It is terrible news about the big fella, but IMO, Morey should now look to flip that huge expiring contract and get us someone good. There are lots of teams that may decide to rebuild at the trade deadline and we have a $17.7 million dollar chip on the table. I know it may seem heartless, but give Yao a job in the front office, and if he comes back, sign him next year for the vet minimum. But Morey HAS to flip that contract now....for the good of the organization. Whom do you guys think we could get? Iggy? Aldridge? Nash? Who? And, would they do it, more importantly, would YOU do it? DD
if we can get a legitimate big man who can guard the paint - i would do it, do it... and put my back into it!
This latest injury basically makes him untradeable, expiring contract or none. He literally has no value much like Greg Oden.
Rockets need to trade his contact bottom line... I would rather trade that for Haywood instead of Martin lol!
He has value as an expiring deal. For instance (and we would never do this, nor I), Portland could trade us Roy for him straight up..... Or Iggy could be traded for him. Teams that have deciced to rebuild, and have expensive quality players on their payroll could now do a one for one deal. Heck, we could take a shot at Melo for Yao now.....just for the rest of this year......give Denver Yao, some picks and maybe a young player and take Melo for the rest of this year. Chris Kaman would probably be available for Yao....lots of options. DD
I would do it but all we would be getting back with be trash contracts like Roy's. Blazers offered Batum and Joel P for Iggy and were shot down. We would be getting crap back, it wouldn't be worth it.
DD, you continue to act like the other GMs are foolish enough to engage in this sort of trade. Too much exposure to Carrol Dawson I suppose. Even if this were to be the case, it wouldn't be a one-way deal as the Rox would have to take back trash players or bad contracts to make it work. Their situation is precarious enough as it is so why make things worse when this team is about to enter a most critical point in its history? And for the last time: unless New York has moved to southeast Texas, Carmelo ain't coming here.
The would offer yao a buy out before the went throught dog and pony show of tradeing him. Roy is out of the question he has multiple years and has a ticking time bomb for a knees.
Daryl could be walking a fine line with an expensive player like Iguodala or Kaman. The last thing we want is perpetual mediocrity.
I forgot to add that Iguodala is not available. I posted this in another thread in an article that explained that Philly is not looking to move him.
Clearly you have not been following the NBA. Tmac was traded in the same manner, Kwame Brown for Gasol, lots of big expiring contracts are flipped to teams with buyers remorse.....maybe Memphis decides it overpaid and would want to start over. One never knows, but these deals happen every year. DD
Basically agree. But there probably are a few deals out there. The big obstacle would be taking back salaries you didn't want to get something you did. For example. The Pistons are for sale. Bet they'd love to clear out some combination of Rip, Ben Gordon or Charlie V. That would make them much more attractive to a potential buyer. Is that anything (with a pick) that the Rockets might covet? PHI is interesting in the effect they'd love to get rid of Brand. Not sure how each team would view it but Yao + ~$3.3M is roughly Brand + Iguodala. Perhaps the Cavs would love to get rid of Jamison a year early. Would they part with a pick to have Jamison's cap space in the summer of 2011 instead of 2012? WAS would definitely call about Arenas. Is there something they have to compensate for his contract? Doubt it. But those are the kinds of behind closed doors phone calls that will be made. The Rockets would probably also get a call about Kaman and Baron Davis for Yao and change. Not saying I would do any of this. Just saying the Rockets' phone wouldn't be totally collecting dust.
This is what I would do about the C position http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2aucm7k Houston gets: Nene JR SMith Billups Thabeet Randolph DEN gets: Yao Jefferies Battier NY gets: 2011 1st pick MEM gets: Trade Exception from HOU
EVERY team denies they are trying to trade every player, whether or not they are trying to trade or not. Nobody wants to look too eager.
Def do it. We need to be able to get something, hopefully the big man will not take it personally and give his good faith to this.
An expiring deal has value on the condition that the owner of said contract is willing to take back salaries beyond this year. For example, Tracy McGrady's value = the Rockets willingness to eat Jared Jeffries. Now, it's rare for a team to eat a true poison contract since the fair compensation of that would be probably a superstar and nobody wants to give up that kind of consideration. So, more often than not, we are talking about eating a Kirk Hinrich for a middling pick, or at best eating Jeffries for Hill + pick(s).
