http://www.cbssports.com/nba/blog/k...ent-rockets-make-asik-lin-available-in-trades Ken Berger NBA Insider Sources: Confident Rockets make Asik, Lin available in trades June 30, 2013 8:47 pm ET Emboldened by their pursuit of free agent Dwight Howard, the Rockets have called several teams and made Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin available in potential trades, league sources told CBSSports.com. Houston has secured the first meeting with Howard shortly after the NBA's free-agent negotiating period begins at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday. A contingent led by GM Daryl Morey and former Rocket Hakeem Olajuwon is scheduled to meet with Howard in Los Angeles. The Mavericks, Hawks and Warriors also have meetings scheduled with Howard, and the Lakers will get to make the final pitch on Tuesday, sources said. The Rockets are oozing with confidence that they will lure Howard from the Lakers, and are making contingency plans to construct the team around him. "They already have him, if you talk to them," one league source said. If the Rockets land Howard, Asik would become expendable. One potential destination that rival executives have identified is Philadelphia, where former Rockets executive Sam Hinkie is the Sixers' new general manager. Hinkie was part of the Houston front office that scored both Asik and Lin with backloaded offer sheets as restricted free agents last summer. If the Knicks (Lin) and Bulls (Asik) had chosen to match the respective offer sheets, they would've had to structure their deals with $15 million "balloon" payments in the third year. But the Rockets only needed to account for the average of the three-year, $25.1 million deals -- $8.375 million per year, a manageable number for a starting center and point guard, respectively. Rival teams say the Rockets are making Lin available, as well, though they'd have to get a starting point guard in return. As part of their cap-clearing maneuvers to land Howard, Houston waived Aaron Brooks and Carlos Delfino on Sunday. The Rockets are off the hook for Delfino's $3 million salary, which was non-guaranteed. Teams believe the Rockets will move both Asik and Lin if they close the deal with Howard this week. Lin, whose acquisition last summer was heralded as a coup, was not invited to Houston's pitch meeting with Howard, sources said. The final order of business to clear cap room for Howard -- whose signing, if he agrees to go to Houston, wouldn't be official until July 10 -- was accomplished Sunday when the Rockets agreed to trade Thomas Robinson to Portland. Houston will get two future second-round picks and the rights to Kostas Papanikolaou and Marko Todorovic, league sources confirmed. The deal, which sheds Robinson's $6.9 million guaranteed over the next two seasons, can't be made official until July 10, but it clears the final cap room needed to offer Howard a four-year max deal.
This has been mentioned already in other threads. But since you started an Asik thread, there's already a report that the Rockets think the Sixers will take Asik
You would think Olshey talked about Asik during the TRob trade. So we either have the inside track or our offer isn't good enough or we are passing for someone else.
Who's got the best stretch 4 to offer Houston? I don't see why the Pelicans don't offer Ryan Anderson.
I was thinking the same. I would assume that Houston is holding on to Asik to the very end just in case he stays in LA. The other moves they can live with, but trading Asik and not getting Dwight would really hurt.
Bucks- Ilyasova Actually a 3 team deal between MIL, HOU, and POR would work great MIL looks to be rebuilding and the have solid D and rebounding 4/5s but no offensively minded bigs and they're probably losing Ellis and Reddick too, so Matthews + Leonard to MIL Ilyasova + maybe Will Barton to HOU, because of Asik's weird deal this actually gives them close to another 400k in cap room too And Asik to POR. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lykdp5r If we could get MIL to take Freeland too I'd consider that just about perfect but not totally necessary. Offer all our space to Iggy, or a 7mil per year deal to Tony Allen and we'd be really in business.
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Brooks with McCollum wouldn't work imo. Too many shooters. I think Maynor would be a much better option with CJ.
When people used to challenge me, "If we get rid of McMillan, who out there is better?" I would say, "Kevin McHale, best big man coach in the biz, who could make a man out of Aldridge, is unemployed." If Asik comes here, expect him to not play as well as he did in Houston.
Some interesting dominoes to keep track of when it comes to Asik. The biggest and most obvious is Dwight Howard, of course. But now there is a rumor that the Hawks are interested in a S&T of Josh Smith for Asik and pieces. If, in the end, trading Asik DOES become the Rockets' move, I can't see any offer appealing to them more than that. A chance to pair Howard and Smith in their front court to go along with Harden and Parsons would be an enormous, amazing off-season. But wait! Another rumor has Detroit making Josh Smith an offer before all this can go down. If he signs that sheet (or another team's) when the moratorium ends, Atlanta can't use him for anything; can only match or watch him leave. So with Asik as my current top choice, I'm rooting for someone to lock up Smith ASAP, and for us to somehow be able to win the bidding war for Asik.
