Trade for Roy Hibbert in the off season?

[c-webb1s#1]

With his declining stock i do think he could be had for a reasonable price! How would you all feel about giving up a piece and the 7th pick?

 

[randymoss1881]

I'm sure the conversation would have to start with Ben/pick. But I would do it

 

[ESP47]

Why would the #1 team in the East trade their all pro defensive center?

 

[cuad]

Hibbert and Cousins can't play together.

 

[macadocious]

Loooooool. Hibbert is easily on a top 10 no trade list. Also , lol that cuz and Hibbert couldn't play together.

 

[mac]

Yeah good luck selling Indy on that one.

 

[bajaden]

Someone is smoking some serious crap!

 

[Gary]

Nah, I cannot see Indy doing that. Not even for the first or second pick. Unless they wanted Embiid for Hibbert?

 

[c-webb1s#1]

Hibberts stats for the season:

PPG 10.8
RPG 6.6
BPG 2.2

FG% 43

If Indy does bad in the playoffs i could easily see Hibbert being traded, not sure where all the untouchable comments are coming from lol

 

[LPKingsFan]

I think they're more concerned with this stat.

 

[Gary]

Hibberts stats for the season:

PPG 10.8
RPG 6.6
BPG 2.2

FG% 43

If Indy does bad in the playoffs i could easily see Hibbert being traded, not sure where all the untouchable comments are coming from lol

Hibbert gives them defense. Everything else is gravy. They're not going to give him up.

 

[c-webb1s#1]

I think they're more concerned with this stat.

Yes of course, he is a great defensive player. However if the Pacers lose vs the hawks in the first round id expect someone to be traded and that would most likely be Hibbert. Pacers fans are none to pleased with him at the current moment lol

 

[randymoss1881]

Yes of course, he is a great defensive player. However if the Pacers lose vs the hawks in the first round id expect someone to be traded and that would most likely be Hibbert. Pacers fans are none to pleased with him at the current moment lol

And it looks like he doesn't want to be there.

 

[Bricklayer]

Yeah, his availability along with Sanders' this offseason is getting more and more likely. Interesting.

Wonder about Chandler too, but he's old of course. Varejao. Asik. Lots of possibilities for a motivated buyer. All expensive.

 

[JLoss22]

i don't want this dude, no heart and can't control his limbs.

 

[SacKings2002NBAChampions]

I have a hard time seeing Hibbert stay after all the drama this season. He obviously has beef with multiple players on the squad including but not limited to their star player--Paul George...

He would be an amazing pickup but we would need to get a SF replacement after letting Gay go in order for everything to work out with Cap.

 

[randymoss1881]

If easily trade our pick for Hibbert only reason I wouldn't add Ben is Hibbert has a opt out after the season.

Our defense becomes infinitely better with the best rim protecter in the league. On offense he would be better here to cause I see other teams putting there PF on him and not on DMC.

 

[Tetsujin]

I laughed at this thread when I first saw it but, after the continued meltdown of the Pacers, things are starting to look more and more up in the air. While I'm not sure what eh price would be or his exact place on our team, there is no denying that having a Hibbert/Cousins frontline is enticing, to say the least. Our team's rebounding tenacity helps to make up for the fact that he rebounds like a SG. While his salary is certainly another hurdle, he's enough of a game changer that if the Pacers dangle him out there, I'd bite, especially if we somehow were able to shuffle off either JT or Landry's contract to help ease the burden, which is about as likely as me sleeping with Kate Upton.

I'm glad Brick brought up Chandler because that's an option that I've been interested in for, perhaps, the last seven or eight years. Not only is he (sorta) local-ish but he would give us a strong veteran presence in the locker room. That all said, his contract is poopy and he's most likely going to want to play for a ring at this stage in his career rather than be the Obi-wan Kenobi to Demarcus's Luke Skywalker.

With all the big men being floated out on the trade market at this point, you'd expect to be a buyers market but big men of course are the exception rather than the norm. At this point, I think Sanders is the cheapest option but he of course has several cargo jets worth of baggage. Hibbert on the other hand is probably going to cost an arm and a leg but may also be capable of changing our defense from crappy to snappy. Choices choices.

 

[randymoss1881]

What would Phil want for Chandler though would he go for our pick/JT I would do that.

