T-Mac for Baron Davis? (Update from Sporting News)

morey is better than u, let morey do what he knows is right for the team

morey is all about flexibility, he never wants the rockets to go back to rudy t days where we sign a buncha average players to big contracts and get min value for the talent (cato, mo taylor)

dont pressure morey, he knows whats best

 

Yeah, I agree that is what he meant.

I dont understand what were thinking, but okay.

 

so basically he is politely saying deveney is wrong...gotcha.

 

Yeah but why would the rumors be out there that we were discussing a deal if we werent interested in him?

 

We are. We just arent interested in his contract.

 

Marc Stein is probably wrong. Rockets are holding out for a good deal.

 

Wait, if the Rockets aren't interested in his contract then why bother initiate the trade in the first place?

 

I think that basically means they are negotiating. Maybe the rockets want the clippers to add more valuable pieces

 

Gotchya, now makes sense to me.

 

I bet its going to be a surprise thread. A real SPLASH. Neither Baron or Carter. If not, its something minor. But I don't think the Baron deal will go down.

 

Or swallow some of the contract dollars.

 

this thread should be closed cause this trade isnt going to happen.

 

No, what should be closed is the ability for people to start new threads about topics that are already being discussed in other threads.

 

They should include denadre jordan in the trade. He has dwight howard potential

 

If the Rockets want to win now they will make a big trade. If they let this deadline past they will go into rebuild mode and you all we will not have the talent to win until AFTER 2010.

Tmac's expring next season isn't going to bring some huge name or all-star player here, if we want to win now we have to go for this and eat their contracts. If we're building around Yao...this is the move to make.

If we don't then the 09/10 season will be a failure with Artest gone and Tmac also gone. Might as well tank that season for a draft pick and who knows if Yao will want to be with this team after the 09/10 season.

If we sit and do nothing, we will be nothing 09/10.

 

You should be banned.

 

davis's stats is almost the same as TMAC, very inaccrate shooting, and his contract is worse , don't do this trade!

 

New Info on Baron Davis to Rockets rumor

Marc Stein: Sources with knowledge of the talks confirmed Wednesday night that the Rockets and Clippers discussed a deal Wednesday that would send Baron Davis to the Rockets.

Don't expect the deal to go down, though.

"Won't happen," said one source close to the process.

Said another: "There was talk [between the teams] but not enough of a salary match."

The Clippers have offered Davis to Dallas and back to Golden State in recent trade proposals and are trying again to bring an early halt to Baron's homecoming after signing the Los Angeles native to a five-year, $65 million deal in the summer. It appears that Clippers coach/general manager Mike Dunleavy -- whose job would figure to be under threat if he weren't owed more than $10 million over the next two seasons after this one -- has the blessing of owner Donald Sterling to shop Davis as much as he wants.

That's presumably because Sterling is determined to slash payroll, not only because of the effect of the global economic crisis on business but also because the most liberal spending of his 25-year ownership -- thanks in part to numerous injuries -- hasn't prevented the Clippers from spiraling to a nightmarish record of 13-41.

My longtime colleague Sean Deveney of The Sporting News was the first to report the possibility Wednesday of Davis' going to Houston. Scroll further down on this compendium of trade chatter and you will also find a report from ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard about the Clips trying to lure Houston and New Jersey into a three-way scenario that would put Davis in Houston, McGrady in New Jersey and Carter in L.A.

Yet I'm told that the Rockets are unwilling to take on Davis' contract even if the Clippers were prepared to structure a deal in which they took back Tracy McGrady, who will be 30 next season when he's due to earn $23 million while trying to make the never-easy comeback from microfracture knee surgery.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?page=TradeTalkRoundup-090218