Ludden: Sonics look to model team after Spurs

[Bruno]

...and SA gets a trade exception of $6M that they can use AFTER they fill the payroll up to the cap next summer.

No.
Trade exceptions count against the cap.
If the salry cap is at $60M, you can't go up to $60M in combined salaries and used the trade exception after.
if you want to use all the cap room, you had to renounce to the trade exception.

[Bruno]

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/soni...&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

There’s not much scuttlebutt being talked about involving Seattle in possible trade scenarios. The only rumor I heard is Seattle may be interested in Phoenix big man Kurt Thomas, but that’s unconfirmed.

http://sonicscentral.com/blog/?p=1348

I’ve got a rumor

Now this is very unsubstantiated but it does come from a guy down in Vegas where things are buzzing a bit. So have some fun with it.

According to this source the player the Sonics are currently discussing bringing in with their trade exception is Kurt Thomas of the Suns. In this scenario the Suns are looking to shave money off the luxury tax and will compensate the Sups for taking Thomas back. The deal could be just draft picks, the Suns have a ton of them. Also mentioned are that the Sonics “French Connection” of Petro and Gelabale could go to the Suns for a player. The Suns may also want Mo Sene who they tried to trade for last year. Barbosa anyone?

Thomas would be a decent veteran mentor to provide us with some insurance behind Swift and if taking his contract got us concessions on Barbosa it would get interesting. Barbosa and West can both bring the ball up the court and play either guard position. Thomas would come off the books after this season.

Suns could be ready to give way more to get rid of Thomas than Spurs for Barry.

[ducks]

I would laugh hard if suns got rid of thomas
thomas plays duncan the best on that team

[spurster]

Can we stop with Seattle stuff already ? Good luck, adios, au revoir, have a nice life, rebuild, blah blah blah...I want more rings.

Remember that Durant is another Texas angle besides Pop and Buford distributing clones all over the league.

[irishock]

Frickin' plagiarized the Spurs honestly

[flipspursfan]

Good bump

[Uriel]

Wow, amazing bump.

[polandprzem]

I was thinking about it lately and said damn you Presti

[spurraider21]

Barry, Toronto's second round pick and Houston's second round pick to Seattle for a Sonics 2009 second round pick would be rather nice. Then use the money saved to sign Udoka.

C Oberto
PF Duncan
SF Bowen
SG Ginobili
PG Parker
C Elson
PF Horry
SF Udoka
SG Finley
PG Vaughn
PF Bonner
PG Udrih

C Mahinmi
SF Sanikidze
SG Williams

Damn, that makes almost too much sense. Holt Cat stays under the luxury tax threshold. You get to rotate three players in and out of the Toros. Solid depth at each position.

Let's see if Presti can come through for the Spurs.

udoka. hehe. hindsight is awesome, eh?

[gospursgojas]

Whats a Seattle Supersonic?

[gospursgojas]

I miss Johnny Ludden