Merged: TIme to work the Trade Machine! [Possible Chris Paul trades]

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Does that answer your question?

 

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So the Blazers could give Patty Mills a one year S&T for 1.7mil and use him in the deal?

 

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Yes...assuming the Hornets would agree to that as well.

 

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Does this make sense for everyone? Was messing around and thought this might work for all the teams.

Edit* looking at it now, we maybe giving up too much.

3 way with NY/POR/NO

NO receives young players and 3 great expirings. Portland receives CP3. NY gives up Eddy's fat contract and turns into a similar painful one with Emeka but he would be a good center to put alongside Amare since Amare is better at PF. They also get Rudy who would fit that system nicely. The only issue is that Emekas contract might eat up room for Melo if thats what they eye.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=23ckvug

NO Outgoing
CP3
Okafor
Posey

NO Incoming
Miller
Pryz
Batum
Bayless
Eddy Curry

POR Outgoing
Miller
Pryz
Rudy
Bayless
Batum

POR Incoming
CP3
Posey

NY Outgoing
Eddy Curry

NY Incoming
Okafor
Rudy

 

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Well the reason they might is because constructing the trade that way would assure NOH saves every penny they possibly could in the +/- 125% trade matching rule. And Mills would be just one year.

 

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No. NY would not do that. Not even close.

 

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I would think that they'd rather have Cunningham (Who Monty personally worked with), and one of Babbitt/Williams. The salary difference is really minuscule in this case, and Cunningham+Babbitt/Williams are just so much better in terms of talent and prospects.

 

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Or cunningham (.7mil) and mills (S&T 1mil)

 

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Again, it depends on which player NO would rather have. (Assuming the rest of the framework follows through)

I personally think Williams and Babbitt are both much much better prospects than Mills.

 

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I would do this and give them all expiring contracts and tell GO we will max him out next summer in a *Wink wink deal

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=38vzcxa

POR OUT
Oden, Przybilla and Miller (No Batum), add in cash and draft picks

POR IN
Paul and Okafor

Everyone including Oden can be an expiring contract if that is what they want. And if they want to re-up Oden, they can


PG Paul, Bayless, Mills or Johnson
SG Roy, Matthews, Fernandez, Williams
SF Batum, Cunningham, Babbitt
PF LMA, Pendergraph
C Okafor, Camby

still leaves you with Rudy to deal

 

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My feelings are that any trade I would like from a Blazer perspective involves our expirings, Bayless/Rudy/Babbit/Williams as prospects, picks+cash, and 1 only of Batum/Oden/Aldridge as the centerpiece young talent. It's similar to Minny's KG for Big Al + expirings + picks+ Telfair/Gomes etc, that seems like the formula that realistically gets something like this done. I personally would rather that the centerpiece be Aldridge instead of Batum or Oden, I just like both of their games better. I know some are concerned because Paul said he would like to play with Roy and LMA, but if we win I don't think it's an issue.

If NOH trades Paul and goes into rebuild mode what are the chances West sticks around? He's got a player option next year that's actually under his value, so he's probably likely to opt out no matter the fate of Paul, and if the Hornets are in full on youth/rebuild mode they can't think his chances of sticking around are all that high. We've all though that Aldridge becomes redundant in any Hornets trade because of West but the more I think about it, the more I think the Hornets would like Aldridge so they could then in turn trade West for even more assets in their rebuild before they lose him for nothing next summer.

Something I think is realistic, but has to wait until after Aug 7th because of the signing restrictions:

Aldridge, Bayless, Rudy, Babbitt, E. Williams, Miller, and Pryz + picks and cash
for
Paul, Okafor, and Posey

It barely works because of Aldridge's BYC status, but it does, and Cunningham could be included as well I believe for a small bit of added value. Like I said if that happens I think NOH immediately starts looking for a trade destination for West because without Paul he's unlikely to stay a Hornet for more than 1 season.

NOH has a Collison/Thornton/Aldridge young core with alot of young guys to test out and they save alot of money over the next 3 years.

It leaves us with a lineup of:

Paul/Roy/Batum/Camby/Oden
with
Mattews and Okafor the main men off the bench with anyone left of Johnson/Mills/Pend/Cunningham having to fill in the gaps.

Next offseason try and do something like Carl Landry for the full MLE, and I think Paul would almost be a lock to stick around.

