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OFFICIAL: Trade Deadline Thread

For all the moves, nice ones, I'm not convinced the Rockets are more than a treadmill team.

Lin/Harden/Carol/TRob/Asik doesn't normally beat OKC, the Clips, Memphis or the team the Jazz is putting together.
 
Catchall said:
For all the moves, nice ones, I'm not convinced the Rockets are more than a treadmill team.

Lin/Harden/Carol/TRob/Asik doesn't normally beat OKC, the Clips, Memphis or the team the Jazz is putting together.
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I think they end up getting a 4 in free agency.
 
Broncster said:
Heat made it to the Finals their first year and won in the second.

Celtics made it in their first year.

Yes Lakers kept their superstar player Kobe that is kind of a given

Stability is what got Jazz their championship right?

Basketball does not need stability it needs good players. Other sports stability is valuable, not basketball. Look at what one and done players do in college.
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But for those teams, the players jobห were never in doubt. You hardly hear about any of the players being in trade rumors.

With Morey it's different. He has a reputation now. If I'm a player, I don't like playing for a GM where I have to look over my shoulders each time a trade deadline rolls around. It won't make me want to give it 100%.
 
That is to say, if they let Delfino and Honeycutt go in the summer, they'll still have 10 players under contract taking up only about $40mm of cap space. Of those 10 players, 4 are key pieces (Lin, Harden, Parsons, Asik) and the other 6 are cheap, young, high uspide, easily tradeable players (Robinson, Jones, Montiejunas, Smith, Machado, White). Those 6 easily tradeable young players make a combined $9 893 645 next season. Houston can make a play for Dwight or Bynum.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
But for those teams, the players jobห were never in doubt. You hardly hear about any of the players being in trade rumors.

With Morey it's different. He has a reputation now. If I'm a player, I don't like playing for a GM where I have to look over my shoulders each time a trade deadline rolls around. It won't make me want to give it 100%.
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Maybe but I think there are very few professionals who half *** it because they might be traded. I think they play hard to either win, get more money or be considered a great player.
 
GVC said:
That is to say, if they let Delfino and Honeycutt go in the summer, they'll still have 10 players under contract taking up only about $40mm of cap space. Of those 10 players, 4 are key pieces (Lin, Harden, Parsons, Asik) and the other 6 are cheap, young, high uspide, easily tradeable players (Robinson, Jones, Montiejunas, Smith, Machado, White). Those 6 easily tradeable young players make a combined $9 893 645 next season. Houston can make a play for Dwight or Bynum.
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Why did Sac do the trade. Please bring some sanity to this.
 
Broncster said:
Maybe but I think there are very few professionals who half *** it because they might be traded. I think they play hard to either win, get more money or be considered a great player.
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I think Millsap has been half-assing it all season if I'm completely honest wit-choo. It wasn't until last couple of months that he started taking it seriously.
 
Hawks are expected to move Josh Smith.
Orlando is expected to move JJ Redick.
Phoenix is open to a variety of trades and will be bummed if they don't make at least one move.
OKC is trying to move Kendrick Perkins, who coincidentally didn't play in a loss to the Houston Rockets this evening. Tough contract to move.
Minnesota wants help anyway they can get it.
Brooklyn wants a forward with offense, since they don't currently have one. They could still be looking at Sap, since Josh Smith ain't happening.
Bucks think they can re-sign Josh Smith as a FA if they get him in a trade.
Boston is secretly looking for deals for Rondo, Pierce and KG.
Lakers want to take their chances with Dwight in free agency, but are also entertaining deals. I wonder what Houston is offering as we speak.
Chicago wants a 3-pt. shooter like Redick, although they just had one in Korver.

Teams are squeamish about becoming repeat lux-tax payers.

More drama to come.
 
I've been gone so let me review......


In two minor deals the Rockets just:

1- Cleared enough cap space to sign Josh Smith & Dwight Howard. (I will buy Rockets gear if it happens)
2- Pushed the NBA owners into fastracking the Sacramento sale.
3- Killed all my hopes and dreams of Thomas Robinson or Jason Thompson for Milsap.
4- Made Jimmer very available.

Meanwhile, the Rockets without half their team just beat OKC.

And the silence on South Temple is deafening.
 
mellow said:
I've been gone so let me review......


In two minor deals the Rockets just:

1- Cleared enough cap space to sign Josh Smith & Dwight Howard. (I will buy Rockets gear if it happens)
2- Pushed the NBA owners into fastracking the Sacramento sale.
3- Killed all my hopes and dreams of Thomas Robinson or Jason Thompson for Milsap.
4- Made Jimmer very available.

Meanwhile, the Rockets without half their team just beat OKC.

And the silence on South Temple is deafening.
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But we have Al, Millsap, the GS pick, and assets!

And every week, less and less viewers.
 
Yeah Jimmer stock is at an all time time and I really think he has value in this league as a backup PG.
Our backup PG. Jimmer.
 
mellow said:
I've been gone so let me review......


In two minor deals the Rockets just:

1- Cleared enough cap space to sign Josh Smith & Dwight Howard. (I will buy Rockets gear if it happens)
2- Pushed the NBA owners into fastracking the Sacramento sale.
3- Killed all my hopes and dreams of Thomas Robinson or Jason Thompson for Milsap.
4- Made Jimmer very available.

Meanwhile, the Rockets without half their team just beat OKC.

And the silence on South Temple is deafening.
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Josh Smith? Seriously? Whatever team gives him a MAX deal will regret it. And the more I see of Howard, the less I'm convinced a team will ever win a championship with him on board. The guy is a diva and mentally fragile.
 
If I go to bed and wake up to see Burks is traded I dunno what I'm going to do. I'm more afraid that they're going to trade Burks than I am that they won't do anything. The way Locke just casually threw him into trade scenarios made me sooo uncomfortable, and I've seen his name pop-up elsewhere. IM TERRIFIED ASLDUAS;ID,ASDASD
 
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