Rockets offering Scola, Ariza and Battier in sign-and-trades for Bosh or Amar'e

devin23 · Jul 3, 2010

The only reason I can see Houston trying to give up Ariza AND Battier is if we are going a better SF in another trade. Lebron or Luol Deng maybe. Since there is no mention of the pick in the bosh trade, they are probably going to be given away in another trade So...

Brook/Lowry
martin/taylor
lebron or luol/chase
Bosh/??? (hill or pat who ever isn't traded)
Yao/???

Corpusfan · Jul 3, 2010

This is way too much for Stoudemire! I don't believe it.

JoeBarelyCares · Jul 3, 2010

BimaThug said:

I didn't think all three would be traded either, unless a guy like Marcus Banks was also coming back from Toronto.

However, Feigen is wrong when he says that Scola can be signed-and-traded along with one veteran in exchange for a maxed-out Bosh. Due to Base Year Compensation issues, Scola will only count, for outgoing salary for trade purposes, at the greater of (a) his previous salary (~$3.3M) or (b) 50% of his new salary. Given that the Rockets must come up with at least $13.2M in outgoing salary, even if they included their largest veteran contract (Battier's $7.4M expiring contract - they're not parting with Yao or Martin in the deal), that two-player package would not work under the salary cap. Unless you think Scola's going to get a starting salary next year of $11.6M. That's probably not going to happen. A third player with a moderately sized salary (in the Andersen/Hayes/Hill range) would also need to be included.

That said, I doubt that it ends up being a Scola/Battier package. Toronto will likely want Jordan Hill and may prefer Ariza to Battier, given that the Raptors know they need to rebuild and yet still desperately need defense.

It'll be interesting to see what the package ends up being. That is, if we ever find out about it at all.
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I'd much rather see us move Ariza and Hill than Battier and Scola.

TMac4Life#1 · Jul 3, 2010

Ok since Amare is likely to go to NY that leaves Bosh. Why trade two wing players? Is C-Bud going to start? Is RA still considering the combination of Brooks and Lowry? That would but Kevin Martin at the 3.

You trade away damn near half your cast that means something for one player. No way. I respect these 3 guys games and Bosh games but I'll rather have 3 guys who you can count on than one person.

Meaning that Bosh can have a bad night who is going to step up? you gave away 3 pieces to the puzzle for one guy. No one knows how Yao is going to respond. Being away for a year makes a big difference. Timing and everything is going to take a huge toll on Yao.

rocketblaze · Jul 3, 2010

BimaThug said:

I didn't think all three would be traded either, unless a guy like Marcus Banks was also coming back from Toronto.

However, Feigen is wrong when he says that Scola can be signed-and-traded along with one veteran in exchange for a maxed-out Bosh. Due to Base Year Compensation issues, Scola will only count, for outgoing salary for trade purposes, at the greater of (a) his previous salary (~$3.3M) or (b) 50% of his new salary. Given that the Rockets must come up with at least $13.2M in outgoing salary, even if they included their largest veteran contract (Battier's $7.4M expiring contract - they're not parting with Yao or Martin in the deal), that two-player package would not work under the salary cap. Unless you think Scola's going to get a starting salary next year of $11.6M. That's probably not going to happen. A third player with a moderately sized salary (in the Andersen/Hayes/Hill range) would also need to be included.

That said, I doubt that it ends up being a Scola/Battier package. Toronto will likely want Jordan Hill and may prefer Ariza to Battier, given that the Raptors know they need to rebuild and yet still desperately need defense.

It'll be interesting to see what the package ends up being. That is, if we ever find out about it at all.
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Personally I prefer them taking Scola and Battier, plus I don't see them wanting Jordan Hill, given that they have a similar player in Ed Davis.

--RB

BetterThanEver · Jul 3, 2010

The Rockets could also use the $3 mil trade exception from the Landy trade in a seperate trade for Bellini, so the Raptors aren't taking as much salary back for dealing with the Rockets.

$3.0 m trade exception for Marco Bellini($2.38 m) in a 2nd trade.

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