I suspect we won't see a trade, unless....

Yeah I tend to agree; if we were better we might even look to trade for a contributor now or if we were worse we might look to tank but being a .500 team looks like we just stand pat.

Hendo has impressed me since I ripped on him in his thread... Sure we'd trade him for a good asset but that doesn't seem likely so why not keep him and could even consider resigning him in the summer if his offer's don't get all Wes Matthews crazy.

Standing pat will also give the players a nice $$$ bonus if we don't acquire anyone else, a nice reward for them and a future selling point in free agency. Now if another team gives us a first for our cap space sure we do it but I just don't see any teams looking to dump salary with enough of an asset for us to care. Better to make Miami type teams pay the repeater tax, get a cut of their money and hamper them down the line.

 

I like the idea of using the salary floor bonus as a thank you to overachieving youth. Any move to acquire vets would just take that away and take time away from growing our young guys. That's a lose-lose scenario.

 

You said you wanted to trade Kaman and Henderson for a player in order add cap space? So yeah it had to be for an expiring contract. But if that was the goal then we could simply just not trade them. And then just not resign them...... and still obtain the same goal.

If we got a draft pick back then that's a different story. That is why I was asking. I just don't' see the advantage of adding Kaman to the package. He has no value for a team unless they lost their center. Plus I doubt a contender would give us anyone good back that is making 11 million. And if they did we wouldn't save on cap space. The draft pick is the only thing that makes sense to me.

 

Damn nobody is safe from some of you guys!

I say we trade everybody but Dame so that we can trade the people we trade for and get some more people to trade.

 

Unless we trade for......

PUPPY MONKEY BABY!!!!
PUPPYMONKEYBABY
PUPPYMONKEYBABY
PUPPYMONKEYBABY
PUPPYMONKEYBABY
PUPPYMONKEYBABY

 

Nice right?

And then when we are done with that, we will trade for them all to come back here again.

 

You are going to force me to ban you for spamming........... actually I can't ban, but Sly will ban you!

 

So, you're saying Blake is on his way back to Portland? Yes!

 

After Armon Johnson's return.

 

Before reading through this, I mostly agree with the premise - we won't make a trade for the future that negatively impacts the present. I've also been reading posts about players people would and wouldn't trade - here's my list, operating under the premise that the trade must be both for the present and the future:

Aminu - He has some amount of value.
Davis - I like him, but I'd trade him and he has some amount of value.
Henderson - Ditto Davis.
Plumlee - Ditto Davis/Henderson.
Kaman - Really a non-factor for this team, probably doesn't have much value (so trading him doesn't have to take the present into consideration).

That's really it. I'd trade Crabbe/CJ/Vonleh, but it'd have to be a huge, obvious win for us. Trading Meyers isn't going to bring anything of value back to us - I'd rather have the option to match offers. Ditto Harkless. And the "unmentionables" aren't worth mentioning.