Official POST-LOCKOUT Player Movement Thread (Trades, FAs, etc)

[TheMatrix31]

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I'd love for the Suns to pick him and his expiring contract up.

Not sure New Orleans would be interested in anything we'd have to offer.

[Drewski]

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[BlueNGold]

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Yeaaaah.....no.

[Altimus]

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Would be a good pickup for Boston. Another injury prone big.

Boom!

[SidVish]

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Bulls release Mike James and are looking for another big while Deng is still out. They've talked to Powe and Pryzbilla to fill the void but no decision has been made.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-bulls-release-james-big-man-coming-20120128,0,4366665.story

[Drewski]

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This should have happened a long long time ago, considering LA doesn't have much to lose.

The Los Angeles Lakers have expressed interest in Gilbert Arenas, according to sources close to the situation. The 30-year-old is an unrestricted free agent after being amnestied by the Orlando Magic last month. No signing is imminent, but the Lakers have reached out to the veteran point guard.

One way or the other though, Arenas is definitely a low-risk, high-reward proposition, as he would come to L.A. for the minimum, and Kennedy reports that he would be all too happy to do so. At this stage, with no other clear options to upgrade in the backcourt, it probably wouldn't hurt to see if Arenas has anything left in the tank

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[Boltman]

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Better than nothing.

[Altimus]

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Bulls release Mike James and are looking for another big while Deng is still out. They've talked to Powe and Pryzbilla to fill the void but no decision has been made.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...,4366665.story

They still had one slot open so they should have just kept James.

[RedSceptile]

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Well this is looking pretty promising for us this upcoming off season.

By declining the options this week on four lottery picks from the 2009 draft -- No. 2 Hasheem Thabeet, No. 6 Jonny Flynn, No. 8 Jordan Hill and No. 11 Terrence Williams -- Houston reduced its 2012-13 payroll by nearly $18 million: $17,577,291 to be exact. The Rockets drafted none of the four, who become unrestricted free agents in July, acquiring all of them in separate trades with Memphis (Thabeet), Minnesota (Flynn), New York (Hill) and New Jersey (Williams).

I just hope we don't pull a Detroit (overpay for guys like Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva).

[LionsFanNJ]

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I'd like to see Gil do well somewhere. LA's a good a place as any.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Roland Lazenby: Starting to hear that Kupchak may be leaving the Lakers. Don't know if it's true, but if he did... well, there's Jimmy by his lonesome. about 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: Lakers fans better hope it's merely talk. Much maligned in the past, Kupchak is a great, great GM+a great stabilizing force in crazyland. about 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: I couldn't fathom that he would leave in the middle of the season, if he left at all. End of season? Even that's hard to believe. about 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: As tough as the Odom trade is, keeping his funk in town would have bombed Mike Brown. Kupchak took the flexibility and moved on. Sort of. about 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: I want to stress that what I hear is only talk about Kupchak. But in the past you'd never even hear such talk. about 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: Add up all the Lakers personnel losses during the lockout. The loss of players. The departure of Phil's staff. That's a lot of loss. 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: With all the change the Lakers have been thru+must go thru still more change, it's smart for fans to lower expectations. That's only fair. 8 hours ago

Roland Lazenby: I do think the Buss family, with all it has done to build up the Lakers, deserves the benefit of doubt from fans. Bite the bullet. about 7 hours ago

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[Drewski]

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I was reading that before I crashed out last night (worse than a nightmare)...

Have done my best to completely disregard it (for my own sanity's sake), but at the rate things are going, who knows.

[TheBrothers24]

I don't know why we have to give the entire buss family credit. Dr. Buss deserves all the credit. His son has done almost everything he can to put his "stamp" on the team.

The only good thing in that organization right now is Mitch & I don't even want to imagine this team without Mitch having a chance to fix it up.

[ScoobySnax]

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Well this is looking pretty promising for us this upcoming off season.



I just hope we don't pull a Detroit (overpay for guys like Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva).

Dumars has to be waking up in cold sweats due to those contract abominations.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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The vultures are swirling around the big, rotten apple.

With the New York Knicks just 7-13 to start the season and All-Star forward Amar'e Stoudemire scoring 8 points per game less than last season, the first rush of trade winds is in effect.

CSNPhilly.com reports that it is the Philadelphia 76ers, an Atlantic Division rival, that phoned the Knicks to inquire about Stoudemire's availability.

According to a league source, the Sixers have inquired about Stoudemire, though it was categorized as “due diligence.” Nothing is said to be imminent or even in the early stages other than just talk, the source said. Nevertheless, in past seasons the Sixers were reportedly discussing trade scenarios with the Phoenix Suns in order to acquire Stoudemire.

The Knicks' early season struggles are well-documented. Without a capable point guard to point the group in the right direction, New York has stumbled out of the gate and is currently tracking to be a lottery team despite the presence of two All-Stars and Tyson Chandler in the starting lineup.

Stoudemire, who drew some MVP talk last season, has been hit particularly hard, averaging just 17.7 points and shooting 42.8 percent from the field so far this season. For comparison, he hasn't averaged less than 20 points in a season in which he was healthy since his rookie year in 2002-2003 and he's a career 53.3 percent shooter. His effectiveness on offense, the only side of the ball where he's a real difference-maker, has plummeted from elite to pedestrian.

To see those changes from a 29-year-old player of his caliber, even one with his injury history, is unusual. The obvious read here is that the struggles are of the situational variety. The lack of a backcourt plus the lockout-shortened season plus the presence of a ball-dominating Carmelo Anthony is a tricky trio for Stoudemire to overcome. Smart teams should be calling.

Of course that doesn't mean that he's actually going anywhere. Including this season, Stoudemire has roughly $83 million left to be payed on the massive contract he signed prior to last season. Given that he can't be amnestied by a team that trades for him, any suitor would assume all of the injury-related risk that the massive contract represents. With the new collective bargaining agreement's harsher luxury tax system kicking in soon, teams are expected to be increasingly wary of having monster type deals on their books for non-monster performers.

The questions right now: Will Stoudemire return to form and, if so, when? If it doesn't happen soon, and in a big way, it will be next to impossible to trade him before the deadline. If it does happen, New York's motivation to keep him skyrockets. Unless his personal improvement brings with it an even deeper team-wide struggle, it's difficult to see a sweet spot created where other teams are interested in his services at his price and New York is willing to part ways.

This was a long-winded way of saying these rumors are premature.

http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/34614185