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Don't want Baron's contract.
BTW, Broussard, here's how you fix the Clippers: have Sterling sell the team. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs.
1 ) Trade Baron Davis
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Bye, bye, Baron? One fix would be to deal Davis.
As great as Baron can be, he's just not motivated playing for a lousy team in his hometown. Plus, his body has been fragile his whole career, so logic says that should only become a bigger problem with age. So, the Clips have to trade him now before it's too late. Granted, that's difficult, given the fact that he has four years, $54 million left on the deal he signed last summer, will turn 30 in April and has the rep as a coach-killing malcontent. But if the Clips could find the right team that needs to make a drastic move to contend and is willing to take on the risks involved, the timing is right. And such a team happens to exist in Dallas. So offer Davis ($11.25 million) and Marcus Camby ($10 million) to for Jason Kidd ($21.372 million). This trade works under the salary cap, immediately puts Dallas near the top of the Western Conference, and saves the Clippers $61.65 million over the next four years.
Unlikely, but that'd be pretty sick IMO albeit highly risky.
Don't want Baron's contract.
BTW, Broussard, here's how you fix the Clippers: have Sterling sell the team. Everything else is rearranging deck chairs.
That would be jacked up to see Baron in a Mavs uni.
I think it was Al McGuire years ago who said a team can have one player with a bad at ude, but not two or more... because then they breed.
the future! I wanna win now now NOWWWW!!!
Why the not? I read that trade scenario and I ed in my pants.
It would never happen though, not even the Clippers are that stupid.
B-Diddy
Antoine Wright
J-Ho
Dirk
Camby
If J-Ho didn't play like a big idiot that team could actually make some noise.
holy shiet can u imagine that lineup? davis terry howard dirk camby? i would be terrified to see taht lineup in the playoffs
yea but they are cheap. if they can get out of 65 million dollars, i can see sterling backing this deal if the mavs add a 1st round pick
Lets hope LAC wont
It wouldnt be stupid of the Clippers at all IMO. saving $65 mill, the Mavs would be the ones taking a huge risk on baron's health and bad contract and would possibly end up looking stupid. BUT I LIKE THAT RISK BABY
agreed on the risk of baron heathwise, but its not like the mavs were going to have cap space to sign anyone this offseason or the next for that matter. howard dirk erick and terry are all on the books so in terms of freedom to sign a star FA, they are not risking much.
I understand what a huge deal this would be purely from a money standpoint, but let's remember that only 1 other time in NBA history has a trade of this magnitude been made where one team gave up so much while getting so little in return, claiming that the cap relief was their motive.
And we all know that collusion, and not cap relief, was the true motive.
The Clippers exist only for the Lakers to have 2 more homegames than everyone else.
that trade actually does have benefits for both teams, especially the clippers.
doing the trade means the clips can free up that logjam they have at centre and they can get rid of Baron (a player they signed probably because Brand left)
That sounds more like a "how to fix the mavs" trade to me.
Because I don't trust either one of those guys to stay healthy and I don't like their contracts. I think the Mavs should get younger, not older. I'd only do that deal if I felt it gave them a legitimate shot to win it all this year, and I don't think it does.
Youth is overrated.
If we're gonna do a youth movement, we need to just blow the whole thing up.
The best way to win a championship is to win 15-20 games, hope to luck into the #1 pick a year where a superduperstar is coming out, and then hope that superduperstar isn't a bust.
Dude, a lineup of...
Davis
Terry
Howard
Dirk
Camby
Is ing scary.
That automatically undoes the Devin Harris trade and turns it from Franchise crippling bad one - to a pretty damn good trade. Theres incentive for the Clips to do that trade too, they free up their logjam at the 5. And they also become major players in 2010.
I would do that deal in training camp. 5/8's of the way through the season? Maybe.
It's not a scary lineup, it's just a good lineup. Just one of those teams that wins 55-60 games but doesn't win it all, and is never remembered (Blazers/Kings earlier this decade, Mavs/Suns of past, Pistons every year except '04, etc).
Better than winning 45-50 and exiting in the first round.
Agreed
Which is why I wouldn't be opposed to such a trade. I do wish for our beloved Mavs to win a le but I'd prefer a deep playoff run to 9th or a 1st round exit.
But Davis's contract doesn't seem to fall in line with the Mavs plans.
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