Trade Idea: Barry and Elson for Kurt Thomas

[sabar]

Why would SEA trade an expiring contract for expiring contracts, especially when they have more use for K. Thomas than the sh1t we'd be sending them?

Question.

And that's why this deal is a pipedream. No reason for Seattle to pull the trigger. Also, why would they want to make our team better?

[Holt's Cat]

So you send them a 2nd round pick for the remaining 30 games of Kurt Thomas' regular season. Plus why do the Sonics need Thomas now? If anything, they will want to suck worse heading into the lottery.

[Holt's Cat]

Since when are the Sonics gearing up for the playoffs?

[T Park]

Who were the crazy idiots who were wanting the spurs to make this move a month ago? I remember a thread can someone refresh my memory. Tpark ? anybody?

Crazy like a Fox.

Kurt Thomas would make this spurs team unbeatable.

[Holt's Cat]

So the Sonics end up with a 2nd round pick for Thomas and Elson to replace him in the frontcourt so they can suck worse. What is bad about this for them?

[T Park]

Yeah Elson would just ride the pine the rest of the season for them. He wouldn't see minute one behind Petro, Wilcox, and Swift.

[Ghost Writer]

So the Sonics end up with a 2nd round pick for Thomas and Elson to replace him in the frontcourt so they can suck worse. What is bad about this for them?

What's good about it for them?

A 2nd round pick?

[T Park]

Salary cap space, and the second round pick yes.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm reasonably convinced Thomas is signed through '09, so the trade makes sense for the Sonics.

[Ghost Writer]

Salary cap space, and the second round pick yes.

They'll have cap space by keeping Thomas until the summer.

So you wanna sell them on sh1t for a 2nd rounder.

And you have the nerve to get mad at me for grasping at straws.

[Ghost Writer]

I'm reasonably convinced Thomas is signed through '09, so the trade makes sense for the Sonics.

Can we get a definitive answer on this?

[T Park]

all the more reason for the Spurs do it.

Mahinmi Splitter come in replacing Elson and Horry

Thomas is added, Spurs get a good defensive minded good shooting big man and can leave Mahinmi in Austin for another year to develop or use him as trade bait.

[T Park]

They'll have cap space by keeping Thomas until the summer.

So you wanna sell them on sh1t for a 2nd rounder.

And you have the nerve to get mad at me for grasping at straws.

So getting nothing for Thomas > 2nd rounder?

Genius.

[Ghost Writer]

It's unlikely the Sonics will want to part with Kurt Thomas because they likely would receive young talent or draft picks in return, and Seattle already has six picks in this year's draft. Seattle needs veteran pieces to build a nucleus for a playoff contender, and as the starting center, Thomas has provided a much-needed inside presence defensively and on the boards.
"It's part of the business," Thomas said of the trade rumors. "I know you hear it all the time. But I've been around for a while, so it doesn't bother me.

"I haven't been a free agent for a while. It's just something I'll look to when this summer comes up and see what's best for Kurt and his family." -- Tacoma News Tribune

Just as I suspected.

Next.

[T Park]

It's unlikely the Sonics will want to part with Kurt Thomas because they likely would receive young talent or draft picks in return, and Seattle already has six picks in this year's draft. Seattle needs veteran pieces to build a nucleus for a playoff contender, and as the starting center, Thomas has provided a much-needed inside presence defensively and on the boards.

So Seattle is willing to let him walk for nothing when he signs with someone else and not have anyone to show for it?

I don't think Presti is this stupid.

[ChumpDumper]

Can we get a definitive answer on this?

Not really.

I suppose throwing cash in the deal would pay for some moving trucks, though.

[Spurminator]

I'd give them a 1st rounder. Why not?

[ChumpDumper]

Hey, he refers to himself in the third person.

Now we have to trade for him.

[T Park]

I just now caught that. He sounds like the dude from Seinfeld in the gym.

"Kurt likes that"

[T Park]

I'd give them a 1st rounder. Why not?

in 09? Sure.

This year? ehhhhhh, ok yeah.

[Holt's Cat]

When Seattle makes the playoffs again Kurt Thomas will be dead. Stupid ing Ghost falling for that quote.

[td4mvp21]

It's unlikely the Sonics will want to part with Kurt Thomas because they likely would receive young talent or draft picks in return, and Seattle already has six picks in this year's draft. Seattle needs veteran pieces to build a nucleus for a playoff contender, and as the starting center, Thomas has provided a much-needed inside presence defensively and on the boards.
"It's part of the business," Thomas said of the trade rumors. "I know you hear it all the time. But I've been around for a while, so it doesn't bother me.

"I haven't been a free agent for a while. It's just something I'll look to when this summer comes up and see what's best for Kurt and his family." -- Tacoma News Tribune

Just as I suspected.

Next.

On to Antoine Walker!

[Xylus]

If the Spurs get Kurt Thomas, I'm going to kill myself. Seriously, I'll put a knife to my throat and end it.

[LEN BIAS 4EVER]

if they throw in a couple trucks full of free Starbucks coupons for Spurs fans than I say give them a first rounder.

[T Park]

If the Spurs get Kurt Thomas, I'm going to kill myself. Seriously, I'll put a knife to my throat and end it.

Don't do that.

Other Suns fans that threaten the lives of players like the guy that had the fake bomb threat, they can go ahead and do that.