<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Utah Jazz made only one minor deal before Thursday's NBA trade deadline, acquiring veteran big man Alan Henderson from Philadelphia in exchange for a swap of second-round draft picks, and cash consideration going from Philadelphia to Utah. The move, however, is not expected to impact the Jazz's current 14-man roster. That is because Utah is expected to waive Henderson, who has played 34 games and averaged 3.5 points in a mostly reserve role for the Sixers this season. The trade will lead to the Jazz having a better second-round pick, though details on the second-round picks involved were not immediately available.</div> Source Utah is going to waive Henderson, so can a Sixer fan tell me why they traded down 20 spots in the draft for a few hundred thousand dollars?
<div class="quote_poster">J_Ray Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Source Utah is going to waive Henderson, so can a Sixer fan tell me why they traded down 20 spots in the draft for a few hundred thousand dollars?</div> From what I've heard, it's the Sixers that have the right to swap picks with Utah. We have the Knicks pick this year (who may make the playoffs). But seriously...why?
<div class="quote_poster">C.K. Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">From what I've heard, it's the Sixers that have the right to swap picks with Utah. We have the Knicks pick this year (who may make the playoffs). But seriously...why?</div> That's still sort of silly trade though, Utah has a top 5 record in the league while the Knicks are barely battling for the playoffs. This would also make no sense for Utah to take on a salary on a guy they're waiving and give the Sixers a chance to get a better pick. Edit: Jonathan Givony from Draftexpress posted this at another forum I go to, this will help clear everything up..... <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I got a few emails from angry Sixers fans asking to explain why Billy King just made the trade he did. I wrote something out on their message board at RealGM, but thought I would share it with you if you wanted to understand it too. I'm not using it any further so it's all yours. I just spoke with a source in Utah's front office to clear up the 2nd round pick swap as part of the Alan Henderson trade from Philly to Utah... Barring some sort of catastrophe that sees the Jazz lose the rest of their games and the Knicks win the rest of theirs...Utah will get New York's 2007 2nd rounder (and not Philly's, because they traded their 07 2nd rounder away already last year in return for Bobby Jones) as a part of this trade. In return, Philly gets under the luxury tax, which will likely save them a couple of million dollars. We don't know the exact figures of the BRI yet (and therefore the savings), but we do know already what figure teams need to get under to AVOID paying the tax, AND get the income that is distributed amongst non-luxury tax teams. Last year that figure was 2.38 million dollars. The Jazz had an extra roster spot and room to spare under the luxury tax, which helped facilitate this trade. The Sixers sent cash over to cover the rest of Henderson's salary. So essentially, the Jazz move up 19 spots (according to our current projections) for "free", and the Sixers move down 19 spots and likely save themselves a few million dollars. Just another fantastic example of how the luxury tax is doing exactly what it was intended to, which is create a “hard cap” that teams will do almost anything to get under. We’ve seen numerous trades this year that reflect that. To see where the teams would be drafting if the season ended today (before the lottery is conducted), see here: http://draftexpress.com/mymock.php?page=official&year=2007 And to read about which transactions already occurred to get us to where we are now: http://draftexpress.com/transactions.php To read more about the luxury tax, see Larry Coon's FAQ: http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#16</div>
Okay, here's the latest description, I guess we were wrong KOC said this: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Sixers obtained the right to swap second-rounders with Utah in next June's NBA Draft, and agreed to decrease the protection they have on a future Philadelphia second-rounder (to be used no sooner than 2008, but by 2010) that the Jazz had previously acquired. But because Philly's current record is worse than Utah, and its pick this year is bound to be higher than the Jazz's, the 76ers probably won't want to swap anyway.</div> That being said, this trade was pointless for Utah
Okay, so basically we just said, we don't want you anymore Henderson, go to Utah? Um, okay. That's weird
