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  • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

    Sources say that the league-owned Hornets remain adamantly against buying Kaman out if they can't trade the 7-footer and that Kaman has been warned not to expect a buyout if no trade is consummated. ESPN.com
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    • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

      Shelvin Mack?


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      • http://tracking.si.com/2012/03/09/re...gh-draft-pick/

        The Boston Celtics attempted to trade shooting guard Ray Allen to the Indiana Pacers in exhange for forward Tyler Hansbrough and a first-round draft pick, according to NESN.com.

        The deal was killed, according to reports, because Larry Bird — the Pacers’ president of basketball operations — thought the price was too high.

        “Here’s the thing,” Bird said. “When Danny (Ainge) and I talked about trading for Ray, he wanted Tyler Hansbrough and a first-round pick. If that’s the value he’s putting on Ray Allen, he ain’t getting it. That tells me he’s in no hurry to trade him.”

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        • Originally posted by PacersCenter View Post
          Shelvin Mack?
          Eh Do we need another undersized two guard trying to play point?

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          • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

            I still want him.



            http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...3t9dSreK.8vLYF


            Of course Josh Smith wants to be traded from the Atlanta Hawks. There hasn't been a week that has gone by since Atlanta selected him in the 2004 draft that either Smith or his team hasn't considered the possibility of some sort of separation. Atlanta would love to move the guy, in order to find a more orthodox interior threat to pair with and/or replace the injured Al Horford, or a near All-Star point guard to break things down when that Hawks offense gets staid. But it's Josh Smith, so nobody's buying.

            That's the way it is with Smith, from fans, the media and other teams. We respect the heck out of him when he's got it all together, but we're not interested. Fans of 29 other NBA teams will read this column; and while you appreciate Smith's gifts, would you want his style of play and maddening up and downs on your team, at his eight-figure price, while having to give something significant back to Atlanta in the exchange?

            Probably not. Even expiring deals, as Bill Simmons mused about here, seem to be too much for someone owed over $13 million next season. This has everything to do with Smith's averages, because though they're impressive (17 points, 10 rebounds, 3.5 combined blocks and steals), they're just averages. They're what he ends up after all his per-game stats settle, and not something you can depend on every night.



            Smith should have been an All-Star this year. He's that good, and his contributions are worth that level of acclaim. But he remains the ultimate "nah, we're good"-player. Not unlike Philadelphia's brilliant Andre Iguodala, Smith's all-around contributions put a team in place to go over the top, but they don't put a team over the top. Unless it's a very good team. Unlike Iguodala, though, Smith isn't consistent, and he is still relying on raw talent alone to fill up that stat sheet. This isn't a case of selfishness, he's just stuck some eight years in.

            This is why he's a luxury of a player. Someone for Dallas to trade for, if it were two years ago. Someone that you don't mind writing off when he chucks a series of corner long-twos and doesn't box out, because he's not as important (despite his All-Star gifts) as the four other go-to guys on your very good team. And unless your team isn't very good, and doesn't mind paying through the teeth for Smith's contract, there's no reason to have him on your team.

            In this financial landscape, with even the Los Angeles Lakers potentially cutting their championship hopes off in order to save luxury tax money, who is going to take on Josh Smith? Respect him as an opponent, sure. But on your team? Nah, we're good.

            This is also why the Hawks are likely to ignore his trade request. Because they've proven, for the last half-decade or so, that they're happy where they're at. Middle of the pack in the East, not a lot of potential to move up (the matchups, even at full strength, just aren't there), but able to still make that playoff revenue even if a significant part (like Al Horford, this season) goes down with an injury.

            With or without Al, the Hawks need Smith. They need him to fill in the empty spaces, and are willing to pay him large amounts of cash and ignore those awful set-shot instincts of his to do it.

            They're right to, by the way, because Smith is an expert defender when he's engaged, and he sets up all manner of random possessions for that predictable Hawks offense because of his ability to cause turnovers or grab (if not box out for) rebounds on both ends. On any other team properly utilizing him, he'd have to be a luxury. But because the Hawks are so committed to this brand of basketball because of their financial and personnel choices, Josh Smith is an utter necessity.

