Hittin' the Links: Where DBB's Dreams -- Cousins, Collison, and/or Jack -- May Come True

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I can’t get to the Trade Machine, but just looking at NO’s salaries….

Peja has a 10% trade kicker, and he’ll be expiring end of next season. So, even though he’s expiring, that kicker will make any trade partner think twice. And because it’s expiring, I’m not sure they’d want to trade it.

I’d think they want out of Mo Pete (but again, he’s expiring), Posey, and possibly Okafor.

I have a hard time envisioning a scenario that doesn’t involve our #7 and Prince, obviously our two best chips. If they are looking for luxury tax relief, I don’t think we can help them much. But, if they are looking for a reset button, (I think) we could move Prince, Wilcox, and the #7 for some combination of DC, Okafor and filler.

That’s quite a lot to give up, and combining Okafor, Rip, BG, and CV’s contracts in 2013 gives me a migraine.

So he’s destined to be a Piston, right?

I would start negotiations at Will Bynum (via sign and trade), Prince and any of the 3 2009 rookies. You never throw in all of your best trade chips at the start; the best tactic is always to throw in a bone (which would be cap relief and an exciting player in WB) and then work with the partner so that you hopefully don’t have to give in all your assets.

Collison is better than Bynum at just about everything Will is good at except perhaps dunking over Tyson Chandler, plus they are both quite small. While DC has shown to be a good defensive player against point guards, there would be no way to cross guard.

That is why keeping Stuckey would be much more useful, as with a few good 3 point shooters alongside him and a true passer at the 2, he could be a dominant slashing 2 guard that also racks up a few assists. Stuck has shown that he does have good court vision, I think he just doesn’t like the idea of purely setting up teammates (he’s said in interviews he’s always looking to score). If you play those two alongside each other, the tempo should massively increase (which also benefits Stuck) and I don’t think that getting 40 points and 15 assists out of our starting backcourt would be out of the question.

I hope its after we’ve failed at moving up for Cousins/Favors and explored all other trade possibilities.

It was Draft Express that said something big would go down today or tomorrow, but were sworn to secrecy (“argh” is what they then said). Thanks for posting all this man.

Then lost it all back taking a dump just now. Let me know when he adds 15, then he’s getting somewhere.

The thought of drafting a SG gives me a migraine.

but not worth a top 10 pick in a draft like this. better talent could be had.

That trade would make them much worse, think about it.

You are asking them to waste their cap space on two well over priced veterans, both of whom are unhappy with their current situations. They could be positive influences, but they could very well be negative influences – not what you want on a young team. But more importantly they can get better players via free agency, even if that means overpaying someone like Joe Johnson.

Also that #5 pick holds a lot more value to them than either Hamilton or Turkoglu. Even with Monroe or Johnson, they are getting a high quality player that will greatly improve their team at a fraction of the cost of the vets. Johnson is projected to easily average 20 ppg in a few years, if he puts up 17 now on a rookie contract, why would they want Hamilton? And if they want a talented scoring frontcourt player who plays no defense, would not Greg make more sense due to the position (and salary)?

honestly, this would be a trade of horrific proportions for sacramento. gotta look at it from their perspective. they’d waste a killer pick and all their cap space on negative value. my first instinct was to just say “facepalm”, but i’m not trying to be a dick about it. bad trade.

It’s gonna be next to impossible to move that albatross of a contract, I don’t care what he’s demanding. And this trade, from the perspective of Sacramento, is nothing short of franchise suicide.