Since we dont have alot to discuss im curious what people feel our players value is tied too. example - Yao - even though not really a superstar yet (has the potential to become one fairly soon) would only be traded for a superstar player even though he isnt one yet. Tmac - Almost the same value as Yao? only traded for franchise players? what do you think? JHoward - seems to hold the next highest trade value. While the league is short of quality big men JHoward is a blue collar hard working PF pretty consistent throughout his career. (who do you think teams would be willing to give up for him?) How about MoT? we always talk about him as a major tradeable piece but his contract seems to turn teams off of him. Could be a serviceable scoring PF in the east (maybe a starter) .. who do you think sits at his level. anyone else on our roster that has any trade value?
Not only becuase of that BUT its veryy hard to find a good Center in the NBA but you can find pg & sg's ever where.
well 786 we cant seem to find a good PG? I agree that Yao's potential and contract are very alluring and make him our most tradeable asset. who do think Yao could be traded for? Would we be able to get Duncan? Garnett? JOneil? Kobe? Shaq? Dirk? Amare? JKidd? or any "franchise players" for Yao? I think we could get anyone except Duncan/Garnett/Kobe ... are my expectations too high? but it would also depend on how Yao fit their offense right? Yao/Tmac is too easy (pretty much only for the other teams franchise player if anything) how about MoT? we always talk about trading him but havent gotten anyone to bite.. is he a backup PF? is he an average starting PF (maybe in the east) look at Kenny Thomas/Kurt Thomas
I'd say (though it saddens me to do so) that our 3rd most valuable guy as a trade commodity is Jim Jackson. Very friendly contract, hard worker, good defender, good shooter. He seems to have dispelled many of the concerns teams had about him previously. After that, Juwan Howard, for being a decent PF with a reasonable contract. Pike is probably 5th for being a shooter with a small contract; this last year couldn't have hurt his rep too bad, could it? After that, who would you more likely take, if you had to take one: Nachbar or Taylor?
I dont know about that.. Boki is still an unknown commodity. He could blossom into a great player or continue being a servicable role player. but Pike is a proven sharpshooter coming off a bad season. J
