im sure daryle can do a three team trade with the grizzlies give them for a 2nd round pick eat some salary lol... Honestly I have no idea what to trade. But remember he did give orlando rafer 2 years 6 mil for lowry 2 mil 2 years...and gave the 30th pick in the draft to grizzlies and made them eat the salary lol...he can figure something out. Save charlotte some money heh
Wow. You'd put Isaiah Thomas to shame if you were a general manager. Gortat's not worth his contract (which is, in case you were unaware, for 4 more years) and we'd be hamstrung by it and hurt our salary cap flexibility. I wouldn't give up anyone.
Pass......I would trade Andersen straight up nothing more , nothing less but the salaries dont match...
Trade Hayes + Anderson for Gortat! Yao / Gortat Scola / Hill Battier / Ariza Martin / Budinger Brooks / Lowry
The only way you go for Gortat now is if you believe he could be the starting center if you have to rebuild with Yao out for good. Otherwise, just let him be. DD
The only player we could possibly give up for Gortat would be Trevor Ariza straight up for him. We cannot afford to dump any expirings or any young talent or picks on a MLE type player. We need all our picks, all our young talent, and we need to increase our expiring contract value by trading expirings for expirings to a team like Indy that needs to save a few million dollars. That way at the deadline, we can go all in for a deal for Paul, Okafor, and Posey, all for expirings and a young player or two, and a draft pack or two. We cannot accomplish this by trading away expirings. IF New Orleans is really in a world of hurt by the deadline, our salary relief plus young talent may be enough to get them to move.
People like you get on my nerves? What are the NBA encyclopedia? Do you know everyones name, where they live, stats? Don't be a smartass.
And people like you, who dont understand pretty obvious hints, get on MY nerves. THIS A REPOST. They just discussed THE POLISH HAMMER in a thread titled, "Is the POLISH HAMMER a possibility", like 2 days ago. When this thread was created the other thread was still on the first page, right below it. Get it?
After reading over other responses and thinking about it myself, I've come up with a list of players that I'd trade and those I wouldn't based on a few rules: 1) We trade away no young nucleus players. 2) We trade away no expiring players. 3) We only make a trade for Gortat if we doubt Yao will be good enough after his contract expires, as Gortat would make a fine starting center at about the right salary level. Players we do not trade for Gortat: Andersen (expiring, essentially) Shane Battier (expiring) Aaron Brooks (young nucleus and talent level) Chase Budinger (young nucleus) Jordan Hill (young nucleus) Jared Jeffries (expiring) Kyle Lowry (young nucleus) Kevin Martin (young nucleus and talent level) Louis Scola (talent level) Yao Ming (talent level and expiring) Players we could offer in any combination for Gortat: Trevor Ariza (salary match) Chuck Hayes (salary match) Patrick Patterson (non-essential youth for us) Jermaine Taylor (non-essential youth for us) Mike Harris (throw-in) Alexander Johnson (throw-in) Our 1st round pick in 2 years, or 2nd round pick next year (not NY picks/swap) Conclusion: Would Orlando want these players and/or picks? I say probably not, as they could get much more for Gortat from a team that doesn't already have Yao Ming and Jordan Hill. There is an argument that we have to give up something to get something in return, and this is generally true. But the risk of giving up on a young piece of our nucleus for a non-star player (in case Yao doesn't work out) seems like higher risk than necessary for this level of potential gain. Sure, he'd make a fine starting center, but our focus should probably be on securing a star player now and then looking for a Yao replacement later if that becomes necessary. Giving away our youth at this stage would make our Plan A (acquiring a star) for team growth much more difficult.
