Kay. Feel free to waste 4 years of your life then waiting for Davis. Hopefully he doesn't get injured in that time If you were a team like Philly, then yeah sure get Davis over Harden. But the Rox have been rebuilding a couple of years and now have a roster that's just 1 or 2 pieces away from contending. Getting Davis now and then waiting 4 years for him to develop would be monumentally stupid, as Dwight will already be on the decline by then and all our young players will already be in their late 20's or early 30's.
No, I love Unibrow's game, might be a future MVP, but this isn't a center's league anymore. The days of Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, Shaq & KAJ are long gone. 2 & 3 guards rule this league now, that's why I keep Harden.
No way. Harden makes our team better. Davis hasn't made the Pelicans a playoff team. Whether that's due to his age and experience or the fact that his position isn't generally one that creates for the rest of the team. I mean the power forward position just doesn't make everyone else on the team better. Just look at Love in Minnesota. He's a great player but his greatness doesn't make his team better. But I bet you, you stick Harden over there, and he would make them better.
A LOF who joined this site in March 2009? And what did he say about Lin in this thread. You are the first person who mentioned the name Lin here. Are you really this dumb?
Not if the Pelicans have cap room to absorb the contract. They have $48.6M in commitments for 2014-15 and the projected cap is $62.9M. Based on that, they could certainly do a straight up swap of Davis for Harden and could even do it for Dwight if they declined their qualifying offer to Darrius Miller (very likely anyway) and not exercise their option on Luke Babbit. I don't think you do it for Harden because you need an elite wing/guard to win. However, if you could do it for Howard and one of the PFs (with filler coming back from NO) and even a 1st, you absolutely pull the trigger. Let's say the Pelicans would theoretically decline on Miller and Babbit and trade Davis and Withey for Howard and T Jones and a 1st round pick (or two or the Knicks 2nd, whatever I still do it). In that scenario, the Rockets would have about $16.87M in cap space. Essentially enough for a maximum offer with some (like trading Jeremy Lin for nothing or just a cap, but bad contract) manuevering. Let's assume Lin would be gone in that scenario and you get back no player of value. Just a straight salary dump. Go out and then sign Carmelo Anthony. Team could still be: PG: Pat Beverly (Isiah Canaan) SG: James Harden (Chandler Parsons, Troy Daniels/Francisco Garcia) SF: Carmelo Anthony (Chandler Parsons, Robert Covington) PF: Anthony Davis (Donatas Motiejunas) C: Omer Asik (Jeff Withey) Defensively you are very, very good. You have multiple lineup combinations to go big or small and could survive a starter injury to any position, save PG, and still be an elite team with good options at every position. You have the best interior defense in the league and two of the best wing scorers. Parsons becomes the best 6th man in the league and allows Harden and Melo to rest as needed and never run down, while at the same time giving you the option of running all three with Davis/Asik and giving teams fits with three guys that can create and be matchup nightmares. That would be downright deadly. The best part would be that you could re-sign Asik for a reasonable (cap number around $10M a year) price without much affect on your cap/tax situation and then probably still sign Chandler (somewhere $9-10M) without tax implications, assuming cap/tax hikes to around $64M and something $74M or higher, which are both likely. Probably would be better to just trade (or sign and trade) Chandler at that point for an elite PG or top draft pick, but you could keep that top 6 of Harden, Melo, Davis, Asik, Beverly and Parsons around going through 2015-16 and still stay under the tax line.
