St. Paul Pioneer Press: "Kevin McHale, the Timberwolves' vice president of basketball operations, has spoken to more than one team about a trade involving point guard Terrell Brandon, who has not played a game for the Wolves since he had surgery on his left knee in February 2002."
i understand wanting to get rid of him, but i dont know why teams would want to get rid of a bunch of players just for more room under the salary cap. sure they could sign a good free agent, but it just doesn't sound attractive
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "magicfrankie":</div><div class="quote_post">?Just for salary cap reasons?</div> Yep..
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "slamduncan21":</div><div class="quote_post">i understand wanting to get rid of him, but i dont know why teams would want to get rid of a bunch of players just for more room under the salary cap. sure they could sign a good free agent, but it just doesn't sound attractive</div> either does a dollar for dollar luxary tax to most owners
brandon go to pacers.... croshere and someone (i forgot) to wolves i think it's good trade... but there is other offer..i dont know who will take brandon but we take a few good players.. who will we pick up the draft? what's your ideas? i want to khryapa but he gave up..
I'd rather have Jalen Rose, unless that other person is Jermaine O'Neal I miss TB though, very good player
here is a stan smith trade on http://sports.espn.go.com/nbadraft/d03/story?id=1570786 . Terrell Brandon, Anthony Peeler and Minnesota's No. 1 pick to Portland for Rasheed Wallace. Hey, the Timberwolves haven't had a No. 1 pick in so long they wouldn't know what to do with it, anyway. One small contract might need to be added to equalize the deal. Priority No. 1 in Portland is saving some money and cleaning up the team's image. Priority No. 1 in Minnesota is keeping Kevin Garnett, which means getting out of the first round of the playoffs. Wallace is difficult (OK, more than that), but the Wolves are desperate. Wallace also is a great talent who doesn't want to be the No. 1 guy. Teamed with Garnett, they could be a fearsome front line. Portland gets oodles of savings in the luxury tax with Brandon's $11.15 million salary coming off the books in January, thus saving Portland virtually double that with luxury tax. The Blazers also are ready to hand the power forward job to Zach Randolph, so it's time to send Wallace on his way. And only the desperate will put up with him. Toronto made a better offer than this.
i don't think portland would do it. tb wouldn't be good to have on your team with injuries, and the pick isn't that good. why would portland need another 20+ pick sitting on their bench(qyntel woods last year). minnesota would get the better end of that deal by far.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting "slamduncan21":</div><div class="quote_post">i understand wanting to get rid of him, but i dont know why teams would want to get rid of a bunch of players just for more room under the salary cap. sure they could sign a good free agent, but it just doesn't sound attractive</div> Who cares if its attractive. He'll get traded and it will be good for both sides
That arcitle was posted already... 2nd I dont know if that would even work for the Timberwolves... Ive heard Rasheed doesnt want to be the main option for a team, but both him and KG are loud and very out going and I think they would clash... thats just me tho...
other teams want brandon because he will give them salary cap relief in february and oodles of cash on the luxary tax. so one team that will seriously consider getting brandons contract is indiana, so they can sign jermaine oneal. if we do trade with indiana, we could get artest or harrington. there is also rumors on the bulls for jalen rose, wizards for jerry stackhouse(though that one is pretty much over because of stackhouse signing an extension), and the blazers one(which i will put to a rest right here, smith just said that that is a trade that he thinks should happen, not that will happen). overall, i want the pacers one because artest or harrington would be good roll players for us, and maybe attract signing gary payton.
jermaine o'neal wants artest and harrington out of indiana. i think artest is exactly what the t-wolves need. he can score and is the defensive stopper they need to go along with kg. i think kg and artest will feed off each other's energy and kg will make sure to keep artest in check. however, artest and wally might be an explosive situation because artest is going to get on his case about not playing hard on defense. Hudson Wally Artest KG Nesterovic (i think he'll re-sign)
im really pushing for gary payton, so maybe a sign and trade could be involved here...................
that is not for certain, and i think he has a better chance of signing with the bucks before he signs with the lakers, same with the timberwolves, but a guy can dream, cant he?
