OT: OKC should've kept Jeff Green and James Harden

Which center could we have gotten for Clyde?

Hahahahaha!

Olawokandi, Darius Miles, you know? All Stars!

Can I keep Leonard in that deal? He has top 5 seven footer potential in this league.

 

Perkins for Green wasn't a tight wad move. They actually thought it was a good trade. They needed a starting center and Green's best position was SF, same as Durant. They traded for need (apparently, they NEEDED a horribly overpaid center that sucks ass).

Refusing to amnesty Perkins so they could offer Harden max deal and stay under the luxury tax threshold was a tight wad move. Their cheap ass, hillbilly owners were too cheap to pay Perkins to suck elsewhere and refused to swallow the final two years of his contract.

So, Perkins cost them both Green and Harden - one in a stupid trade, the other in a stupid tight wad move.

BNM

 

actually, werent they motivated to deal green because he was coming up on free agency? i seem to remember that. which made me really scratch my head when i heard they signed perkins to 4years/30MM or whatever after the trade.

 

Westbrook/Jackson
Harden/Lamb
Durant/Sefolosha
Ibaka/Green
Adams/Collison

That bench wouldn't be the worst team in the east. That's an insane roster right there.

 

well, they wouldnt have lamb or adams if they kept harden

 

That, plus the fact that they thought Green was expendable because his best position was SF. Durant's rookie year PJ played him at SG and Green started at SF. That didn't work out so well as Durant was MUCH better suited to they SF position. So, trading Green wasn't really a cost saving move. They needed a starting center more than they needed a back up SF. So, they shipped out Green and overpaid Perkins. The concept wasn't flawed, but the execution was. If they would have gotten a decent starting center for Green, it wouldn't have been a bad move. Unfortunately, for them, the starting enter they got has been the worst starter in the league for the past two seasons.

Ironically, they probably could have had either of our two current centers instead of Perkins, if they would have wanted them. Both Lopez and Kaman were available back then, but Lopez was still unproven and Kaman had injury issues. So, they ended up with the rotting corpse of Kendrick Perkins.

BNM

 

True. On the other hand, if they had kept Harden, they'd have Harden.