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First of all, teams with expiring contracts have assets.
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I wouldn't call Evans and Banks "assets". Chandler had a 13m expiry and Charlotte traded him for... cap relief (Dampier, whose contract isn't guaranteed). In other words, they didn't flip their "asset" into anything special, they just eliminated it. Banks and Evans won't get us anything special.
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Cleveland was able to acquire Antawn Jamieson with the expring contract of Ilgauskas, and Gasol was obtained by the Lakers by trading the expring contracts of Kwame Brown, Aaron McKie and the their draft pick Javaris Crittenton.
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And 2 1st rounders and this guy named Marc Gasol, I heard he's pretty good... how can you forget the most important parts of the deal?
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Second, teams with trade exceptions & cap room have the ability to absorb a bigger contract to obtain a young prospect. Last Year, OKC was able to obtain Eric Maynor because Utah Jazz wanted to dump the salary of Matt Harpring.
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And? Everyone already knew that...
Having a TPE and cap room doesn't mean we'll be contenders in a few years like you claimed... We got a TPE because we lost
Bosh and we'll have cap room just like any other team in the league.
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There is a rumor that Jose can get us Roy Hibbert.
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Keyword being: Rumor
To be more precise... "Internet message board Rumor that was started by someone on.... Twitter"
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So yes, the expring contracts of Banks, Evans, trade exception, and Jose Calderon can net us several good players in return. Hopefully, some good young prosepcts. |
Man, god bless your soul. I know you want nothing best for this team, as do I, but I want you to be more realistic. You're just setting yourself up for disappointment. An over-paid, not top 20 NBA PG starter in
Calderon isn't going to get us a prospect on a rookie-scale contract. You've got to be kidding me...
Best case scenario, we'll get another Diaw-like-player on a shorter-term.