Raptors & Kings firesale?

[Gagnrath]

A fire sale generally means they want expirings or young cheap players.

Spurs are a little low on young and cheap, though they do have a few expirings. Bad news is neither of those teams have much to help the spurs that they would get rid of. Cousins is about it and while I would take a flyer on being able to fix him his value is probably higher than Blair, Mills, and a second rounder.

[maverick1948]

As best as I can see, everyone on this thread thinks we are going to get a top player in trade for little or nothing. Why would Toronto or Sacramento give us someone like Bargnani, Cousins or Thompson for our end of the bench players? We should be looking for a 4th big on their roster that would help us. Toronto has Bargnani, Amir Johnson, Ed Davis and Aaron Gray as their top 4 with Val out for 4 to 6 weeks. Aside from Davis, I dont want a single one of their front line. Sacramento has Cousins, Thompson, Robinson, Hayes and Johnson in their front line. The first 3 are their future if they can hang on till Cousins matures. I dont want Hayes as we already have Blair for a super short PF/C. That leaves James Johnson from Sacramento.

Ed Davis is not going to be traded for our bench, he is too good. That leaves us with one player on the two teams that we could trade our scrubs in enchange for him. Johnson is a former 1st round pick at #16 in 2009. In 87 games with Toronto, he started 65. He averaged 9+ pts/g and 4.7 reb. Plus he added 1+ blocks and 1+ stls per game. Stats show Johnson is a better defender than Bonner. Would Sac take Matt Bonner in trade for Johnson? Would the Spurs make the trade? Your guess is as good as mine. I don't know. Should the trade be made, we would get about 800,000 in cap relief and not give up the open roster spot.

[TDMVPDPOY]

maloofs want 500m for the kings...lol no way that team is even worth 500m

[Andthentherewas21]

As best as I can see, everyone on this thread thinks we are going to get a top player in trade for little or nothing. Why would Toronto or Sacramento give us someone like Bargnani, Cousins or Thompson for our end of the bench players? We should be looking for a 4th big on their roster that would help us. Toronto has Bargnani, Amir Johnson, Ed Davis and Aaron Gray as their top 4 with Val out for 4 to 6 weeks. Aside from Davis, I dont want a single one of their front line. Sacramento has Cousins, Thompson, Robinson, Hayes and Johnson in their front line. The first 3 are their future if they can hang on till Cousins matures. I dont want Hayes as we already have Blair for a super short PF/C. That leaves James Johnson from Sacramento.

Ed Davis is not going to be traded for our bench, he is too good. That leaves us with one player on the two teams that we could trade our scrubs in enchange for him. Johnson is a former 1st round pick at #16 in 2009. In 87 games with Toronto, he started 65. He averaged 9+ pts/g and 4.7 reb. Plus he added 1+ blocks and 1+ stls per game. Stats show Johnson is a better defender than Bonner. Would Sac take Matt Bonner in trade for Johnson? Would the Spurs make the trade? Your guess is as good as mine. I don't know. Should the trade be made, we would get about 800,000 in cap relief and not give up the open roster spot.

Toronto wants to get rid of Bargnani as they've finally realized he is part of the reason they continually suck and they are willing to take expiring contracts to dump him. They've all but come out and said they are going to wait til he is healthy, play him a few games to demonstrate it, and then ship him out. Not that I want Bargnani, but he could be had for what the Spurs could offer.

[Gagnrath]

maloofs want 500m for the kings...lol no way that team is even worth 500m

Honestly the Sacramento area strongly supports the team when they have a halfway decent product, (Know this from having lived there for the last few years of them being good with Webber, Bibby and a few others.) Honestly the Maloofs are vegas people and are trying to force the League to allow them to move the team there.

[exstatic]

tbh, the only player in the original post that would interest me is Sacto's Evans. We're going to need a SG in a couple of years.

[maverick1948]

Toronto wants to get rid of Bargnani as they've finally realized he is part of the reason they continually suck and they are willing to take expiring contracts to dump him. They've all but come out and said they are going to wait til he is healthy, play him a few games to demonstrate it, and then ship him out. Not that I want Bargnani, but he could be had for what the Spurs could offer.

You just stated the biggest reason we dont need him as a Spur. If Toronto sucks with him then we dont want him.