Rumorpress says so: I don’t mind Harrington in the abstract, but in practice I don’t see how we can make this work. It just exchanges one set of problems for another set of problems of pretty much equal badness. As I posted last week, the Bulls' financial issues and crowded roster at nearly every position, including PF, makes it really hard to find a good deal. The best I can figure is to try and divert Harrington to a third team that has something we'd actually like and could improve our finances. Just to try and make something that’d work financially and on the court for us, how about this? Bulls trade Kirk and Thabo to the Warriors who trade Harrington to the Clippers and CJ Watson back to us. The Clippers trade Camby to us. This works for the Bulls because we get a useful center in Camby and one who will save us money (he will cost $10.65M next year, while Kirk+Thabo will cost about $12.5M. So that gives us $2M extra to work with under the luxury tax threshold, which makes it more possible to either 1) resign Gordon or 2) accept something back in a sign and trade or 3) sign a replacement for him. 1- Rose, Miles 2- Gordon, Hughes 3- Deng, Noc 4- Tyrus, Gooden 5- Camby, Noah I’d be mildly optimistic that the Clippers would go for this because Harrington seems like a real PF who would compliment Kamen better than Camby will. And he’s a little cheaper, which always warms Donald Sterling’s heart. Golden State, I think, would like this deal. It’s not a perfect deal for us, because we end up with probably not enough minutes to go around in the front court, but we do end up with a somewhat better team on a more solid financial footing.
I have Kirk Hinrich for Al Harrington and Thabo Sefolosha and Drew Gooden for Al Harrington as the two potential trades. I can't see the Bulls trading BOTH Hinrich and Sefalosha for Harrington. I'd rather try to get a Greg Oden, Andrew Bynum, or Amare Stoudemire on the cheap (maybe trade Luol Deng?) if their teams do poorly. If not, I'd rather try to trade Hinrich or Gooden for a Joel Pryzbilla or Rasheed Wallace type player. Creating capspace for 2010 to sign Tyson Chandler, which a Hinrich for Harrington swap would accomplish.
Those guys aren't coming on the cheap! Or on the expensive! Can't trade Gooden for Harrington because that wipes our the ability to re-sign Gordon (luxury tax), or even take back a sign and trade. Plus, if it came to that, I'd rather just re-sign Gooden, who's bigger and better than Harrington.
Well you can definitely cross Bynum off that "on the cheap" list now that he's agreed to a 4 year/$58M extension.
Pretty interesting idea. That would be an incredibly solid team in Rose and Thomas pan out sooner rather than later. not that it would EVER happen anyway, but do any teams even want Deng anymore?
I'd assume Toronto likes him still. Maybe, if they end up sucking, and Bosh says, "I'm outta here" in 2010, we might be able to trade Deng for Bosh within the next 2 years. The Grizzlies seemed to like Deng a lot, but I doubt they'd go for him with Gay now. Utah/Miami like Deng as well, but I can't see us working out a reasonable trade with either of those two.
I remember arguing that the Bulls should have used their ~$25M in cap space to sign both Gooden and Harrington instead of Ben Wallace a few years back. It'd be ironic if they end up having traded for the two of them, as well as costly. If we had signed the two, we wouldn't have Hughes and his big contract, and we wouldn't be looking at losing Gordon or Hinrich or Nocioni to keep them.
