http://offthedribble.blogs.nytimes....ative-trade-can-benefit-both-parties/#more-51 Worse than some of the pro-Rockets trades here...let's comment bomb the article!
Milicic would help -- very good size, good shot-blocker, can stretch the defense. And he's got an expiring contract. If the Rockets are desperate to dump the salary, he could be a potential target. Eddy Curry -- no thanks.
Morey would never go for that, like Hall & Oats, "I can't go for that!" He would never get that desperate, remember we're in sit and wait mode.
Dun want both. Darko being the lottery pick never lived up to the hype. Great size, shotblocking but what he lacked was competitiveness and winner mentality. Needless to talk about Curry.
Morey isn't going to move McGrady simply to slip under the Luxury Tax. Not unless Tracy comes back and is a shell of his former self. Even then, I can't see this particular trade ever happening.
NY is delusional if they think they can trade away Curry without at least package a non-protected #1 or Chandler in a package.
I still believe in T-mac plus Darko and Curry are older and soft, plus we'd have too many bigs Yao Darko Curry Scola Landry Pops Hayes Plus T-mac is a good passer hell with alston gone he led in assists at 5 or so a game.
3-way Curry somewhere else and have the Knicks send that team significant draft prospects. We get someone that can play from the 3rd party...
Dumb article - insurance is paying a large portion of Yao and Tracy's salaries while they are out. Payroll and tax issues are muted from those savings. It's a big reason why the Rockets are stiff arming McGrady from coming back early. Les would be much more interested in a move that gets tickets moving, and that trade would hurt the box office. I don't expect a trade until deadline season.
I am dissapointed in you Mr Durvasa. Giving this craziness any kinda positive response is not good. Milicic does have good size yes and is relatively young to boot. But as a one year stop gap maybe. But not for the money. Next year he would be a backup. And as you did mention Curry is a overweight bust that the Bulls were happy to get rid of and once his contract expires I doubt he will make an NBA team again (maybe exaggerating here).
The NY media and their delusions. Ain't no one trading for the Pillsbury Dough Boy Curry. Fat, lazy, unmotivated; cares even less about basketball than does McGrady---probably because Tmac has talent and earns bigger money from it, but still.
Curry? Heck no. Darko and Larry Hughes plus the Knicks' unconditional #1s in 2010 and 2012 -- sure. Hughes fills a need and he's a $13M expiring while Darko shores up the F-C need. T-Mc might hurt us, though, by playing well for the Knicks and thereby improving their W-L record.
Even if Tmac's knee turned to mush I'd rather have his expiring contract than Darko and Curry. Those two are worthless bums and Curry's making a lot of money next year.
To be clear, I think the actual trade proposal is nuts, and that went without saying. But Milicic would not be a bad player to have on this team. He's owed 7.5 million, an expiring deal. Could anyone really object if the Rockets somehow pulled off a trade like: Cook, Barry, Dorsey + Barry buyout money for Milicic (not a cap expert, maybe that doesn't work) Knicks shed 2.6 milion of salary with the Barry buyout, which amounts to 5.2 million in savings because they're over the LT (if I'm not mistaken). Cook and Dorsey would maybe fit a 3-point shooting, small-ball style better than Milicic. The Rockets free up roster sports for Pops and Conroy, plus add a 7-footer who can defend and stretch defenses. Anyway, such would be my counter-proposal.
