Well I was looking at Brick's "who's dissapointed" thread and played around on realgm for a bit and came up with these three trades. Let me warn everyone, these trades are all losses in talent and I make them in the "blow it up and restart" frame of thinking. I don't think we could pull off all three or we'd have 12 guys on the roster with 4 draft picks and this isn't even counting resigning Justin Williams or Ronnie Price, both of whom I'm a big fan of.
Trade #1 -
Sacramento Trades (to Atlanta)
Mike Bibby
Sacramento Receives (from Atlanta)
Tyron Lue
Anthony Johnson
Lorenzen Wright
Pick #11
Why Sacramento Does it: Sure the players we get back are terrible, but all three are 1 year contracts, and we score the #11 pick. Is it a talent loss for the Kings? Yes, but I don't think any team much higher in the lottery would want to give up a pick for an aging star.
Why ATL does it: It's a team deep in young talent and could use some veteran leadership. You have a guy like Joe Johnson who can create off the dribble, and you already have pick #3 in this year's draft. Added to the equation is your draft pick next year is unprotected and goes to Phoenix so there's pressure to make the leap to the playoffs now.
Trade #2
Sacramento Trades (to Miami)
Ron Artest
SAR
Sacramento Receives (from Miami)
Jason Williams
Michael Doleac
Dorrell Wright
Pick #20
Why Sacramento does it:
Williams is an ender, Wright is an interesting young talent, Pick #20 could turn into a talented kid the way Petrie drafts, Artest is off your hands, and SAR's contract is off your hands.
Why Miami does it:
Miami only has so many more chances to make a run at a championship with the Wade/Shaq pairing. They have a hole at the SF spot and could probly use someone as crazy as Ron to try to match up with Lebron since you have to get through Lebron in the Eastern Conference playoffs from now on. SAR gives them a low post scorer when shaq goes to the bench and some front line depth.
Trade #3
Sacramento Trades
Brad Miller
Sacramento Receives
Bob Sura
Juwan Howard
Pick #26
Why Sacramento Does it: Sura is another ender, you score a draft pick, and Juwan Howard's contract is 1 year shorter than millers. So next offseason Sura would come off the books, and the offseason after that we get another huge chunk off the books.
Why Houston Does it: Brad Miller becomes a high post power forward to compliment Yao in the low post. Rick Adelman appreciates the fact that Miller instantly becomes the best passer on the team, and Miller's defensive failings are masked by the whole giant scary Chinese guy standing close by any time his man blows around by or through him.
To summarize, all three trades are losses in talent, all bring back draft picks and enders. I actually would love to do all three trades but we would just have too many damned players on the roster next year unless the maloofs wouldn't mind footing the bill for one year of an army of strained toes on the injured reserve. We could stash a bunch of these old guys on the IR and just hand the keys to the kids. A truly aweful aweful team would be the result for a year, but when that year was done we'd have a lot of young guys, and a good amount of contract room.
Trade #1 -
Sacramento Trades (to Atlanta)
Mike Bibby
Sacramento Receives (from Atlanta)
Tyron Lue
Anthony Johnson
Lorenzen Wright
Pick #11
Why Sacramento Does it: Sure the players we get back are terrible, but all three are 1 year contracts, and we score the #11 pick. Is it a talent loss for the Kings? Yes, but I don't think any team much higher in the lottery would want to give up a pick for an aging star.
Why ATL does it: It's a team deep in young talent and could use some veteran leadership. You have a guy like Joe Johnson who can create off the dribble, and you already have pick #3 in this year's draft. Added to the equation is your draft pick next year is unprotected and goes to Phoenix so there's pressure to make the leap to the playoffs now.
Trade #2
Sacramento Trades (to Miami)
Ron Artest
SAR
Sacramento Receives (from Miami)
Jason Williams
Michael Doleac
Dorrell Wright
Pick #20
Why Sacramento does it:
Williams is an ender, Wright is an interesting young talent, Pick #20 could turn into a talented kid the way Petrie drafts, Artest is off your hands, and SAR's contract is off your hands.
Why Miami does it:
Miami only has so many more chances to make a run at a championship with the Wade/Shaq pairing. They have a hole at the SF spot and could probly use someone as crazy as Ron to try to match up with Lebron since you have to get through Lebron in the Eastern Conference playoffs from now on. SAR gives them a low post scorer when shaq goes to the bench and some front line depth.
Trade #3
Sacramento Trades
Brad Miller
Sacramento Receives
Bob Sura
Juwan Howard
Pick #26
Why Sacramento Does it: Sura is another ender, you score a draft pick, and Juwan Howard's contract is 1 year shorter than millers. So next offseason Sura would come off the books, and the offseason after that we get another huge chunk off the books.
Why Houston Does it: Brad Miller becomes a high post power forward to compliment Yao in the low post. Rick Adelman appreciates the fact that Miller instantly becomes the best passer on the team, and Miller's defensive failings are masked by the whole giant scary Chinese guy standing close by any time his man blows around by or through him.
To summarize, all three trades are losses in talent, all bring back draft picks and enders. I actually would love to do all three trades but we would just have too many damned players on the roster next year unless the maloofs wouldn't mind footing the bill for one year of an army of strained toes on the injured reserve. We could stash a bunch of these old guys on the IR and just hand the keys to the kids. A truly aweful aweful team would be the result for a year, but when that year was done we'd have a lot of young guys, and a good amount of contract room.
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