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I'm certainly happy about this move as it removes the Hornets from our playoff path. Big Ups to Sam Presti!
Agreed. They just threw in the towel to save $$. Bad deal.
W/O Chandler, the Hornets will be even easier to beat.
I'm certainly happy about this move as it removes the Hornets from our playoff path. Big Ups to Sam Presti!
So begins the Hilton Armstrong era.
Might be a rough era in New Orleans.
Byron is the coach. I'm sure he took this news kicking and screaming.
Especially when it comes to matching up with Duncan
its a bad trade for the hornets from a talent perspective. but they save a good bit of cash with it, so i get it.
and maybe im alone, but id be willing to bet that if wilcox is ever going to be marginally good, then its chris paul thats going to drag it out of him. look what he did to chandler when he first showed up in new orleans. i really think paul can make just about anyone look good. plus joe smith aint chopped liver either.
Why is NOLA clearing cap space? Are they rebuilding?
They're broke.
Joe Smith 2009 is chopped something.
It's amazing what Presti is doing in OKC... and on top of this they have 5 first round picks in the next 2 years.
I am wondering where the league, Nike, and the networks will move Cp3 to when his contract expires?
They're broke s.
Well there goes a possibility of Chandler, Wilcox, or Smith here. Hmmmm....Sheed anyone? lol
funny how they signed posey to a five year contract then chuck chandler away for money reasons. chandler was getting pretty good as a defender against duncan. now that he's gone, it's one less team to worry about in the future.
That would be Rasheed Wallace or Kurt Thomas.
The trade is done.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have completed a trade for New Orleans Hornets center Tyson Chandler, an NBA source said Tuesday.
The Hornets had been looking to trade Chandler, who has two more years worth $25.4 million left on his contract, for salary-cap relief. The Thunder give up forwards Chris Wilcox and Joe Smith and the draft rights to DeVon Hardin.
Done Deal.
Sources: Thunder get Chandler
The New Orleans Hornets and Oklahoma City Thunder have completed a deal that sends center Tyson Chandler to the Thunder, according to NBA front-office sources.
Sources with knowledge of the trade parameters told ESPN.com that the deal was
approved by the league office Tuesday afternoon, with the Hornets receiving forwards
Joe Smith and Chris Wilcox in exchange for their best interior defender.
The deal has yet to be announced by the teams, but sources say that the Hornets will also receive the draft rights to Devon Hardin, who was selected No. 50 overall by the Thunder in the 2008 draft.
The Hornets play Tuesday night against the Thunder in Oklahoma City but the players involved in the trade are not expected to participate in the game.
ESPN.com reported early Monday that the Hornets -- who have been looking to move Chandler mostly for financial reasons -- were in talks with the Thunder on a trade that would net the expiring contracts of Smith and Wilcox. Thunder general manager Sam Presti is a long-time admirer of Chandler dating to his time with the San Antonio Spurs.
The Thunder also possess numerous draft picks to sweeten trade packages -- including five first-round picks in the next two drafts -- but Presti was able to land an accomplished center to complement his promising young trio of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green without surrendering any major draft considerations.
With a payroll at nearly $67 million this season and scheduled to reach almost $77 million next season, New Orleans felt it had to part with Chandler before Thursday's 3 p.m. trading deadline regardless, even though dealing away the 26-year-old almost certainly takes the Hornets out of serious playoff contention in the West.
The Hornets were widely projected as a dark-horse le contender entering the season but hit the All-Star break as the No. 6 team in the West at 30-20 after a variety of injuries and struggles to cope with raised expectations. Chandler has been bothered all season by foot troubles and is averaging just 8.8 points and 8.3 rebounds, compared to 11.8 points and 11.7 rebounds last season.
With the Hornets unable to generate trade interest in Peja Stojakovic and unwilling to part with either Chris Paul or David West, New Orleans elected to take this deal to erase Chandler's $12.3 million salary next season from its payroll. Chandler has the right to become a free agent after the 2009-10 season in the unlikely event that he chooses to walk away from his $13.2 million salary in 2010-11.
At the Hornets' Tuesday morning shootaround in Oklahoma City, West told the New Orleans Times Picayune that he was hoping his team would resist the trade interest in Chandler.
"I don't know if that's somebody we can afford to lose,'' West told the newspaper. "So I'm not sold on that idea. You just don't find a 7-foot-1 athlete like that and he's the only 7-footer we have. Especially if we're planning on making a run into the playoffs, we're going to need size to compete with Portland, San Antonio and the Lakers. I'm not sure that would help us.''
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3913301
If this deal is only the Expirings for Chandler, then SAS should try/have tried to hijack chandler. His contract is better than VC's (whom we are supposedly interested in), and he fits better positionally.
Assuming only expirings, OKC is sending 11.5$ million of expirings for 11.3 Million of Chandler... Net loss for NO this year of 0.2 Million...
SAS could put together a package that could save NO money this year and effectively expires (the cba says we would need to send back a minimum of 8.96 Million). Oberto, Vaughn, Thomas, + Cash to buy out Oberto's partial Guarantee is a better financial deal for NO... They buy out Oberto (and I assume he resigns with us...). If need be, include splitter's rights. Alternatively, a similar package could be made with Oberto, Finley, Bowen. With either Bowen or OBerto being bought out, preferably Bowen.
I agree here, they might suck right now but they'll be contenders in a few years. The one concern about Chandler is how he needs to be involved in the offense in order to be good on defense, similar to a lot of big men. Back in Chicago he was crappy at both ends, Chris Paul getting him those 10-12 points got him going on defense.
Brandon Jennings would give them a small but effective lineup:
PG - Jennings
SG - Westbrook
SF - Durant
PF - Green
C - Chandler
I'm sure New Orleans learned from Phoenix's mistake of trading with Sam Presti and put a certain clause in the deal about who Chandler can be traded to. If they seriously did nothing to get in the way of Presti dealing Chandler to SA after seeing the KT situation last year, all I have to say is, that's irresponsible.
And the Thunder and the Hornets play each other tonight...that's gotta be weird...
I think the Hornets now have 2 very good big men... both Smith and Wilcox could give us some problems... I think the Hornets shredded salary and stood pat...
C'mon Sam...do it!
The hornets are idiots.
Hey the Suns playoff chances go up now, yay!!!!
Wtf 5 first round picks over the next 2 seasons for OKC.
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