What the rockets should do with their 1 pick is trade it and Kenny Thomas for Kevin Garnett. The Twolves after this year getting crushed in the playoffs know they need to do something and by picking up Yao Ming it would let Joe Smith the person that cost them a lot to start then waist his time on the bench. This would give them a young center that can be the Ichiro of basketball and let a good Pf in Joe Smith start. Then if this trade "works" the rockets should trade the 15th pick and second rounder to move up and select Caron Butler or another good Sf to help fill the Sf void. And then either try playing Maurice Taylor at center or pick up a free agent since with Garnett people would want to come to Houston even more to play.
What's the Chinese population in Minnesota, like 10 or 15? The Chinese government would never let him play in Minnesota.
I like the thought of packaging the #1 pick and players for K.G. because Minnesota is not looking for a center. They are looking for a point guard (Jay Williams), because they are not to sure how Brandon will recover.
Actually I think the advantage Minnesota would be looking for is the marketability of that #1 pick. They can get it from us and then use it to get picks in this draft and next. Or a vet and picks. Frankly if the Twolves were to ever let Garnett go, they'd have to be very serious about rebuilding, and the #1 pick gives them a lot more flexibility than just Garnett in trades. That having been said, we'd have to give up something big for a move like that to happen. The #1 wouldn't be enough. I think they'd have to get some piece to the puzzle of whatever type of franchise they're building.
I'm sure this has already been beat to death around here, but since you can't trade a #1 pick for someone with KG's contract specifically how much salary would you need to match in order for a trade of our #1 pick and players X,Y,Z for KG to work?
Garnett made 22.4 Million dollars this year I think. I can't seem to find his contract numbers, thoe one site I know of won't seem to show it. We'd have to have an offer that is within 15% his salary this upcomming year. Also, the #1 pick would be worth 0 dollars in trade because we'd have to do it before signing a contract with whomever we drafted. It'd take a lot of contracts and the emphasis would more than likely be minimizing the cap hit that the Twolves take on.
