I would like anyone to show me a trade that works under the current guidelines that could get us paul. for the life of me, I cannot get one to work out.
A lot of trades can't happen until July 1st due to contracts. The ESPN trade machine says that Joel can't be traded at this moment, and very few people on New Orleans as well. Yet, Joel can be traded this summer.
the trade that Quick was hinting at, was Andre and Joel for CP3. The contracts only have to match up this season, and then andre and joel could expire the following for NO's much needed cost saving.
Ta daaah! It WORKS. It's not remotely LIKELY... Because THE HORNETS ARE NOT TRADING CHRIS PAUL. (But hey: we could throw in all our Euros and a bunch of Paul Allen's cash, and ten draft picks, and...) Rationale for the Pistons: Ben Gordon was just a terrible mistake, especially with Rip still around, and Stuckey can't play PG... yet. Have a veteran backcourt of Miller and Rip with Stuckey as sixth man of the year, trade off either or both Rip and Andre to a contender at mid-season. Rationale for the Hornets: they need a scorer in the worst way, and they don't need Andre Miller. They get to dump Okafor and Mo Pete. Swap in Bayless and Rudy for Martell, if they prefer. Or even go this far (although I'm not sure I would.)
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2dj78le Where is it at on the likely scale? "Not Very Damn" Why would they even consider it? Drop in $4 million in salary instantly, plus a potential savings of about $4 million additional since West's contract is only guaranteed for $500k in 2010-11. Why wouldn't they? Mo Williams is an additional not great contract in exchange for dropping Posey's.
Seems the easiest way is to agree in principle at the draft, and then make the deal official July 1st, when Paul's BYC goes away. Monty has said he wants to run there, so I can see a package around Paul and West for Batum and Aldridge as the main pieces. With potentially Rudy, Bayless, Miller, Posey, etc. included.
Frankly I find Collison imminently more likely to be traded, shipping him out with a rotten contract (Okafor most likely) and getting back some talent at the wing positions a pick and serviceable big man. Paul is a great goal, but there's just no way this is going to happen unless Roy is on the block and even then I don't see it happening.
New Orleans has nothing outside of Okafor in the middle as it is. Will shipping him out for a wing player bring Chris Paul any closer to the playoffs, let alone a title? I also don't understand your Roy reference. Why would NO want to take on Roy's contract if they are rumored to be willing to get rid of Paul, who is on a shorter contract?
Another trade that would work after July 1 would be Paul and Okafor for Przbilla, Miller, Oden, and Pendergraph and Cunningham (or only one of those two if that's what New Orleans wants). Of course we could give them as many future draft picks as they wanted.
I love Chris Paul but i'm such a huge Oden homer that I wouldn't want to give him up in a trade for Paul.
Oden/Bayless/Miller/Pryzbilla for Paul/Okafor... Paul/Koponen? Roy/Fernandez Batum/Webster Aldridge/Cunningham Camby/Okafor
Start with Brandon Roy..... Not that I necessarily would, but that is the type of deal it would take.......
Any trade proposal assumes that the pending sale of the team is contingent on Shinn first getting rid of Paul....which in turn assumes the guy buying the team is a drooling idiot. >>>IF<<< Paul is traded, it will be after the new owner takes control and brings in his own front office people. He isn't going to trust Shinn and a bunch of lame-ducks to do it!
