Spitballing #2: Dump Wally World, Enter the Matrix
Trade #1: Wally Szczerbiak and Kendrick Perkins for Kwame Brown and Vlad Radmanovic
The Lakers need Kwame's defense. That being said, relying on Kwame Brown seems like a recipe for disaster so they add the harder working Perkins. Wally is better than Vlad Rad, will give the Lakers another scoring threat, and has a shorter contract. So why do the Celtics do this deal again? Kwame's contract is expiring and could allow the C's to move Theo Ratliff's deal. Yeah, Kwame's lazy but why not give Clifford Ray a challenge? Worse case scenario, he replaces Kandi as our resident #1 bust and comes off the books after the season. Trade #2: #5, Gerald Green, Tony Allen, Theo Ratliff for Shawn Marion, #29 pick
The Suns make this deal because they are desperate to cut payroll. We could add Allan Ray (to be waive) so the Suns could dump James Jones as well (but there's no way we take Marcus Banks back). While this seems like a no-brainer for the C's, the Suns potentially get a very good shooting guard in Green, a top big man in the draft (Horford, Jianlian, or Noah). The sleeper is Tony Allen who adds defense and could blossom playing alongside Nash. If they want, we could always replace Ratliff with Kwame Brown. Marion is signed on for only two more years but next season would be a player option. While I doubt he's going to opt out of a deal that is set to pay him 17 million dollars, the risk still remains that he could walk away and leave the Celtics empty handed. The Suns throw in the #29 pick because they are probably going to give it away anyway. Trade #3: Sebastian Telfair for Lindsay Hunter (or Flip Murray)
Detroit could take a flyer on Telfair. Draft:
#29: Alando Tucker
#32: Morris Almond Sign for cheap: Devin Brown End of the Day:
PG: Rondo, West, Hunter
SG: Pierce, Brown, Almond, Ray
SF: Marion, Scalabrine, Tucker
PF: Radmanovic, Gomes, Powe
C: Jefferson, Kwame
The Lakers need Kwame's defense. That being said, relying on Kwame Brown seems like a recipe for disaster so they add the harder working Perkins. Wally is better than Vlad Rad, will give the Lakers another scoring threat, and has a shorter contract. So why do the Celtics do this deal again? Kwame's contract is expiring and could allow the C's to move Theo Ratliff's deal. Yeah, Kwame's lazy but why not give Clifford Ray a challenge? Worse case scenario, he replaces Kandi as our resident #1 bust and comes off the books after the season. Trade #2: #5, Gerald Green, Tony Allen, Theo Ratliff for Shawn Marion, #29 pick
The Suns make this deal because they are desperate to cut payroll. We could add Allan Ray (to be waive) so the Suns could dump James Jones as well (but there's no way we take Marcus Banks back). While this seems like a no-brainer for the C's, the Suns potentially get a very good shooting guard in Green, a top big man in the draft (Horford, Jianlian, or Noah). The sleeper is Tony Allen who adds defense and could blossom playing alongside Nash. If they want, we could always replace Ratliff with Kwame Brown. Marion is signed on for only two more years but next season would be a player option. While I doubt he's going to opt out of a deal that is set to pay him 17 million dollars, the risk still remains that he could walk away and leave the Celtics empty handed. The Suns throw in the #29 pick because they are probably going to give it away anyway. Trade #3: Sebastian Telfair for Lindsay Hunter (or Flip Murray)
Detroit could take a flyer on Telfair. Draft:
#29: Alando Tucker
#32: Morris Almond Sign for cheap: Devin Brown End of the Day:
PG: Rondo, West, Hunter
SG: Pierce, Brown, Almond, Ray
SF: Marion, Scalabrine, Tucker
PF: Radmanovic, Gomes, Powe
C: Jefferson, Kwame
Comments
Would you really want to go in to next season with no lottery pick and Jefferson and Kwame as the only legitimately big big men on the team? Some how I don't think that team would contend in the short or long-term.
And why sell now on Tony Allen? His value is in the cellar.
I liked your Ray Allen trade idea a heck of a lot better. We add a durable veteran star with a complementary skill set to Jefferson, a veteran PG and a decent big man prospect in Swift.
A Pierce/Allen/Jefferson trio would be a lot of fun to watch.
Posted by: Sam | May 27, 2007 02:09 AM