            Which is why they're more than happy to overlook passages like this from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Michael Cunningham:


            The person said one of Smith's complaints is that he believes the Hawks didn't do enough to promote him for selection to the All-Star team, which he thinks contributed to lesser players being voted to the team by Eastern Conference coaches. Smith, an Atlanta native who has played his entire eight-year career with the Hawks, also would like to play for a franchise he believes is more committed to winning a championship.

            Smith (or, more specifically, Smith's buddy) is right and wrong when it comes to discussing Atlanta's commitment to a championship. In terms of payroll, and spending LeBron James-level cash on Joe Johnson, they're pretty committed to a championship-level debit sheet. It's focused on the wrong people, including Smith, which is why we can write off the Hawks as not being "committed to winning a championship."

            The other part of that passage is the most annoying. Players who aren't voted in by fans as an All-Star starter have to make the team through a coach's vote. And head coaches will sometimes lobby other head coaches to influence their assistants to vote for certain players. Or, teams will send out promotional items to teams, hoping to sway that vote.

            The problem is that NBA assistant coaches are filled in equal measures with crusty old school-types, and new school thinkers who have more stat sheets in their hotel room than they do friends on Facebook. And either side ("Bad attitude, doesn't box out"; "shoots 27 percent on long 2-pointers, easily the worst shot in basketball") has a reason to dismiss Smith, even if he probably should have been an All-Star. No amount of campaigning from head coach Larry Drew or Atlanta's front office would have made a difference. Even if, yeah, he probably should have been on that team.

            Stuck in another season of the same old thing in Atlanta, a bored Smith (and people close to him) have this to fixate on. Because, with Smith and the Hawks, things will always be the same.

            Which is why, following the March 15 trade deadline, they'll probably still be with each other.
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            • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

              I really hope they make a trade for "the guy"




              http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...wwaQFU8Cm8vLYF


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              Just because the Indiana Pacers can make a deal, it doesn’t mean they should

              Everyone's leaning on the Pacers these days. With less than a week to go before the March 15 trade deadline, Indiana's cap space and impressive ranking in the East (pretty safely ensconced in the fifth seed) make Indiana the team every desperate NBA squad and desperate media outlet's favorite fallback trading partner. The Pacers are good but have plenty of holes; the team has the flexibility to make a transaction without having to send any players back, and personnel chief Larry Bird has never been hesitant to swing a deal or two.

              What helps, though? Chris Kaman? Jamal Crawford? Why do the Pacers need to make a deal, just for the sake of movement and using up all that available cap space?

              One watch of one half of Pacers basketball, and the team's needs become obvious to the viewer. Indiana badly covets a point guard that can create for others, and they need more fans to fill in (and speaking as someone who lives in Indiana, Hoosiers can really "fill in") those seats at the fieldhouse with a corporate sponsor that the team plays in. Kaman and Crawford aren't solving anything, in this regard, and it's questionable as to how the Pacers can justify even meeting the salary cap limit with the league's 29th-worst attendance.



              On top of that, the Pacers seem unwilling to go after both Crawford and Kaman if it means giving up something we rarely see value in -- a middling non-lottery first-round pick. This is according to the Indianapolis Star's spot-on beat reporter Mike Wells.

              In most years, the 26th pick in the draft (the space where the Pacers would currently work from, entering Friday night's action) is one of the least-enviable spots to choose from, because you could be wasting a guaranteed contract on training camp fodder. This draft is deeper than most, and (more importantly to this writer, who knows absolutely nothing about this year's potential draftees) the Pacers will need a player to step in once they clear the books this summer. A contributor on a slim contract, following an offseason that might see the Pacers either whiff on free agents or stack the deck with a top-heavy team with little depth, is going to be worth his weight in gold.

              Assuming the Pacers don't draft a woman. Troglodytes. Get with the times, Larry Bird.

