The trade of a century...

[BawLa]

You all are some smart people but why has no one seen the obvious move. You trade for A.I. but you don't bring him here. You bring in a third team and whalla!.....

Sacramento:

Outgoing: Mike Bibby, Corliss Williamson, Vitaly Potapenko, draft picks
Incoming: Kevin Garnett, Steven Hunter

Why we do it: Duh. KG. Nuff said. We go $1.4 million over where we are now, but that is very much worth KG. The next part is key. You work your butt off and find a team, any team, that will take either SAR or KT for expiring contracts. Your obvious weakness becomes your PG spot which can be worked on in many ways. Ronnie is coming into his own and proving he can hit that outside shot and drive strong to the hoop. Then you have Douby in the making. Hart could fill the role until the offseason. Get KG first, ask questions later.

New lineup:

Price/Hart/Douby
Martin/Salmons/Cisco
Artest/Salmons/Cisco
Garnett/SAR or KT
Miller/Hunter

I'd be hardpressed to find anyone who wouldn't be willing to sacrifice the PG spot for a frontcourt for the ages. Also I'd wager Muss looks like a good coach with that lineup.


Philadelphia:

Outgoing: Allen Iverson, Steven Hunter
Incoming: Mike Bibby, Eddie griffin

Why they do it: A.I. wants out and you need to get whatever you can. Bibby can makeshift their PG role and obviously he is not only a good character, but the history/chemistry with CWebb is there. Plus you get a backup center to replace Hunter for the rest of the year. The real kicker is the fact that you will be getting $6.3 mil of cap relief and maybe a pick. Not to mention that Bibby could opt out. Then you can begin your rebuilding process. So all of A.I.'s contract would come off the books in as little as 2 years. Great way to change direction quickly and then you find a way to get the fans back. Bibby + Webber will help that. Heck, that starting lineup is not bad.

New lineup:

Bibby/Ollie
Korver/Green/Carney
Iguodala/Carney
Webber/Randolph/Griffin
Dalembert/Potapenko


Minnesota:

Outgoing: Kevin Garnett, Eddie Griffin
Incoming: Allen Iverson, Corliss Williamson

Why they do it: This is the hardest one to convince but here it is...The first premise is huge. You failed to build around KG successfully, so you head in another direction. A.I. is a great player, a championship-type piece. And he is still young enough to get something going. Mainly, it is hard to trade your franchise player, but how often can you get a francise player in return? And there is no doubt that in order to move KG, you have to find another way to fill the seats. A.I. can do that. Plus you get $6.5 million coming off the books and maybe a draft pick. Corliss is also a makeshift PF for the rest of the year while you figure out which direction to go in the offseason/draft.

New lineup:

James/Hudson
Iverson/Davis/Foye
Hassell/Jaric
Smith/Williamson
Blount/Madsen

A couple of moves for the right roleplayers to put around A.I. and you will have the fans forgetting all about KG in no time.


Again, Minny is the hardest to convince, but they were the ones who originally talked about moving KG, not KG himself.

 

[PT Cruiser 9ROC]

Makes little sense overall. Minnesota would be idiots to do this trade because what they're doing is trading away their greatest player to get a player who's on more of a decline than Garnett is. They wouldn't be improving at all, because in the end, they'd still be a one man team, only worse. Iverson would be moving from a bad situation to an absolutely HORRIBLE situation. Philly is nothing compared to Minnesota. An unhappy Iverson in Minnesota? Iverson is not the undying loyalist that KG has been all these years. What a train wreck that would be.

The only way AI is traded is if he is able to join another good player or at least a good team that makes sense competitively for the team that is acquiring him.

The only way the Timberwolves trade KG is if they get great players in return, or youth, draft picks, and a ton of expiring deals so that they can begin to rebuild. This trade does nothing of the sort for them.

The only team that truly benefits is the Kings. I know we all think the NBA is full of idiots, but there's a line to be drawn as far as idiocy goes. Not even Isiah would make this trade on behalf of the Sixers or Wolves. OK, maybe he would, but that's not the point.

 

[DETON8ER]

Enough with the KG trades.... he's not going to be traded to The kings.... he wants to go to a team which is a championship contender.

 

[Bricklayer]

Enough with the KG trades.... he's not going to be traded to The kings.... he wants to go to a team which is a championship contender.

Well, by the very amount of material that has to flow back toward Minnesota KG will be the piece to MAKE the team he goes to a contender. He just needs it to not be something where he is the only piece once again as they start over. So we are in that mix, if there is ever a mix to be in.

Unfortunately in this particular trade the weakness is that there is simply no way Minnesoita is goingt o trade away their own franchise player for somebody else's. If they're going to ride a franchise player into the ground wiht no real chance at improvement, his name will be KG, he'll retire as a career Timberwolf, and will be forever associated with that franchise. There is simply no reason for them to swap out there own super loyal do it all face of the franchise for an outsider. If KG is ever moved, its got to mean that they are finally tearing it down and rebuilding from scratch -- be about young kids, not aging superstars.

 

[BawLa]

The only way the Timberwolves trade KG is if they get great players in return, or youth, draft picks, and a ton of expiring deals so that they can begin to rebuild. This trade does nothing of the sort for them.

A.I. + draft pick + $6.5 mil expiring = great player + draft pick + expiring contract.

I know it isn't perfect, and I understand where you are coming from with the rest of your points, but "this trade does nothing of the sort for them" is a bit rude considering it does. If you don't like the trade, fine. But try not to be rude about it.

 

[Sac.Kings]

Makes little sense overall. Minnesota would be idiots to do this trade because what they're doing is trading away their greatest player to get a player who's on more of a decline than Garnett is. They wouldn't be improving at all, because in the end, they'd still be a one man team, only worse. Iverson would be moving from a bad situation to an absolutely HORRIBLE situation. Philly is nothing compared to Minnesota. An unhappy Iverson in Minnesota? Iverson is not the undying loyalist that KG has been all these years. What a train wreck that would be.

The only way AI is traded is if he is able to join another good player or at least a good team that makes sense competitively for the team that is acquiring him.

The only way the Timberwolves trade KG is if they get great players in return, or youth, draft picks, and a ton of expiring deals so that they can begin to rebuild. This trade does nothing of the sort for them.

The only team that truly benefits is the Kings. I know we all think the NBA is full of idiots, but there's a line to be drawn as far as idiocy goes. Not even Isiah would make this trade on behalf of the Sixers or Wolves. OK, maybe he would, but that's not the point.

If Philly is nothing like the Twolves, why are the wolves 9-9 (better than the kings) and philly is something like 5-13.

 

[PT Cruiser 9ROC]

A.I. + draft pick + $6.5 mil expiring = great player + draft pick + expiring contract.

I know it isn't perfect, and I understand where you are coming from with the rest of your points, but "this trade does nothing of the sort for them" is a bit rude considering it does. If you don't like the trade, fine. But try not to be rude about it.

There's a difference between offering criticism and being rude. You put up a trade proposal labeled "trade of the century", and by putting it up in public, you're asking for the opinions of others. I didn't say anything that was rude at all. I'm looking at the details of your proposal and telling you what I think is wrong with it. If you couldn't handle that, you shouldn't have made them available to scrutiny in the first place.

 

[VF21]

Official ruling: There hasn't been any rudeness so far. Let's just keep on topic okay?