Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the rockets decide to rebuild. TRADE #1: Three-Way Trade HOUSTON trades: Steve Francis, Maurice Taylor and Kelvin Cato HOUSTON receives: #2 pick, #3 pick, Jamal Crawford, Danny Fortson, Erick Dampier, some future 1st rounders CHICAGO trades: #2 pick, Jamal Crawford, Eddy Curry, Travis Best CHICAGO receives: Steve Francis, Kelvin Cato, Larry Hughes GOLDEN STATE trades: #3 pick, Danny Fortson, Erick Dampier, Larry Hughes GOLDEN STATE receive: Maurice Taylor, Eddy Curry, Travis Best TRADE #2: Two-Way Trade HOUSTON trades: Cuttino Mobley, Glen Rice, Kenny Thomas HOUSTON receives: Lamar Odom, Quentin Richardson, #8 pick, #12 pick LAC trades: Lamar Odom, Quentin Richardson, #8 pick, #12 pick LAC receives: Cuttino Mobley, Glen Rice, Kenny Thomas END RESULT: HOUSTON: #1 pick: Yao Ming #2 pick: Jason Williams #3 pick: Dajuan Wagner #8 pick: Amare Stoudemire #12 pick: Maybyner Hilario #15 pick: Project big man Jamal Crawford Danny Fortson Erick Dampier Lamar Odom Charles Oakley (via freeagency) HOUSTON C Yao Ming / Erick Dampier / Amare Stoudemire PF Danny Fortson / Charles Oakley / Hilario Maybyner SF Lamar Odom / Eddie Griffin / Terence Morris SG Dajuan Wagner / Quentin Richardson PG Jay Williams / Jamal Crawford / Moochie Norris CHICAGO C Kelvin Cato / Dalibor Bagaric PF Tyson Chandler / Marcus Fizer SF Jalen Rose / Eddie Robinson SG Larry Hughes / Trenton Hassell PG Steve Francis / AJ Guyton GSW C Eddy Curry / Adonal Foyle PF Maurice Taylor / Chris Mills SF Antawn Jamison / Troy Murphy SG Jason Richardson / Bob Sura PG Travis Best / Gilbert Arenas LAC C Michael Olowokandi PF Elton Brand / Kenny Thomas SF Corey Magette / Glen Rice / Darius Miles SG Cuttino Mobley / Eric Piatkowski PG Jeff McInnis / Keyon Dooling
Arenas would get more minutes than Best and Miles would get more minutes than Rice. Now here's my suggestion: Trade Griffin and bad contracts for Theo and draft picks.
OMG! gut the team except for Mooch,EG, and TMo... As interesting as getting the first three picks is, No thanks, I'll pass. As we are, we are possibly just two players and some good luck (no injuries) from being in the playoffs again. No reason to gut the team and start all over again. Next.....
And in a couple years when the team got good all your contracts would come up for renewal at the same time and you could never keep the team together. It would be fun to watch them mature together though.
I think most computer games would crash when encountering this type of scenario ... ... anyway Huston needs fans and stability something this "trade" wouldnt result in ...
