If we trade our draft pick this year...

[spectre]

I know he has his issues, but I'd trade our pick in a second for O'Neal.

How would it work money-wise though? Is it possible without a significant salaried outgoing player?

Really? Dag DNB...and I thought so much of your opinion too...



Just kidding dude.

Wrap y'all's minds around these two numbers...$21,372,000 and $23,016.000...that's his salary the next two seasons. Guys that is Crash AND Swish's salary combined for one fricking year! That's also over 1/3rd of the allowable cap. Over the last 4 seasons this guy has played a total of 206 out of a possible 328 games...less than 2/3.

I'd MUCH rather pay Mek 15 million a year...and no, I don't want to do that either.

[dnbman]

Really? Dag DNB...and I thought so much of your opinion too...



Just kidding dude.

Wrap y'all's minds around these two numbers...$21,372,000 and $23,016.000...that's his salary the next two seasons. Guys that is Crash AND Swish's salary combined for one fricking year! That's also over 1/3rd of the allowable cap. Over the last 4 seasons this guy has played a total of 206 out of a possible 328 games...less than 2/3.

I'd MUCH rather pay Mek 15 million a year...and no, I don't want to do that either.

I didn't even look at his salary. For some reason, I thought he was going to be a FA this year.

JON just seems like Carter, a guy who's gotten frustrated where he's at and thus gets injured more so than usual simply from his situation. The mind can do pretty weird things.

I don't know though. Honestly, I didn't pay too much attention to JON this season other than the game the Pacers played here, where JON looked pretty good.

I don't know. I retract my statement. If money wasn't an issue, I'd probably still trade the pick for JON to see if he could go.

[swetooth9]

now that we know our pick...waht do you guys think...trade it or no?

[amour217]

Either we trade the pick or we get resigned to the fact that the #9 pick, at least this year, will be almost a non-factor, barring injuries. Larry Brown just doesn't play rookies, so unless we draft someone who makes a complete assault on the summer leagues and pre-season, they're gonna sit....at least that's how I feel right now, but then again I'm frustrated we only got a lousy #9 pick

[ammofan]

Yeah i know. C'mon #9?

And why was Rod Higgins there? MJ or Bob Johnson could've at least shown up.

[amour217]

If we trade our pick, do you all think it'll be all by itself, or part of some kind of package? In my mind, I guess we'll have to wait and see what buzz is coming out of the workouts to see who is creating some draft buzz...maybe there will be a player or two that creates enough buzz, but doesn't fit our team, but another team is salivating over...ya never know

[mrtarheel]

I don't see anyone wanting # 9. We have to package it with someone or next years pick to do anything significant. Maybe someone will rise up out of the draft camps but the way those balls fell it took the wind out of alot of people. I feel we have to be aggresive in free agency and go out and get what we need quickly. Don't sit back and wait until it's all gone, be the man and go get what you want starting now. Look at the Nets, they are trying to get better already. You can't wait until everyone has picked over the best and get leftovers. That would be another eastern confrence team you have to deal with. What if we traded crash for al harrington. He would provide us with the scoring we need and help out on the boards alittle bit. He was with LB in Indiana and we deal with GSW seeing that we have ties to each other. Maybe try to squeeze someone like Matt Barnes out of the deal.

[spectre]

Kind of inspired on the RealGM trade board by Utah fans:

Boozer for Crash, Nazr and #8

Boozer/Brewer for Crash/Harrington (expiring)/9th.

I think that's what we could possibly shoot for anyway. We'd get a great offensive scoring in Boozer and a nice lockdown 2 in Brewer.

[Slam]

Boozer/Brewer for Crash/Harrington (expiring)/9th.

I would 100% be all over that deal.

Felts - R.Brew - Swish - Boozer - EO50

[spectre]

I would 100% be all over that deal.

Felts - R.Brew - Swish - Boozer - EO50

and combine it with your idea and we effectively no longer have to worry about McMay. I think we'd still need a 2nd point like Watson (Brewer does have some PG skills doesn't he?), but we'd be pretty solid throughout:

Felts/Brewer/FA
Brewer/Hammer/Swish
Swish/Duds
Booz/TT/Davidson
Mek/Nazr/Hollins