<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After failing in their efforts to acquire swingman Corey Maggette in the summer, Denver has continued to express interest in a multiplayer trade with the Clippers, sources said Thursday. General Manager Elgin Baylor does not comment on trade talks, but the Nuggets are willing to include guard J.R. Smith as the centerpiece of their proposal for Maggette, the sources said. Forward Joe Smith also is among the players Denver has considered moving for Maggette, who led the Clippers in scoring in the 2004-05 season. Others teams have also contacted the Clippers about Maggette. At this point, however, the Clippers are not interested in trading the seven-year veteran, but things could change. In Wednesday's 112-104 season-opening loss to the Phoenix Suns , Maggette played fewer than seven minutes and did not score. Maggette suffered from a bout of food poisoning and received fluids intravenously at a Phoenix-area hospital before the game, but "it was coach's decision not to play me," Maggette said. "I told him before the game that I could go. I made myself available for the team."</div> Source
Maggette could put this team over the top in my opinion. Right now they are ok, but besides Carmelo they don't have a consistent perimeter player. JR Smith is aight, but he isn't a player like Maggette. I hope the Nuggets get him, it would make them contenders.