              Even with 11 players under contract for 2012-13, the Pacers have enviable depth presuming all options are picked up and the team doesn't sign and trade a litany of rotation fillers away. It's not championship depth, to be sure, and the Pacers are still lacking that franchise player in spite of Danny Granger, David West and Roy Hibbert's past All-Star appearances, but outside of those All-Stars the Pacers boast nothing but solid contributors on tiny contracts. And yet they'll still have nearly a maximum deal's worth of cap space to spend this summer.

              So to toss out a first-round selection or A.J. Price just for two months' worth of a player that might be redundant? It wouldn't be the worst deal in the world, but we can understand if the Pacers give this trade deadline a miss.

              This won't stir the echoes in Indiana, though. For whatever reason, this team isn't connecting with fans; possibly because we're all out of money and like staying home to take in the Pacers on TV or radio (the team sports possibly the best radio/TV combo in the biz).

              If the Pacers make a deal, it has to be for someone that stirs the imagination of those who are bored with this team. Not just because of the exposure that deal would create, but because the team needs a superstar. We don't often talk in these terms, but the Pacers need a game-changer, and someone opposing teams just can't counter. Sometimes team ball just isn't enough; and this part is being written in a vacuum, irrespective of the team's attendance woes.

              It has to be for Rajon Rondo. It has to be for Steve Nash. It has to be for someone that absolutely tips the scales. Because Indiana has size, interior scoring, frontline depth, help on the wings, and able defenders all around. They have a fantastic third guard that happens to start, in Darren Collison. They have everyone besides the guy that can create a 12-2 run on his own. They need Rondo, or Steve Nash. Neither, unfortunately, might end up in Indy; though both would work in any number of two or three-way packages that would take advantage of Indy's many movable parts and cap space.

              (Ray Allen, sublime player that he is, will not be included in that stratum. And not for Tyler Hansbrough and a first-round pick, a deal that makes no sense for either the Pacers or the Celtics.)


              Beyond that, there's really no point. If the Pacers do pull off a trade for a lesser light, it'll blow up on Twitter that afternoon, 14 websites will come out with analysis of the deal, and it will be an absolute afterthought by the time Ersan Ilyasova turns 25 years old on May 15. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
              The Pacers won't be winning a championship this year, but they're one of the deeper teams in this league even in cost-cutting mode, and they've done a terrific job in Frank Vogel's first year considering the new parts, shortened season, and "wait 'til 2012-13"-stance. If the Pacers pass on any moves during this trade deadline, it shouldn't be a disappointment to the team's fan base.

              And it wouldn't kill them to go to a few games, now and again.
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                Chris Mannix: Kyle Lowry still not in the mix for any deal involving Pau Gasol, sources say. Twitter
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                • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                  Been going back and forth on trades that would work for both sides. Love rondo and think he would do wonders here. That being said, we do have to give up some core pieces to get him, but think we are ultimately a better team after

                  Collison+granger+kaman( two 2nd rounders and maybe Lou or aj) for rondo and Allen
                  ----C's do it bc they get much younger and deeper, a solid starting center in kaman who is only 29 a young point guard and a borderline all star

                  Or

                  Collison+hibbert for rondo, then trade for kaman

                  ----do the C's want a young all star center in hibbert for rondo? Probably, but Roy will get paid big time this summer...I think both of these offers are fair, benefiting both sides. I think the C's would be more interested in first trade IMO
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                  • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                    2 future 1st round picks?


                    The Orlando Magic have called teams to ask about their interest in trading for starting small forward Hedo Turkoglu prior to Thursday's NBA trade deadline, reports Marc Stein of ESPN.com, but have found little interest in the 32-year-old. "It's one thing to try to foist Turkoglu on a team that's trading for [Dwight] Howard," Stein says, "and quite another to try to move Turkoglu, or any other vet in Howard's supporting cast, when Dwight himself isn't part of the deal."

                    Turkoglu, whom the Magic re-acquired from the Phoenix Suns in December 2010, is averaging 11.2 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 4.7 assists for Orlando during the 2011/12 season. The Magic are hoping to add another star to complement Howard, and Stein says Turkoglu's name "is the first" Orlando's offered to opposing teams in trade talks "over the past week or so."

