Pau Gasol?

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Jerry West has said that he is going to deal Pao Gasol. After firing up the ESPN Trade Checker I came up with Sean May and Gerald Wallace / Pao Gasol. Anytime you can get a 7 foot scoring / rebounding / all-star forward like Gasol, you have to do it. There are 2 problems though.
First Jerry West says that he isn't going to make this deal unless it makes the Grizzlies substantially better. I think this deal would do it, because it gives them a super athletic SF to pair with Rudy Gay at SG and it gives them a more than adequate PF in Sean May.
Second, Pao says that he wants to go to a contender... This is where the sales job will need to come in. We'll need to sell him on what our roster will look like NEXT season. We could have a roster with Raymond, Morrison, Carroll, Pao, Emeka, 1 or 2 lottery picks and an impact free agent. That has to look better than the mess thats the Grizzlies roster.

One other thing that makes this look good from a Bobcats perspective is this trade could really turn out being Sean May and cap space for Pao, because I'm not convinced that Gerald is going to re-sign her this off-season. So if we don't move him, we may lose him for nothing.

Thoughts?

[Dead_Real]

I would really hate giving up May more than Crash in all honestly but I'd do it reguardless.

[123together]

i dunno, morrison would then have to carry the load from the wing, and i don't think he's ready to do that. it would definitely improve our inside game and primoz would be a backup (which is good) but we are sacrificing depth (may) and we are taking on a big contract before we are even able to hit the free agent market. i'm not sold on doing it

[dvdbumpus]

How about Morrison and another player for Gasol? I'll take that.

[heelfan]

How about Morrison and another player for Gasol? I'll take that.

I think Morrison and another player would get the trade done. Prior to the draft last summer, It was obvious that Jerry West had a severe hard on for Adam Morrison.

[Mustachio]

i think morrison will be here until his first contract is up, which i think is two more years.

Primoz, Gerald Wallace ..... thats about 8 mil in contracts for gasols likely at least 12-13 million... so cap hit is minimum and we can still hit free agency hard if we want to.

They get in return an atheletic G, F combo and a 7 footer, to ease the pain without gasol.

we dont lose any youth and gain an all star. an offensive presence to combine with oakafor and sean may to relieve both of them.


fun to think about, but we all know that the bobcats arent gonna do anything this year, we will be lucky if they do anything splash worthy in free agency.

[dav7z]

This is just all wish stuff right , Its no rumors or any thing going around is it.

[Mustachio]

Jerry West, publicly said that even though pau wants out of memphis, there was very little chance of it happening. His price would likely be too high for anyone, and he says the grizz problems arent in the frontcourt... its the back court that sucks

so far the bobcats arent on the trade radar. (which really doesnt mean anything except that ESPN hasnt heard about anything yet). I personally wouldnt mind him, but i just dont see him as a player in BB's mindset. He already has a soft defense playing 7 foot european. Of course i dont know anything, i just dont see it happenin for us.

i think he will likely stay in memphis. but its still fun to talk about,.

[CaptainCrunch]

It would be nice to give one UNC player and G-Force who is a free agent after this year for an All-Star forward. It would be worth it and May hasn't been producing as of late, he did get hurt though. I would love to see this trade go down.

[dav7z]

It would be nice to give one UNC player and G-Force who is a free agent after this year for an All-Star forward. It would be worth it and May hasn't been producing as of late, he did get hurt though. I would love to see this trade go down.

Man you got to be kidding, May is better than Gasol now straight up.May is just getting started[ HES A TAR HEEL] .Gasol is all ready washed up.
And to give up CRASH its not but one CRASH and we have him.