My prediction Lin will be traded between Dec 15-19 (make yours)

Lin is a cash cow who has been ballin this year. I don't see why we would trade him.

 

Pointless thread. Delete this joke!

 

Nah, OP is a LOH who wants Lin sent to a another team so he won't be a part of a championship here

 

This. I especially don't get the OP's assertion that trading him for an expiring (and only "possibly" something else) will somehow get us closer to getting a third star. Teams will want something in return, and I'm afraid TJones+(late) first rounders+filler ("Cap relief/picks/young talent") is just not gonna do it.

 

I'm sorry but I must disagree with you here.

I'm not 100% sold on the D-League, but I'll admit it has its merits, and the mere thought of the RGV as playing time for rookies apparently gives Daryl Morey semi-chubs.

If you look at the coaching staff, they don't seem too disposed to playing the rookies. Now, if those rookies were high draft picks and sure-fire future stars like Anthony Davis, that'd be another thing.

I agree with basketballaholic on Isaiah Canaan. I think he's gonna be good, maybe very good. But he's caught in a traffic jam of point guards.

Where I might not agree with basketballaholic is Jeremy Lin's status with the team. I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other. But Daryl Morey likes to trade players when their value is high, in part so he doesn't have to pay them; and Jeremy will likely walk in 2015.

So Jeremy Lin might be a goner. I certainly wasn't expecting him to return so soon after watching him lifted off the Toyota Center floor by LifeFlight, with his knee all mauled and two guys supporting either side, like a surfer attacked by a great white ("ew, yuck! that ain't seal! ptooey!") and helped to shore by his buddies (okay, a slight exaggeration there).

Also, if you're not looking to keep him (and he isn't a McHale favorite, let's be honest here), you need to separate him and buddy Parsons now so Parsons can get used to not having him around ("hell with this, I'll get a contract elsewhere"; "oh no you won't, I've got you til 2015") and getting paid here, in Houston.

But I don't see Lin being moved yet.

(shrugs shoulders)

Says the guy who joined in July 2012.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/sport/new-york-jeremy-lin/index.html

Let me highlight a bit from that link:

2012 / 07 / 17

 

Also, even if the team trading away a star would want an expiring or Ilyasova type instead of Lin, you can just make a 3 team trade in February rather than break it up into two steps. All the teams would still end up with the same players as OP's method would have them end up with.

The only reasons why Morey might do the "two step" approach with Asik by trading him before December 19 are 1) that Asik has quite publicly wanted out ASAP; and 2) some team is offering a good value deal now that Morey might lose if he waited. Neither of these factors are present in OP's Lin trade fantasies.

Lin is not asking out. He is not being underused. And the trades that OP listed are really not of the kind that we must act this minute on.

 

LOLOLOLOLOL... Lin's not going anywhere. Not even back home to his homeland.

 

People need to remember how big a gap there is between DLeauge and the NBA. Kendall Marshall, given up by the Suns and waived by the Wizards, is now tearing it up in the DLeague. Marcus Morris, who couldn't get on the floor as a rookie, averaged 20 ppg in the DLeague. There are plenty of other stories like these. Tim Ohlbrecht tore it up in the DLeague and is now back in the DLeague.

Canaan's being productive in the DLeague is not indication of NBA readiness. If he isn't productive in the DLeague, on the other hand, would be an indication of trouble.

 

Outside of Harden and Howard, anyone can get traded.

Trading Asik is a given since he demanded a trade and is pouting.

Trading Lin between now and the 19th doesn't really make sense for just a expiring contract. There's no guarantees you can flip that contract for something good so why do it unless you have to? if it is a expiring contract, then it really needs to be one that can still play (ie not Hedo). Because Harden or Bev could get injured and we'll be sorely underhanded in competent guards.

 

How much revenue did he pull in for Houston in particular? I guess it is hard to tell.

Some of Yao's teammates benefitted.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_worl...heat_s_shane_battier_is_still_a_big_star.html

 

Anyone see the meme that the black Adam Schefter posted today?



Get r done. Lebron to Houston lol

 

Also I still believe we have a chance to win the championship THIS year so I wouldn't trade Lin just for a expiring contract. Lin still provides valuable guard depth.

 

When it comes to predictions, Dung-holic is worse than a broken clock.....

 

No one is safe. Anyone can be traded for the right price/piece. That being said, NOone puts Morey in a corner!

 

If Canaan was ready like you think then he would of been called up last week when the vipers had 3 days off and the rockets were playing games even for insurance. Also your claiming that the coaching staff play rookies which can't be further from the truth. Except from parsons who exactly have we been playing that's a rookie?

 

I posted this in the random trade thread a few days ago .... but it fits here as a prediction.


Asik gets traded for one a package including one of the following:


Boston - Humphries (expiring)
Cleveland - Anderson Varejao (2nd year team option)
Milwaukee - Caron Butler (expiring)
Orlando - Hido Turkoglu (expiring) or less likely Jameer Nelson (2nd year team option)
Philly - Spencer Hawes (expiring) or less likely Evan Turner (expiring / qualifying offer)
Toronto - Kyle Lowry (Expiring) or Amir Johnson (2nd year team option)



Notice all these players have either expiring deals or team options beyond the end of this season.

 

No one plays any defense in the Dless League - have you seen some of the scores? Pretty easy for someone to light it up.

 

Lin gets his triple double when he played in DLeague.

http://www.nba.com/dleague/playerfile/jeremy_lin/