I usually enjoy reading this guy but this time he's delusional. He thinks the Rockets could get Aldridge for Tevor Ariza, Pablo Prigioni and DMo or Terrance Jones. Ariza is getting old and is overpaid. Not to mention he ruined Brandon Roy and Rudy Fernandez careers with injuries. Pablo is what 37? Those other guys form one of the weakest PF rotations in the league. No thanks. The Blazers would rather let LMA walk than take back that junk, in my opinion. Plus the whole idea of helping the Rockets, who we hated playing in the playoffs, and have no respect for, is ridiculous in its own right. There's a reason star trades are done out of conference. http://es.pn/1FhH3Lc
DMo is Barfnani with a post game. Terrence Jones clearly isn't a starter on a good team. Pelton is on the dope.
Actually, that would be interesting. Ariza, D-Mo and the 18th pick for Love would be a good swap. The Cavs would get deeper, the Rockets would get another scorer.
I don't see anything that really is insane about this article. Pelton says the obvious and then puts together a package that is a lowball offer but one of those "take it or leave it offers" and Morry is famous for overvaluing his players and sending ridiculous trade offers to other teams. The Rockets are damn well going to go after LA as well as every other team that thinks they have a glimmer of hope of getting him. Lots more of these articles will come out soon, next one I bet is LA to the Lakers for Jordan hill, Nick Young, some other horrible player.
Kevin Pelton is one of many puddinghead drama sports writers trying to make the news rather than actually reporting the news. And his record on draft predictions sucks.
That's what I was thinking. All of these offers are assuming lma is leaving and in that case I don't know how much better an offer you will get. I've seen people saying lma for Dwight and while it might be a fair trade as far as talent goes, it is completely unrealistic. What would you guys hope to get in a sign and trade? And if the options were this or lma walks, would you take it? At least d-mo and ariza are talented and this trade does address the needs of your team.
The trade as proposed does not work under the CBA. LMA is going to be making around $20.5M next year. For Houston to take LMA, they would have to send out around $15.4M in salaries. Ariza will make $8.1M, Pablo $1.7M & Jones or Motijunas $2.4M for a total of $12.2M. Houston would have to include Papanikolaou and his $4.6M salary just for this to be feasible. Out of all the Houston players, the one I would like to get to Portland is Capela.... I HATE Houston right now. There is no way I would trade LMA there just for spite. If we are going to S&T LMA, I wouldn't mind doing so with SA. LMA for Splitter, Kyle Anderson, and a 2016 pick wouldn't be bad...
He mentions adding a player from Houston in S&T as well. Not that it makes the package one I'd like, personally.
I'd hope to get a piece that could maybe turn into one above average starter. None of those scraps from Houston would do that. Better to let LMA walk and use the cap space for trades or free agents. Maybe another team gives a better sign and trade offer or LMA ultimately decides to stay. Houston doesn't have the cap space to sign him so there's no reason to trade him there. If he came to a verbal agreement to sign with say the Spurs then sure you consider taking less than fair value. But Houston won't have that opportunity.
