Crazy Trade Idea -Yao Ming

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  1. Sug

    Sug Well-Known Member

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    I know it would probably never happen, but what if...

    He is a very good player, clearly has health issues and is in the last year of his contract worth 17mil. We do however run the perfect offense for him to be in, a very slow plodding half court game. Teams have to double him, there is no way around it.

    He is currently limited to 24 minutes per game by the Houston staff. Now just thinking here in regards to making our team a little more playoff ready.

    Joel, Miller, Rudy to Houston for

    Yao and Brooks

    http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=238hmyg

    I was bored and reading about how Rick is having trouble using Yao is Houston. Whereas Joel does not need any touches on offense and they would still have a nice PG in Miller. We would get a serious spark plug in Brooks and a devastating low post player in Yao.
     
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    Did I really just read this, and then post about it?
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Nope.

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    why on earth would Houston agree to this?
     
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    OP did say the idea was "crazy".

    How about the same deal for Dwight Howard? waddaya think? Worth a thread?
     
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    Did you really just equate Yao to Dwight? Thanks for turning yourself into the crazy one ;-)
     
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    There is no way they would even consider it for a second.
     
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    We're all 'CRAZY'! You were man enough to admit it.
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    calling it crazy is an insult to all the crazy trades that ABM has come up with, or the other nutty trade scenarios blazer fans have created over the years. This one is "needs to be institutionalized" crazy.
     
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    Yao, when healthy, is not that much worse than Howard. Obviously, Howard is much more valuable considering he's much more durable...but attempting to trade for Yao without putting Roy or Oden in the mix is still fairly crazy.
     
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    Yao is 30 and has major issues with his feet. I'm done with injury prone bigs.
     
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    Yao is limited to 24 minutes a game and that's not going to change this season, reportedly. Houston is going to struggle to make the playoffs.

    I don't think that they would value him at an incredibly high level--nowhere near Dwight Howard--but the three guys they'd get back in this deal would be all but worthless and it would turn into a salary dump...

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    I like this trade. If Cho doesn't get this done he should be fired!
     
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    He has us getting Brooks too...
     
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    Oh.

    Snap.

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    Is this the YMEC? Seems like they should be trading it to a team that wants to cut salary, and I don't think that's us.

    I don't think he's all that valuable (although more valuable than RLEC, certainly), and I don't think we are the right trading partner for Houston.

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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    This gave me a headache.
     
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  18. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    How did that trade make it through the machine? Joel/Miller/Rudy don't even match up with Yao's huge contract, let alone Yao AND Brooks.
     
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    Our #1 target really should be:

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    I agree, but is Cleveland in blow-it-up mode yet?
     
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