The Doomsday Cult Risk: What if they blow up the season and Yao returns?

worzel gummidge · Jun 30, 2009

If Yao retires, his remaining years/salary won't count towards the team's salary cap. More importantly it possibly doesn't count during 2010 free agency. That'll be two months after qualifying for a medical retirement where his 2009-10 salary will also be retroactively taken off.

IMO the best course of action is for the Rockets to hedge their bets.

Trade for cost-effective talent with Yao in mind, so they have the pieces to make a push in the playoffs. Those same role players will make the Rockets an attractive destination for a 2010 superstar free agent, if Yao retires.

Completely re-building from ground up does not work unless a team lucks out in the lottery like Portland. Even with all the young talent they have, without Roy, aren't they just another Memphis, OKC, or Minnesota?

Looking at the names available in 2010 FA. I'd consider trades like: Battier for Batum + Outlaw.
McGrady for Lee (S&T) + Mobley.
McGrady for Hinrich + Miller.

Raven said:

If Yao comes back, it's only a matter of time before he's injured again.

And again.

And again.

He's brittle. It's over. Time to move on.
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If there was no Adrian Wojnarowski article, there would be no hysteria.

Carl Herrera · Jun 30, 2009

sbyang said:

A good 'blow it up' deal is the KG deal. People kill Mchale for that deal, but it's starting to look more even as time goes along. A horrible 'blow it up' deal is the Pau Gasol deal.
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And how far have the T'Wolves gotten in the 2 years since.

In fact, where's the guy they traded for. Yeah... injured. Isn't injury risk to a franchise player why we are doing it in the first place? People act like guys you trade for don't come with risks of their own.

In order to do a 'blow it up' deal, we need the other team to be close to a contender/just solid player away; or, the player in question is not fitting with his coach/teammates (maybe the best player on the team can't stand the guy); or, the player has a year left and is threatening to leave.

So we should be looking to see if established guys like Bosh grow more and more unhappy, or if a young knuckhead like Beasley pisses off Riley enough to take 60 cents on the dollar. Miami already offered up Beasley for the #2, would Luis Scola + Brooks get that Beasley? It's an awful lot to give up and the guy is a clown, but he's an extremely talented clown that outplayed Blake Griffin in college head to head and was the #2 player drafted.
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I am not convinced Beasley and Bosh are cornerstones of a championship team. Riley doesn't seem convinced about Beasley and he knows a thing or two about championships. As for Bosh? What exactly did his team do last year?

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