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I guess you could make a case for Ellis and Carter being similar, but Carter is unproven and so far too injured in his career to be much value on the open market. I'd love to trade Lavine (I don't like his game), but his contract makes him of questionable market value. And then there's Monk...

Exactly. It's not as if they are overflowing in redundant talent at a position so they trade for another position to balance the team. More than anything, it's a zero sum game - losing in one area to gain in another. The best case I can make is that by trading someone like DDR they can...

What does aggressively move up even mean? To the bottom of the first round? Top 5? Who knows. Hard to envision a deal for even a top 10 1st rounder with a team that has to husband every bit of ammo they can muster.

Yeah, he's a combo guard, but he probably would benefit from Chris Paul coaching.

All I've heard over the last decade is his positive influence on individual players and teams. If we had a young point guard to develop I couldn't think of a mentor better than Paul, but I guess that point is moot because we don't have a good point guard to develop. I just have to laugh.:D

Adding Chris Paul to a team is essentially getting another assistant coach, or possibly a head coach in waiting. I don't see the harm in that for this Kings' team.

I want the Pacers, but it's probably OKC in 5 or 6.

If Perry is as good politically as some think, I could easily see him presenting alternatives to Vivek that he (Perry) has arranged to promote the team that Perry wants in the future. In other words, Vivek is not going to be involved on a granular level in conversations Perry is going to be...

If he doesn't come back, the whole Lavine/Fox trade thing will be even worse. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I agree wholeheartedly. It should give impetus to trade those guys. If the Kings gain more defense and lose points by way of trading those guys it will be up to Keegan and others to take up the slack, and I think that's a good thing. By the way, I'm not in the camp that believes that Lavine...

Sure it's understandable. It underscores how much of a neophyte Christie is. If Perry deferred to Christie, now that would be something.:)

We will see fairly shortly some elements of a plan. Hard to be terribly optimistic, given everything that has gone on. At this point I would settle for a team with so-so talent, but above average toughness. If they go for an older team I don't think it will be very entertaining for me, as it...

Christie sure seems to have done a lot of deferring to Perry, in his assistant coaching selections, for example. I've heard Christie say how much he's relying upon Perry. I could easily see that mindset extend into the actual coaching of the team.

Like a broken record......Murray and his shooting/ball handling. For years now I haven't been convinced Murray has not had the proper off-season training regimen. We'll see this off-season if it continues to be same ol' same ol'.

Lyles isn't much of a wing defender. The only good wing defender we have now is Murray.