Hickson is not worth more than MLE

But if we could find a player like Pekovic and still keep Hickson as a back-up PF; we would be in awesome shape!

 

But we can't because of Hickson's cap hold.

 

We actually have a player on our D league team that had a 14.2 PER as a seldom used C for Toronto last year. I personally think he would add a lot to our future

 

Unless we were able to find a player like that via trade before deadline.

 

That a team is willing to give up for a player they likely can't re-sign in the off season

 

And there's the rub.

 

Yeah it sucks and management is going to have some serious decisions this summer.

 

Alabi? I was thinking about him yesterday -- laying in the weeds and if we trade Hickson and filler we can call him up. And I would.

 

This is the time we need Ha Sing Sing more than ever!

 

Or this trade deadline

 

I still think trading Hickson before the deadline is going to be a really tough sell. His contract isn't at the amount for a team to give us quality.

 

I agree wholeheartedly, but if the team has decided it needs to move on, a late first or whatever is better than nothing

 

The one team I think maybe interested, would be the 76ers. I think they are willing to give up Hawes for Hickson and Jefferies (just to cut and shed salaries).

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=cyrrkk8

If they renounce Hickson; they would have a salary of 39 mil; which would give them 21 mil to toss at some free agents.

Or they could resign hickson for 8-9 mil and resign Bynum. That's a pretty decent front court.

 

I think this might be more of an Aldridge issue than a possitve for Hickson. If we look back a few years.... Pryz, Camby, and now Hickson. What do they all have in common? All were VERY good rebounders playing next to Aldridge.

 

Yeah, if we could line up a 3 team deal where we receive somebody like Marc Gasol and a nice secondary player and Memphis clears contracts and gets picks (rumor is they want to go cheap) I could see us trading Aldridge. I'm not saying we have to go that route, but of our two starting caliber PF's, Aldridge is infinitely more tradeable thanks to his skills, size, and below-max contract with Bird Rights.

Hickson isn't nearly as good, but the end deal could work where Hickson gives you 60% of the productivity of Aldridge at PF but we also get 300% the productivity with a new Center acquisition (and maybe somebody decent for our bench). Normally it's a bad deal to trade talent for depth, but Hickson makes it somewhat unique in that we almost certainly lose him for nothing this summer if we don't plan on signing him to a good deal.

 

Why on earth not? If Portland tells his agent they will not re-sign him in the off season he loses nothing by getting traded except the possibility of some high profile games in the playoffs to increase his value.

 

Well, poop. You may have a point. I hate when that happens.

 

That's an amazing stat. I wouldn't have guessed it.