Remotely plausible Roy trades?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

 

1/2 Mental 1/2 Physical, IMHO

Dude needs to adapt his game, I could of told you this last year. In fact I was screaming at the TV last year, Roy pass the ball! Roy Your Working too hard! Roy close out on D!

 

This is the trade

Roy
Miller
Rudy

for

Sjax
GWallace

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=37uuvnb

 

lulz.....no thanks

PG--Fisher is doing his thing, Blake is playing great, stretching the floor
SG-- Kobe, Shannon has been playing light out this year
SF--Dont need Rons O(thank god), Great D this year, Barnes is also playing really well
PF--Pau, Odom is having his best year as a Laker so far
C--Bynums back, Pau will play here too

Ratliff, Joe Smith,Character to get the trash minutes in the C/PF positions

Lakers have no desire for a player who all of you said needs to have the ball in his hands to be effective...thats ass backwards for the triangle O and the fact we already have stellar scoring threats

 

Believe it or not, "seven or eight teams" have called asking about Roy, according to Rich Bucher.

(Scary: he also says that we offered Batum and Joel for Iguodala, and they turned us down! I like Iggy and Batum is driving me crazy, but I guess I thought the Blazers liked Nicolas more than that.

 

How about a trade with Detroit? They have a bunch of contracts that they'd be happy to unload. This trade works, for example. Or how about this for an ironic trade?

 

Waitaminute - I've got it! Call off the Gilbert Arenas-to-Orlando trade because this is PERFECT:

Orlando gets Hedo and Roy for Rashard Lewis
Phoenix gets Lewis (think what he'd be like with Nash!)
We get Josh Childress (who's been disappointing for Phoenix).

 

Okay, now Gilbert, Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu have already been traded, that severely cramps possibilities. How about this one:

Brandon and Joel for Lou Williams, Nocioni, Songaila and Tony Battie.

If Philly are stuck with Brand for a while, they might as well swing for the fences. (They've been playing well lately, and part of that is Jodie Meeks taking Williams' minutes.)

 

Just to continue the conversation with myself...

Apparently Phoenix are shopping Josh Childress. Hmmmm...

Detroit: swap bad signing Villenueva and old and grumpy Rip for Brandon (star power! The Pistons certainly need it! And unlike Rip, he could actually play alongside both Stuckey and Ben Gordon) and Joel
Suns: Unload Childress and a scrub for Villenueva who is MUCH better suited to their style, as is Babbitt
Portland: successfully unload Roy's contract! Oh, and get Childress (remember when we wanted him so much?) and Rip, who won't complain about playing alongside Miller.

Another trade would probably be needed as we're very small as a result. If Noah hadn't've gone down, I might have suggested Rudy for Asik again...

 

I would do that trade in a second. I really like Childress. I just doubt that Detroit is willing to bet on a player who has no meniscus in his knees and has a long, max deal. But they did sign Villanueva, so I guess you never know.

 

You don't. Another complication is that the sale to the Ilitchs (sp.?) who own the Red Wings and Tigers appears to have fallen through, so I dunno if they'd run away from trading for Roy or do it in the hope that a "name" would help the sale. Okay, I do know, and it's not the second one.