Parsons suitors could include T'wolves, Lakers, Bulls, Mavs, along with Rockets

You're wrong. People come to watch other teams, and they buy hot dogs, thus justifying salary expenses. Plus, if you get a chinese guy on your team, chinese fans will come watch him.

 

Dude, the only way the Wolves get a star is to draft them.

Look at the West, look at how tough it is. Whatever the get for Love won't be enough to make them a playoff team.

Parsons, Shved, Rubio, Gasol, Pek is NOT a playoff team in the West lol.

 

Well, in Minnesota's case, it's apparently Glen Taylor who's pushing for them to win. He's 73 already and isn't willing to sit through another rebuilding project. Flip Saunders also felt that the Wolves can make a Blazers-like run. Or he probably sold that idea to his owner.

My own opinion is that in order for the Rockets to get Love, it will have to be similar to a 3-team trade like this. Lin+Pelicans pick to Philly for Thaddeus Young. Parsons S&T to a similar deal that Minnesota was willing to pay Klay Thompson. Add DMo or Jones, and future 1st, and use Asik's $8.3mil trade exception. For Kevin Love and some combination of salary dumps among Brewer/Barea/Martin/Budinger/Shved that they want to get rid of.

Basically I feel the Rockets need one more vet from a 3rd team, which they can obtain by using Lin + some assets.

 

The only way I accept trading Parsons to get Love is if Corey Brewer comes with him.

 

Minnesota fans can't get rid of Brewer fast enough. They hate him up there and think he's grossly overpaid. It's safe to say that if Parsons is in the trade, Minnesota will love to give him away.

 

What??? First off, there aren't many new threads being created.

Secondly, it's much easier to keep up with new topics for things like this than when they get buried on page fifty-something in another thread.

 

Yes.

We will still have our non-Tax Payer MLE if we trade for Kevin Love.

 

I think Ariza is looking for more than the MLE and I think Marion is planning on going back to the Mavs since he loves it there. PJ Tucker would be awesome IMO though and in the event that we trade Parsons in a trade for Love I would think he could fill the role as SF on the Rockets very well.

 

And you are absolutely, completely, certifiably insane.

Parsons is good. He's great at league minimum. At $10M+ he's okay to solid to potentially overpaid. Love is a MAX level player.

If Parsons is what it takes to get Kevin Love, you get Kevin Love.

Harden + Dwight + Love is a near ideal fit in terms of roster. Outside of Lebron James, I'd take Love over anyone else available in FA right now and that's including Melo.

I like Parsons. He still has upside. However, if you're holding up a Love trade over Parsons then you need to re-assess your worldview.

 

I'm on the side that if Parsons is the linch pin to a Kevin Love deal, you do it before the Wolves can reconsider.

I'm a huge Parsons fan, he is the 2nd or 3rd best Small Forward in the West, but he is not some transcended talent. He is only a borderline all-star and may never actually make an all-star team.

Kevin Love is arguably the best Power Forward in the game today. He is an elite rebounder and his offensive game probably fits Dwight Howard's game better than any other Power Forward in the game today.

You don't pass on a talent like Kevin Love to keep someone like Chandler Parsons on your roster.

 

trading sam and horry still makes my stomach turn but I guess if you have to give up something to get a once in a decade type player you have to do it.

 

He's out of houston for sure. I don't mind.

Let's get Lowry and low ball Love.

 

the lakers, bulls, and mavs are all chasing bigger name guys than parsons. once lebron, bosh, and lowry all fit in miami somehow, and melo signs with the bulls... the mavs and lakers will start considering RFAs.

but even then i think they look at other guys before parsons. eric bledsoe and greg monroe should be the top two choices for the lakers and mavs. they also have URFAs like stephenson, gortat, pau (for the mavs), and hawes that are all higher on their list.

the wolves would want to know what they are doing with love first. if they are trading him, now isnt the time to start spending money on free agents. if they decide there are no good trades, then they might make some offers to FAs in order to make one last try at the playoffs to convince love to stay.

so parsons may not get any offers for a while. the rockets will have plenty of time to work out their own plans.

 

The other thing to consider is this, both Love and Parsons are 25 years old! It's not like you are trading one young guy for a guy that only has a few years of prime basketball left.

If you could trade for a 25 year old superstar that very likely has not even entered the prime of his career you do it every single time. Harden is 24 and Love is 25. The Rockets would have arguably the 3 best players at their prospective positions. Two of those players are just interring their prime and none of them are even 30 yet!

 

Exactly

 

lmao.

 

@LarryCoon 6/29
"When Parsons gets an offer from another team, rockets have THREE days to match."

 

Hopefully the figures are only relayed to Morey and agreed upon...and the offer sheet is not signed so we are on the clock.

 

^This

 

This whole deadline is irrelevant from a practical standpoint. Any trade scenario will have been fleshed out before July 10th anyway. If nothing's done by then, nothing will be happening anyway. The 10-day buffer between talking to FAs and actual signing means no team can blindside the Rockets with a quick offer.