From Local 2 KPRC:
Sources: Knicks and Rockets Talking; Rockets Not Commenting
NBA Trade Deadline is Thursday
POSTED: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Houston -- The NBA trade deadline arrives later this week and in Houston all eyes are on Tracy McGrady.
While the Rockets organization is not commenting on any potential move regarding Tracy McGrady, two league sources told KPRC Local 2 February 12 and again Sunday night that McGrady, who is in Chicago, is preparing for a trade to the New York Knicks.
One source, who is very close to the McGrady camp, told KPRC Local 2 Friday that McGrady was prepared to travel to New York by the "middle of this week".
Sunday night the New York Times also reported talks were underway between Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey along with Donnie Walsh and Arn Tellem and that both sides were attempting to get a deal done without a third team involved.
Another NBA league source confirmed with KPRC Local 2 that talks were held Sunday but it was unclear if the two sides were close to striking a deal.
The NBA trade deadline is Thursday. The Rockets resume play at home Tuesday against the Utah Jazz.
http://www.click2houston.com/sports/...81/detail.html
Pure stupidity....Wilson Chandler better be in any such deal
The Knicks are seriously in the pursuit of the 2010 FA class.
I can see them dumping pretty much everybody to get lower under the salary cap so they can get two elite players.
If the Knicks can pick up 2 star players, they're right back in business at the top of the Eastern Conference.
They have NOTHING we want, except Chandler, and Gallinari, which they would be stupid to give up
LeBron stays in Cleveland
D-Wade to Chicago
and NY just gets Bosh
thats what I see happenin
I just want McGrady to play somewhere, I mean the poor guy and his doctors say he's ready...but the Rockets dont let him play....so might as well send him somewhere else where he can play..
He brought this on himself......23 million, no, not poor at all, in any sense....
Hopefully we can get Hill out of this deal.
I don't get it.
There's no reason for the Knicks to acquire TMAC unless the Rockets are willing to take back Jeffries or Curry as part of the deal. I just can't believe that Houston has any interest in either one of those players.
I don't get it either. This whole situation turned into the worst possible situation that coulda happened because of the stupidest reason. I can smell a terrible move on the Rockets part.
Then again, I thought the Lowry deal was bad too.
I thought the plan was the agree on a buyout? Lucky for the Rockets that it's not though, I think that's the worst possible outcome to that situation for them
New York will be the laughing stock of the basketball world if LeBron and Co. go somewhere else.
What the holy ?????
After losing out on Caron Butler(notes) to the Mavericks, Houston has gotten serious with bids for Thomas and Washington’s Antawn Jamison(notes), sources said.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...yhoo&type=lgns
trading the future and financial flexibility for a No-D Jamison to bid for a playoff berth of this season? Seems like the Rockets are too famish to judge and select what's edible from what isn't.
Hopefully it's a smokescreen
There were all kind of signs that the Rockets' talks with the Knicks are ongoing.
They are not the only ones. The Rockets are still also talking with Chicago and Philadelphia. The New York thing might be agent driven, and still seems to have more of a feel of a fall-back plan, a chance to get expiring-contract help and a move under the luxury tax.
Chicago might be willing to move Luol Deng, but like Caron Butler, he does not seem to be the guy the Rockets want for as much cap room as he'll occupy, and for a lot longer than Butler.
There did not seem to be much three-team talk going, but maybe that's a way to get after Andre Iguodala.
The impression in Dallas was still that no-deal had the greatest chance of happening, at least when it comes to Tracy McGrady's expiring contract. If they're still talking, however, there clearly are goals, and a chance.
http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2010/02/r..._and_im_s.html
Knicks in serious talks for McGrady
By Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc J. Spears
The New York Knicks are getting closer to reaching the Houston Rockets’ demands for Tracy McGrady and his $23 million expiring contract, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The Knicks and Rockets have designed the framework of a deal that would unload New York’s Jared Jeffries, Jordan Hill and either Al Harrington or Larry Hughes for McGrady, Joey Dorsey and Brian Cook.
As talks stood on Monday, the price of dumping the burdensome contract of Jeffries – who is owed $6.9 million next season – comes with the Knicks and Rockets exchanging 2011 first-round picks and the Knicks’ 2012 first-round choice going to Houston. New York also might include a 2010 second-round pick.
The Utah Jazz own the Knicks’ first-round pick in 2010.
The completion of the deal isn’t imminent, but sources involved in the discussions are increasingly confident that after months of back and forth, which intensified over All-Star weekend, an agreement is within reach.
One of the hang-ups in the deal, sources said, could be the Knicks’ inclusion of either Harrington or Hughes. There are slight variations of the trade that would change depending on which of the two veteran Knicks’ expiring contracts are included. With Harrington over Hughes in the deal, the Rockets wouldn’t need to include Cook.
For the Knicks, the trade would accomplish two important things: First, it would get Jeffries’ salary cleared out, something general manager Donnie Walsh has tried to do since taking the job. This would give the Knicks even more flexibility to be a major player in this summer’s free-agent market. Also, the Knicks want to take a good look at McGrady and let him play as much of a role as he can handle the rest of the season. They may consider re-signing him for next season, based on his performance.
Rockets GM Daryl Morey would get Hill, the untested eighth pick in the 2009 draft, and first-round picks that could prove valuable. This will get the Rockets a significant measure of value for McGrady, who they exiled in December. McGrady, sources said, is excited about the possibility of joining the Knicks.
rockets would get the knicks 2011 and 2012 first round picks!!!!!!!! Yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
?
New York has BEEN the laughing stock of the basketball world for years.
So, the Rockets would get
Harrington, Jeffries, Hill, Knicks 2011 and 2012 First round picks, and a second round pick
And The rockets are going to have their own lottery pick this year
Yeah, basically since they blew $100 million on Allan Houston in 2000.
Knicks better get LeBronze next year or Morey just ate their future
Knicks better get LeBronze next year or Morey just ate their futureTrue, if this deal does go down, and the Knicks fail to sign any big free agents, this may have the potential for a fail so big that it surpasses Epic (for the Knicks)
That would be hilarious to see them in the lottery and giving their high picks to Houston 2 years in a row.
We are going to get 3 ing lotto picks from the Knicks?!?!
We're only swapping 2011 picks, assuming their pick will be better than ours. We are given their 2012 pick, which may or may not be a lotto pick, and maybe a second rounder. If you include Jordan Hill who was a lotto pick this year, I guess you could say we are potentially getting 2 lotto picks from them.
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