 

[LPKingsFan]

This year's pick for potentially only one year of a 32 year old Tyson Chandler is an overpay, and this is coming from a guy who's wanted Chandler on the Kings since the mid-00s.

That said, if Melo walks, he may become available. Not sure what they'd want in return, though.

 

[Gary]

I laughed at this thread when I first saw it but, after the continued meltdown of the Pacers, things are starting to look more and more up in the air.

Same.. Watching the Pacers play it's obvious that Hibbert is trying to make a statement that "without me you guys will lose". Not sure what that's going to mean in the off season, but I retract my previous statement because it looks like Indy is tired of the guy and Hibbert needs a fresh start.

 

[beb0p]

It's still just a pipe dream. Indy is not going to trade Hibbert unless he has another disastrous showing in 14/15, then they may start to wonder.

Asik is definitely on the market although he's expensive. DeAndre Jordan could potentially be available depending on what Sterling does.

 

[randymoss1881]

It's still just a pipe dream. Indy is not going to trade Hibbert unless he has another disastrous showing in 14/15, then they may start to wonder.

Asik is definitely on the market although he's expensive. DeAndre Jordan could potentially be available depending on what Sterling does.

Hibbert has a opt out next season and from the look if it he hates it in Indy would Bird take a chance of loosing him for nothing.

 

[Livinthedream]

PDA is developing a rep for obtaining underperforming talented from teams where the player has worn out their welcome, so this is very possible.

The question is, what does it take to get him. Hopefully not our #7.

 

[macadocious]

PDA is developing a rep for obtaining underperforming talented from teams where the player has worn out their welcome, so this is very possible.

The question is, what does it take to get him. Hopefully not our #7.

What? If the pacers would trade us Hibbert for the #7 I am snap hanging the phone up like Moneyball so they can't change their mind.

 

[Uncia03]

I would imagine there are a lot of fans of teams who are salivating over the potential to have a disgruntled Hibbert join their team. Of course none of the other teams have the most dominant big man in the game who would thrive with a defensive big to back him up.
There might be better fits next to Cousins (Ibaka, for example), but it is a very short list. We'd have to rely on a great scheme by Malone to deal with the million PnR situations teams would force both Cousins and Hibbert into, but I think that could be managed. If there was any way to go into next season with Cousins, Hibbert, and Rudy it would be very difficult for me to pass on that. And if I had to give up a 7th pick in the draft as the primary piece I wouldn't hesitate to make a deal.

 

[jalfa]

sidenote re: Hibbert's rebounding, while it's true that he doesn't get a whole lot of rebounds, his teams have always rebounded better with him on the floor. he takes up so much space and blocks people out that it gets easier for other guys to get those rebounds. or flat steal them, like Lance Stephenson does. Nene does this as well.

 

[Hadlowe]

While I am generally a fan of Hibbert's, I can't see putting both Cousins and Hibbert on the floor as a winning combination. Both of them are paint clogs. With the way teams are building with stretch 4's in the west, you need someone who can defend a perimeter big man. To me, it's an either-or proposition with Hibbert and Cousins, and I prefer Cousins.

 

[Livinthedream]

What? If the pacers would trade us Hibbert for the #7 I am snap hanging the phone up like Moneyball so they can't change their mind.

I have liked Hibbert in the past, but his utter collapse worries me to some degree. His lack of rebounding for half the year, despite his size worries me. His inability to produce against an athletic team like Atlanta is troubling. Yes, I want Hibbert, but I'm no longer sure of his trade value.

 

[Tetsujin]

I have liked Hibbert in the past, but his utter collapse worries me to some degree. His lack of rebounding for half the year, despite his size worries me. His inability to produce against an athletic team like Atlanta is troubling. Yes, I want Hibbert, but I'm no longer sure of his trade value.

Hibbert's never really been a rebounder and, with his frontcourt mates being Demarcus and Rudy (and Reggie Evans off the bench), he wouldn't really need to be. The Atlanta series is mayhaps a bit troubling but Pero Antic's game is pretty much diametrically opposed to Roy's since he primarily camps out on the perimeter, which means Hibbert's being forced completely out of his comfort zone. By no means am I trying to make excuses for the guy because he's been historically bad this series BUT the Hawks, as currently constructed, are pretty much the perfect team to play the Pacers. A bunch of perimeter guys who are already allergic to entering the lane and an undersized power forward that is too quick for Hibbert or either of the slow old guys beside him (West and Scola) to defend