...is supposed to be very available (according to Chad Ford, so take that as you want). We better be making an offer. Right now he looks like crap but I have a feeling he'd look a lot better on a better team, and we could also take Ilyasova off their hands if that's what it took.
Poison Pill contract right now. Awfully difficult to trade for, unless you get a 3rd team helping. http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2013/12/trading-larry-sanders.html
How would you do it when someone who has a PPP is always so hard to get? It's one thing to want it, it's another to realistically and feasibly do it.
LOL $44m/4 years starting next season. He's the classic example of a head case who got his shit together in a contract year to get an extension. Read the SI article on him that was written prior to his meltdown this year. Dude has serious issues, and a ton of guaranteed money isn't going to make those go away.
You could do Wright/Williams/Leonard/Claver for Sanders/Ridnour. I don't think they take that. If you use CJ instead of Leonard, it still works money-wise.
3 out of the 4 years in the NBA Sanders has had a negative OWS. http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sandela01.html Last year was an aberration to get a contract. He's Andrew Bynum, but with less talent.
He's not in the game for offense. IIRC (and I don't quite remember, so I could be way off) I thought he had some of the best defensive 1-on-1 stats in the league. I don't know that he'll ever shoot 50% again unless he buys some moves from someone, but he's a walking double-double that plays some of the best D in the league.
He did last year. I wouldn't pay $11m/per for the next for years for a guy that had one solid season on one end of the court. He's a 56% FT shooter, too, so you can't even play him at the end of close games.
And yeah, he probably won't perform to his contract. But would you pay him 7M/yr? 8? I think the market shows that outstanding defensive/rebounding bigs make way more than MLE. Even RoLo coming off his "soft" season and a 5ppg/3rpg in 14 minutes line got a contract at about the MLE.
Even during his "great" season last year, Sanders only got 27 mpg for a bad team. The Bucks would probably love to get rid of this headcase and his contract. If Paul Allen agrees to take on the contract, maybe you do it if you can get him for next to nothing?
Paul Allen just won a Super Bowl, and probably wants to win an NBA Championship too. Larry Sanders is probably the best player they could actually get if they thought he could return to form. Chemistry is supposed to be so great, so surely they could support one knucklehead.
Sanders and Ilyasova for everyone not in the top 8 (Robinson, Barton, Leonard, Claver, Watson, Wright. Crabbe) works.
Funny thing is, he's not really an outstanding rebounder for a big. He's only had one year with a per/36 over 10, and that was last year. He has a career TRB% of 15.8, and is at 14.7 this year. For comparison, LMA has a career TRB% of 13.8, yet he's at 17.1 this year.