                    One "front-office source" Stein consulted for his story says the Magic would need to include "at least two [future] first-round picks" to entice another team to take the two years and $18 million remaining on Turkoglu's contract.

                    Since starting the 2011/12 season strong, Turkoglu's productivity has dipped sharply, as the 12-year veteran is shooting just 37.1 percent in his last 20 games.
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                    • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                      Originally posted by PacerPride33 View Post
                      Been going back and forth on trades that would work for both sides. Love rondo and think he would do wonders here. That being said, we do have to give up some core pieces to get him, but think we are ultimately a better team after

                      Collison+granger+kaman( two 2nd rounders and maybe Lou or aj) for rondo and Allen
                      ----C's do it bc they get much younger and deeper, a solid starting center in kaman who is only 29 a young point guard and a borderline all star

                      Or

                      Collison+hibbert for rondo, then trade for kaman

                      ----do the C's want a young all star center in hibbert for rondo? Probably, but Roy will get paid big time this summer...I think both of these offers are fair, benefiting both sides. I think the C's would be more interested in first trade IMO
                      Neither trade would work. Your first trade has to much salary going to Boston. Your second trade has to much salary going to Indiana.

                      If you don't know about the following site, check it out, It's cool!

                      http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine
                      Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL

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                      • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                        Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                        2 future 1st round picks?
                        His final year (2013) is a 6mil payout on his non-guarantee final year. That is a heck of a deal. Hedo is not that bad of a player for 1 year of him and getting 2 1st. The dude just can't find his shot.

                        If Danny could be traded for a good pg, I would actually do this. Infact, I know a trade that would go really well, but I couldn't figure why to (so called) pull the trigger. Granger to Clippers for Mo Williams and Ryan Gomes and Wolves 2012 1st rnd pick.

                        This would give 3 2012 1st round picks and 2 2013 1st round picks. This would be a lot of assets for big time trades...just sayin!
                        Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL

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                        • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                          Originally posted by vnzla81 View Post
                          2 future 1st round picks?
                          yes his contract is awful but IMO this is the type of deal we need to do and if the Magic want to get rid of him bad enough they would need to give us at least 2 1st rd picks. I hope we can do a trade like this at the deadline.

                          Hedo's contract would come off the books when it is time to pay George and others.

                          Hedo would really help the offense in terms of ball movement he wouldn't be my first choice to pull a take a bad contract for picks but it wouldn't be that bad especially if Dwight bolts.

                          the Hornets own the Wolves 2012 pick pacer fan and even if they didnt I am not a fan of that trade Mo Williams isn't a big enough upgrade and isnt the type of pg I think we need.
                          Last edited by pacer4ever; 03-10-2012, 02:31 PM.

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                            Originally posted by pacer4ever View Post
                            the Hornets own the Wolves 2012 pick pacer fan and even if they didnt I am not a fan of that trade Mo Williams isn't a big enough upgrade and isnt the type of pg I think we need.
                            Your right, don't know what I was thinking. The clips give Hornets the most favorable of the Clippers 2012 1st picks which will prolly be Wolves pick going to Hornets. Then the Clippers still have their own 2012.

                            Your prolly right too on Mo. I just heard acouple months ago about the Clippers needing another piece and Danny would be a great fit but they don't have much to offer back to the Pacers. With a Hedo possibly coming in then I seen the opportunity of Danny's salary going out for a PG. You have someone in mind that would fit? A trade of Danny for point guard? I don't see Boston wanting Granger at all. Of coarse this is under the assumption of Hedo being a Pacers.
                            Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL

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                            • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                              Just because the would need to give 2 1sts doesn't mean they are actually thinking about giving 2
                              Did you know Antonio and Dale aren’t actually brothers?

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                              • Re: 2012 NBA rumors thread part II

                                Originally posted by TheDavisBrothers View Post
                                Just because the would need to give 2 1sts doesn't mean they are actually thinking about giving 2
                                True, but It's fun to think about.
                                Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL

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