Okafor... would Blazers be interested?

would rather try to do a trade where we move a Wes or Wallace for Varajeo, Varajeo's contract is much more reasonable for what do does. Not sure if varajeo is available. We could do something like Camby and Wes and Nolan for Andy and Jamison (playin well but an expiring) and Sessions?

 

IMO this team isn't a contender, so trading role players for role players still doesn't make us a contender.....IMO.

 

The prospect of getting Okafor excites me about as much as getting Crawford did...

 

If this was the old CBA and we were over the cap the next two years I’d be in favor of a Camby for Okafor swap.

But right now we have the flexibility of adding a free agent in the offseason. Obviously the dream scenario is adding Deron Williams, but even without that pipe dream cap space could give us a useful player. I’d rather keep that flexibility then lose basically all of it by assuming Okafor’s large contract.

Even if we don’t sign a free agent, Okafor would make it more difficult to retain Batum and Wallace. I’d rather keep those two with a band aid center then lose one of them but have Okafor.

 

The Hornets center I would look at adding is Kaman. No I don’t think he’ll be close to an all-star again but he could provide good role playing minutes for us at center. He is much better offensively then Camby, he could let Thomas and LaMarcus play at PF. His contract expires at the end of the year which would give us the flexibility of going in a different direction if he doesn’t fit well or resigning him to a reasonable contract if we like his play.

With as horrible as Felton is I’d possibly consider trading them straight up. Or if Camby stays injured send him out.

 

I personally really don't like Kaman. He is good offensively but slow and bumbling on defense. Also is a black hole down low. I would much rather have the rhino or Johnson on the court then Kaman.

 

I like that idea a lot more. There isn't much incentive for the Hornets to do this deal, though, other than saving a million bucks in salary. I mean, there's no incentive not to--the Hornets are going to suck this year. But Kaman isn't chopped liver. You probably have to throw in a second round draft pick or something of that sort along with Camby.

Again, it's swapping role players of similar worth. But it's swapping old role players for younger ones.

I don't see how we could swap Felton for Kaman. We'd have no NBA-worth PG. (Insert joke here about Felton and how we have no NBA-worth PG anyway.)

 

We could offer a second round pick, maybe Babbitt, and/or some cash. Ditching Babbit would save us cap space next offseason. It could be $10 million over a 5 year contract, which could be the difference in keeping Batum along with adding another player.

At this rate Felton would be addition by subtraction. No I've never been an advocated for that strategy with Bonzi/Rasheed/ZBo but Felton has been the worst starting PG in the NBA. If he can't improve his play he doesn't deserve to be on the court. Patty Mills would be an improvement. If Felton improves then yeah we don’t include him in this trade, but if he doesn’t improve and we have a hole in the rotation at center it’s something on the table we should consider.

 

I'd say he's been as good as roughly 50% of lotto players picked in the last 20 years. Drafting in the lotto does not assure you future success. You need to be really, really shitty for several years.

 

I would rather have Chris Johnson. Please no to Emeka.

 

You'd rather have Chris Johnson? Do you see something were missing?

 

He's just too overpaid.

I like the prospect of bringing in Freeland this summer over Emeka.

 

I don't understand why we need Okafor, IMO. I like Craig Smith and he's much cheaper. If we are looking for a good compliment with Aldridge; then we need to set our sites on a Noah, Varejo or Haslem.