and move into the top ten of the draft.

 

I would probably want more in return than the 17th pick and cap space.

 

I think the pick from the Celts is a 2nd rounder, I don't see why Morey would go for that.

 

Absolutely. Although if Tyrus can net Chicago a number one I think they may have taken that already. It was reported that's what they wanted for him, but yes I do it

 

part of me would, however i would like to see what tt could do under adelman..
if he shows life we could tender him...if not, well i guess we lose him for nothing possibly

 

Yeah, they want a first rounder for Thomas, straight up.

But with the Rockets, Chicago views Thomas as the price for getting Salmons off its books. But Morey also wants a pick or two.

 

Bima, Prolly a pipe dream but if that happens and we have the two first rounders and an asset say like Brooks does that net us Wall in your opinion?