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With Bosh at PF and Ming at C Houston's front court would be able to overwhelm the other team with estrogen.
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
BOISE, Idaho -- Here are the best (and last) dribbles of chatter from the NBA grapevine as collected from various executives, scouts and insiders who gathered to watch 16 teams play two games each in a four-day span at the annual D-League Showcase:
Some 40 days from the league's annual trading deadline, no one in Boise could say with any certainty that the Toronto Raptors are going to be willing to move Chris Bosh ahead of the Feb. 18 trade buzzer.
No one has a firm read on Toronto's intentions yet.
What we did hear, though, is that the Houston Rockets have made it known that they would be willing to trade for Bosh immediately … even if they don't get a guarantee they can re-sign him this summer.
That's the problem with any sort of Bosh deal at midseason. Even if the Raps do decide they want to make Bosh available now and avoid the threat of losing him without compensation in free agency after July 1, there's an overwhelming majority of teams that wouldn't dare consider trading for Bosh in February without some sort of assurance they could keep him.
But Houston is different.
Sources say the ever-aggressive Rockets are sure a half-season in Houston could convince the native Texan to pledge his long-term future to a city players love as well as a team that sits four games over .500 without the injured Yao Ming and the exiled Tracy McGrady. The Rockets also have the requisite stash of young assets, as evidenced by their success this season without marquee names, to assemble a legit deal for Toronto to consider … and without insisting that McGrady's mammoth $22.5 million salary has to be part of it.
You figure Chicago, Miami and New York also are on the short list of teams that would be willing to risk trading for Bosh before we get to the summer. Those are the teams thought to have the best shot at signing him in free agency and could inherit Bosh's Larry Bird rights with a deal before the deadline. None of them, though, can offer a better talent deal than Houston. The Heat and Knicks -- with their heavily stripped-down rosters as the countdown continues to July 1 -- can't come close.
The Raps recently have inched back to .500, just got point guard Jose Calderon back from a hip injury and still expect bruising forward Reggie Evans to start playing in the second half of the season after recovering from a foot problem to provide some needed toughness. So there's a good case for Toronto to put off any major decisions until the offseason.
The Raptors have long believed, furthermore, that Bosh will participate in a sign-and-trade this summer -- if he decides to leave Canada after saying repeatedly that he loves the place -- before walking away outright from the franchise that drafted him.
I nonetheless was advised this week to expect Houston to make a hard Bosh push during these next 40 days if the Raptors invite it. Or perhaps even if they don't invite it.
That tale alone made it a worthy trip.
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With Bosh at PF and Ming at C Houston's front court would be able to overwhelm the other team with estrogen.
Just like Nash and Flopamire....Don't forget the Igoudala trade can still be had as well
I wonder if they would accept an Amare for Bosh trade. Maybe not considering Amare will probably opt out.
Flopamire? Youre giving him to much credt. In order to flop you have to at least be pretending to be play defense.
Amare makes Chris Bosh his more or less every time the Suns play the Raptors, and Nash is like the opposite of Yao Ming. Nash has made the most that can be made out of a frail undersized unathletic player, while Yao Ming has made the absolute least that can be made out of a 7'6" giant who was bread by communists specifically to play basketball.
My guess is Yao is pretty much finished.
It's not like Scola is good on defense either, Bosh is just way more effective on offense....Scola got punked by David West to the tune of 44 points
Nate Robinson can't wait.
On a serious note, that front court would be dirty.
I don't see how Morey could get this done without giving up McGrady's contract, but if he does, I would expect the Iggy trade to get done as well
and expect him to say no thanks
...just like LeBron will to Cleveland.
T-Mac, Carl Landry, Kyle Lowry, and Chase Budinger for Bosh, Jose Calderon, and Marcus Banks works.
They'll trade Scola before Landry
We're giving up too much, if they were to sign and trade him no way would they get anywhere near that.
Scola, Ariza, Cook, Taylor for Bosh works
Sorry Houston fanboys. Me and my grampa knees are headed up to Canada for Mr. Bosh.
I doubt they would agree to that though, they'd probably want Landry and one of our point guards plus filler. Either way I hope we can get him.
Yeah you're right, but here's an interesting thought. What if Morey isn't including McGrady in this deal because he is dangling McGrady towards another team in hopes of acquiring talent from that team along with another player to send back to Toronto?
And the Rockets won that game regardless.
I wonder if Chris Bosh has any lingering injury problems.
History doesn't lie, look at any superstar that was signed and traded in the past 10 years and see what they got back. Now that's ing funny.
I was just gonna say this. Landry is way too efficient a scorer and too athletic to let go. Scola will be let go although you hate to lose him too.
If Morey does this without giving up T-Mac, then I'd say the Rockets could go after a premium shooting guard or SF. Say...like Lebron James? LOL
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