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Great trade for new Orleans
A 22 million expiring or can amnesty Lewis if they prefer.
#1 pick.
#10 pick
And can resign Gordon with lots of cap space
Interesting
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New Orleans trades Emeka Okafor and Trevor Ariza to Washington for Rashard Lewis and the #46 pick. (damn you auto-correct)
Great trade for new Orleans
A 22 million expiring or can amnesty Lewis if they prefer.
#1 pick.
#10 pick
And can resign Gordon with lots of cap space
Interesting
Great trade for NO.
Emeka and Nene is a front court. Not sure if they are a great pairing.
You can't amnesty guys you acquire via trade. Only guys who were under contract with your team prior to the lockout.
Hornets can buy out Lewis for 13 million before July 1st. If they do, it will save them 30 million in cap space. This is a great trade by Demps.
Not a bad trade. Guess that kills the "trade for Okafur" thread.
He could have had Scola and K.Martin taking up cap space for the next 3-4 years. Good thing Stern saved the team.
Hopefully next tweet is:
Spurs trade Matt Bonner to ....
to the Bobcats for a conditional 2021 3rd round draft pick and a pack cheetos.
This. Dell is doin' work.
My understanding may be off but I thought as long as u had not used your amnesty you could amnesty a player that you acquired via trade as long as they were on a pre lock out contract
If I'm wrong it's still a great trade due to the expiring contract or as mentioned above the ability to buy him out.
Interested to see what the hornets do with cap space
Hornets can't amnesty Lewis, but they can buy him out for 13 million instead of paying him 23 million.
Good move by the Hornets. They are rebuilding and Okafor/Ariza weren't part of the process. Next step for them is to tank too 2012/2013 to get another good pick in the 2013 draft before using their capspace in the 2013 free agency.
I don't get it for Wizards. Oklafor makes especially little sense while they have Nene and Seraphin.
I think they want to surround Wall with mature, established veterans. Plus, not that Ariza is anything special, but between him and Singleton, this frees them up to draft Beal third. A Wall-Beal-Ariza-Nene-Okafor starting five, in the East, isn't that bad, so long as Wall and Beal come at least close to living up to their potential.
Nene and Okafor can play together, because Nene's got the mid range shot and mobility to play the four, though it'll be more difficult as he ages. But, in two years Okafor's deal is up anyway, so they can let him walk and move Nene back to the five full time then. Between those two, Vesely, Booker and Seraphin, this guarantees Blatche being amnestied (if it wasn't to begin with), I would think.
I like your logic.
Blatche thread!
See I told yall we werent going to get that trade.
Good analysis.
Lately, the Wiz have had to trade some of their prospects (e.g. McGee) just because the team was collectively so immature that none of them were developing well. So this makes perfect sense as a continuation of that.
I think another part of the Wiz's thinking is to surround Wall with some veteran talent and if he still doesn't get better, it may be time to realize he is a good player, but not of superstar potential.
The Raps for a 2nd round pick
I actually like this trade for the Wiz too:
Wall
Singleton
Ariza
Nene
Okafor
Major upgrade from last year's roster. They have some other interesting young players too + the 3rd pick this year. Now if they can just get rid of Blatche. . .
Now the question is: what sweetener could the Spurs offer NO to trade Bonner into their cap space? Like Bruno said, they're not likely tie up much of their cap space this season into long-term contracts.
Actually, this becomes more feasible if the Hornets have trouble getting up to the salary floor, which is higher than in past seasons. Shamsports appears to be down, though, so I can't check the Hornets' salaries for 2012-2013.
If they buy out Lewis(very likely), they should be around $26M in committed salaries.
Great basketball move, but poor financial investment. $13 million for some guy you have no intention of having play on your team, so you can free up capspace to pay other people to play. They essentially traded to give him the equivalent of an amnesty.
It was better than paying EO for 2 more years at $28 mil and TA $15 for 2 more years....it was a brilliant financial move.
Unless you do it to sign an oft-injured Eric Gordon to a max contract and go out and overpay Chris Kaman to stay. Its not brilliant until you know what they do with the savings
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