Is McGrady's trade value at it's peak?

Right now his value is really low despite the insurance and expiring contract. The best offer allegedly is Dalembert. Don't you think he would be gone if his trade value were high?
Most teams do not trade early in the season,and I don't think anyone will offer anything of real significance for him.

 

The problem with trading McGrady is his contract is so large, $23 million expiring. He's the highest paid in the league. So it will have to be multiple contracts coming in and multiple contracts going out as we will likely need to balance our roster, especially if the season is ongoing.

Indiana may be willing to move Dunleavy and Troy Murphy for him, but why would we do that?

Utah....Kirilenko and Boozer for McGrady and Battier? Or for McGrady, Landry, and Cook? Maybe.

Joe Johnson and Josh Smith for McGrady and Landry?

Arenas and Jamison for McGrady, Brooks, and Landry?
Or Arenas and Mike Miller for McGrady, Brooks, and Barry?

McGrady and Landry for Kevin Martin, Nocioni, and Kenny Thomas expiring?

 

By the trade deadline McG will have been back on the court, so we are led to believe, for @2 months. At that point McG's trade value will be grandly high.

McG will also be greatly valued in an SnT next summer.

McG may even be too valuable to leave the Toy Shop (as if).

 

That is a possibility, but it depends not only on his expiring contract but how he plays. If he doesn't do well,then his value will drop.

 

There are so many reasons that McGrady is still with the team, and low on the list is the fact that we actually want him here. Sorry, but there it is. We have to rebuild and waiting for McGrady to fall apart again ain't gonna cut it.

Also, whatever team trades for him wouldn't want to get skewered and fried for doing so. Gotta sell those season tickets before you announce you're throwing away the season for cap space next year.

BUT:

Les shilled out, what?, $9,000,000 just to ACQUIRE Anderson, Budinger, and Taylor. I'm glad he did, but I wouldn't be surprised if we hold onto McGrady until insurance covers some of that.

And as jopatmc mentioned, we'd have to send out other contracts to balance rosters. We'd have to give something of SOME value to get back players that we want here in the future.

Jopatmc's examples are also good ones. I would add Charlotte as a candidate, since they have been hemorrhaging money (maybe they'd take Duke alum Boozer in a 3 way trade for the rest of the season and send us 4+ assists-per-game from-the-4-spot Diaw), but hell knows where all this will end up.

 

There is roughly 10 teams out there who will be in negotiation talks. 5 of them young and in financial trouble and 5 wild cards in which 3 of them have already made offers. Out of all these teams roughly 5 of them is playoff teams. Do not rule out Chicago since McGrady moved there as well.

 

I would think that Tmacs trade value to at a low right now.

The problem with teams wanting to save money is that they would probably want to trade us their bad contracts that they want to shed. If would be unlikely teams would trade us young and up coming assets which would be valuable to us as this year is a perfect opportunity to develop young players. If Tmac comes back in nov and prove that he is still an all star forward, then his stocks would increase by the trade deadline with teams which are competing and need a reliable scorer and distributor to help lead the team. I very doubt we would get anything of value for him right now, like someone else said, we are probably going to get guys like delembert in return. I would say keep him until the trade deadline, if he is playing like a superstar again, we might get a up and rising young talent which competing teams are willing to sacrifice for a chance at the title. if nothing special comes up, keep him and see where we can go this year. If he not come back strong and still playing like crap similar to last year, then we can just let his contract come off the books which put us in good position for the FA market next summer.

 

As a player his trade value is the lowest it has ever been. As a contract however it is at its peak. I can't see anything happened to close to trade deadline, we won't be big players in the 2010 free agents but what they will hope to do is a team that wants to be will offload some good talent to get $23 mill off the books.

 

I don't understand why you would want to trade Tracy McGrady at the moment. If you trade him, you're not going to get another expiring contract. Instead you're gonna get 23 million worth of other contracts which will take away any chance of us participating in the offseason next year.

However, if we keep T-Mac until the end of the season then $ 23 mil comes off the books which means that we participate in the next offseason.

So, any team that wants to be a major player next offseason and doesn't mind risking this season, wouldn't mind taking in T-Mac

 

It all the depends on the value we get back for him.

If Morey ends up making a decision now on McGrady, the MRI news def. has to play a factor with it.

 

I think his value is stagnant and relies more on other teams situations than the Rockets.

 

Who knows all very good points this is a make or break year for him.

I don't put too much stock into it ATM.

Indiana seems like the team to me however.

Dunleavy and Budinger seems like 2 players Adelman would have on the court together.

 

Of course we have had this brought a billion times. Tracy's value is the contract alone. It doesn't matter if he plays or not. If a team wanted to save money on years from this summer or further get themselves into the sweeps, they would make a trade on that alone.

The bulls are a prime example of this. Deng just signed a deal for 6 yrs and 52 m. He's only 23 or so, but have been injured some lately. Now the bulls don't have a cash cow, but they generate alot of money. They might want tracy because his contract expires and they might want to make a run at wade. Not to mention, they made the playoffs without deng last yr. The rockets can probably get a 3rd team involved so they can get hinrich off the books also.

 

Amare, Bosh, Arenas+Jamison. Which team will suck and want to rebuild most?

 

McGrady threads...sheesh.

Anyhow, have said it many times, but lets get 10-15 good games out of him and jettison him at the trade deadline.

I am just sick of the guy (and the never ending cyclical discussion about him/his contract/his man-gina, etc etc...

 

They would not build a team around McGrady for sure.

His mindset is not in the correct frame and he still believes he is young and still a scoring champion. The team moving on without him and advancing to the 2nd round kinda hurt his feelings and motivated him.

 

The biggest problem IMO is that there simply isn't a good match. Most of the trade proposals for T-Mac on this board are either for crap that Morey wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, or they assume the other team needs money so badly they'd trade away all-stars for nothing.

At least if we wait until the trade deadline and T-Mac's not bad, there's a chance that a realistic trade proposal comes up. That is, a playoff team seeking a one-year rental for the postseason run. Such a team would likely part with a young player and/or a 1st round pick, which in my mind is about the most we can get for him.

 

Kings aren't going to offer up Kevin Martin for salary cap relief.

The Nets are interesting but taking back 4 players, especially a rookie wing and a 2nd yr 1/2 and 2 extra contracts is 2 additional players and we are already running deep on wings.

Unless Morey gets bowled over now (unlikely) with a deal for a true superstar it isn't going to get done. And a deal for a true superstar is going to have to be a colossal deal that provides the other team with substantial cap relief, something like say, CP3, Peja, and Emeka for McGrady, Brooks, Battier, Landry, Cook, and Barry, or McGrady, Landry, Battier, Cook, and Barry for Brand, Iggy, and Dalembert. Those are the kind of colossal trades it will take right now from a team looking for salary relief. But I don't see that even happening until the deadline. And even then, the odds of those deals happening are very, very, very small.

If Morey waits until the trade deadline, there is more of a chance that a team like Washington, Phoenix, New Orleans, Sacramento, etc. is going to part with their superstar/stars to rebuild and if not there will be a smaller deal available that we can make to get another expiring contract to go with McGrady's deal so we can pursue a superstar free agent this summer.


I really think we will be able to tell by early December whether or not we are going to trade McGrady. If he comes back mid-November and looks like a fit for this team, looks like he is willing to work Adelman's system, then I doubt we trade him. But if he comes back and you sense the chemistry between Adelman and him is not there, then he will be gonzo. I think it all hinges on the relationship between him and Adelman when he returns, what role does Adelman give him and is McGrady good with it. I'm going to be watching the body language and interreaction between Adelman and McGrady.