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

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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

Ummm... joke?

Via Blake Griffin's twitter:

"Hey guys I just got traded..."

[Playmakers]

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

I dont think Dallas would take Turiafs and Billups contracts when they can clear cap space and give themselves great flexibility...if they were going to spend that much they would just resign Chandler

sure they would....

remember Cuban is only offering 1 year deals to everyone. getting Billups and Turiaf who are both on 1 year deals right now would be perfect for Cuban.

He gets a backup PG for Kidd and also Billups size allows Dallas to use him much like Kidd with Terry on the floor

Turiaf would be a undersized banger off the bench but i wouldn't use him at center in Dallas i'd try to get someone else to backup Haywood

I don't know if Billups wants to play in Dallas because he can start somewhere else but lets say something like this happens then the Mavs can have a backcourt rotation

Kidd/Billups/D.Jones
Fernandez/Terry/Beaubois

Maybe they luck out and resign Stevenson for 1 year then they get even deeper in the backcourt.

That would leave them Marion and Brewer at SF with Dirk and Turiaf at PF.

Then Cuban can work on bringing in a serviceable Big man to backup Haywood...preferably a more mobile atheletic type similiar to Chandler...

In a dream world you'd hope that Brewer and Roddy really develope and start playing consistent then all of sudden your roster just got a helluva lot better because of their speed and quickness added to the rotation

[bigeastbumrush]

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

That's who the Hornets wanted, but neither the Warriors or Clippers are stupid enough anymore to think it's a good idea.

The Warriors are going to look even stupider seeing how they will have basically lost CP3 and Tyson Chandler in the same day.

CP3 & Monta>>>>Monta & Curry

The Clippers...well they just gave Caron Butler $8M a year so I can't say much about their front office.

[jeremym480]

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

The Warriors are going to look even stupider seeing how they will have basically lost CP3 and Tyson Chandler in the same day.

CP3 & Monta>>>>Monta & Curry

The Clippers...well they just gave Caron Butler $8M a year so I can't say much about their front office.

I agree, but if CP3 isn't willing to sign an extension, then it doesn't look quite as good. Although what does Curry have left on his contact, two years?

[RedSceptile]

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

The Warriors are going to look even stupider seeing how they will have basically lost CP3 and Tyson Chandler in the same day.

CP3 & Monta>>>>Monta & Curry

The Clippers...well they just gave Caron Butler $8M a year so I can't say much about their front office.

Think the Warriors look pretty smarty by not having to attach 15 million a year basically to Tyson Chandler to have an undersized Chris Paul and Monta Elis backcourt versus not parting 15 million extra for an undersized Curry and Elis backcourt. Seems like a wise decision to me.

[Chrisksaint]

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

If CP3 is traded to not only LAL, but for Kevin Martin and Luis Scola then i'm done with the NBA

[ProfessaPackMan]

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

NYDNInterNets Stefan Bondy
Source corroborated what @WojYahooNBA reported, that Nets had chance to get Caron but wouldn’t overpay.

123456loko

[bigeastbumrush]

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

At least five teams would like to sign free-agent power forward David West(notes), whose season ended in March with a torn ACL in his left knee.
According to CBSSports.com, four of those teams — the Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks -- don't have enough room under the salary cap to bring West onboard. The good news for them, though, is that the Hornets are willing to do a sign-and-trade deal with the 31-year-old two-time All-Star, who averaged 18.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game last season.
The other team that actually has room for West under the cap is the Indiana Pacers, CBS reports.

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[ProfessaPackMan]

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

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski



The Hornets have started to inform teams that they're sending Chris Paul to the Lakers for Bynum and Odom, league sources tell Y! Sports.

1 minute ago

123456loko

[TheMatrix31]

At least we don't have to be bombarded with the stuff about "Lakers size and length"

[Taur3asi3]

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

So the team that is currently owned by the NBA is trading a top 5 player in the league to the Los Angeles Lakers, after fighting for "competitive balance" during the lockout.

Ok then.

[wizzleman]

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

123456loko

Its actually paul for pau/odom

[ProfessaPackMan]

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

Correction it is for Gasol/Odom.

[bigeastbumrush]

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

RT @WojYahooNBA: Correction: The proposed deal to the Lakers is Chris Paul for Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, source says

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[TheMatrix31]

They'll get Howard next for Bynum and picks and then, maybe then, my interest in the league will finally be 100% dead.