 

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OMFG. I hadnt thought about that regarding West. Great insight gives me wood frankly. Repped.

 

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We would have no cap room. Great thought, but can't do it per the CBA.

 

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NJN will trade Lopez around the same time that Orlando trades Dwight Howard i.e. 2021 or there abouts.

 

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You can't possibly be a "Trader" as a Trader would know there is no way to "max" out a player with no cap space, and besides, "wink, wink" deals for big money are extremely risky.

 

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But JPEC and Miller make up for Posey and Camby is two years shorter then Okafor and a better player by far that Monty is familiar with. I don't agree with your assumptions. This trade that I've been saying since the Deng rumors is the move. JPEC pays right away with insurance for however long he doesn't play. Miller expires next year and Camby the year after. You can throw in rooks in S& T or just the draft rights, euros, cash, picks or even Pendy and Dante.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=25ns7wh

I don't agree with your assumption about Camby and I sure as fuck don't care what he or any other player thinks about their new environs this is the NBA.

 

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Ok totally new angle.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=22uswyj

Why Portland does it CP3 and I'm done with that.

Why New Orleans does it MEGA cap relief from Michael Redd who might even be useful if he recovers next year. They get Aldridge to replace West who will likely leave in awhile. They also get immediate cap relief from JPEC and just absolute shit tons of cap relief from Miller, Redd and Joel all expiring next year.

Why Milwaukie does it. They get good value out of red in a very solid PF to pair with Bogut creating one of the best front courts in the east to go along with Brandon Jennings.


Or to sweeten the deal for Milwaukie you throw in young talent in Dante and Rudy in this variant. Of course you could sweeten the pot with picks and cash as both teams have cash strapped owners:

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2497the

NOH is looking at 30+ MILLION in cap relief next summer getting rid of Okafor and Posey. Shoring up the PF spot which West would likely abandon next summer and getting young talent in Bayless. A further variant has Milwaukie sending Delfino incase the crunch at SF is too unbearable for NOH you could also send them Dante instead of MIL.

Portland:

PG: Paul/Johnson/Mills
SG: Roy/Matthews/Williams
SF: Batum (yay!)/Matthews/Babbit
PF: Okafor/Camby/Pendy
C: Oden/Okafor/Camby

I think I like that better then sending out Batum. Thoughts? And please more in depth then yuck over Okafor and Oden would that REALLY be a deal breaker over getting CP3? The defense, rebounding and length on that team is insane as is the scoring.

 

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I still am unsure that NO wants to pay Aldridge's contract. It is the same money they are trying to dump in Okafor's deal.

However, if for some reason they think Aldridge is worth that money and value what he can do more than Okafor, then you bring up an intersting point about West. I didn't know he has a player option.

Right now, the Hornets likely aren't spending a lot of time worrying about West. They figure, they have to fight one fire at a time. Once they make a decision to trade Paul, then they might start thinking about the rebuild in earnest.

As you point out, West gets restless if Paul leaves. Doesn't mean he would go for sure, but now he becomes a big flight risk with the player option - depending on the lockout.

If the Hornets expand the trade and grab Aldridge, they could turn around and try to trade West to a team with cap space (Nets, Thunder) and take back less in salary. This would reduce their salary level even further. West for Favors cuts the salary in half. Of course, they could make a trade like this even if they don't bring in Aldridge. They have to want him for the big contract he has.

 

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Outside of the obvious difficulty of 3-team trades etc. I see one immediate problem, both of those trades add approx 6 million to NOH payroll this year. That puts them over the luxury tax and could end up costing them something like 10mil in extra payroll and another 3-4mil in a lost tax share, remember any team under the tax gets a share of all the luxury tax dollars teams over the cap have to pay. Take the 1st trade and include Songaila and J. Wright to the Bucks and you make it better though, it keeps them from going over the tax, and both players are expiring so it's not to big of a pill to swallow for the Bucks (although you couldn't throw in Dante and Rudy to sweeten it like in your 2nd trade).

 

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Done:

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2focqkf

Again Hornets are getting 3 million in cash from PA as are the Bucks. The Bucks owners are in worse shape then Shinn IIRC. That might be the biggest hesitation. Although giving up Red for nothing when they can take back a much smaller salary for a much better player and they might be interested.

Also at this point every possible permutation of a two team trade has been chewed like a cud.