who would you like in the starting 5 next year?

[fnordius]

Washington's position in the draft has me interested for the same reason -- they could very well be open to a deal for that pick to get immediate help to put around the Big Three.

Yeah...

My starting 5 are based on that same premise:

1. Rubio or Wall
2. Kevin Martin
3. Garcia, while breaking in Greene, I suppose. Can we get an ender for Nocioni?
4. JT/Hawes
5. Hawes while breaking in Thabeet

The two things I've been saying that we desperately needed for the last few years were a quality floor general and a defensive big. We still need those. If, by whatever means, we could get those this summer, I'd be very content.

 

['89 Kings Fan]

PG Rubio/Teague/Crittenton
SG Martin/Garcia
SF Butler/Greene
PF Thompson/Nocioni/Jeff Adrien
C Hawes/R. Lopez

Injured:
Etan Thomas

Draft Rubio #1 or #2, Draft Teague #23, Jeff Adrien #31

Trades:

1st Beno + Kenny Thomas + Cap Space = Caron Butler + Etan Thomas + Crittenton

Why the wizards do it: $8 Million in Luxury Tax Savings.

2nd Trade: Sheldon Williams Trade Exception = Robin Lopez

Why the Suns do it: They're cheap that's why.

ESPN highlights can start calling Rubio to Garcia/Nocioni/Lopez hightlights the latin connection. (I am trademarking that right now.) We might not make the playoffs next year, but we certainly will be exciting.

 

[bigbadred00]

PG Rubio/Teague/Crittenton
SG Martin/Garcia
SF Butler/Greene
PF Thompson/Nocioni/Jeff Adrien
C Hawes/R. Lopez

Injured:
Etan Thomas

Draft Rubio #1 or #2, Draft Teague #23, Jeff Adrien #31

Trades:

1st Beno + Kenny Thomas + Cap Space = Caron Butler + Etan Thomas + Crittenton

Why the wizards do it: $8 Million in Luxury Tax Savings.

2nd Trade: Sheldon Williams Trade Exception = Robin Lopez

Why the Suns do it: They're cheap that's why.

ESPN highlights can start calling Rubio to Garcia/Nocioni/Lopez hightlights the latin connection. (I am trademarking that right now.) We might not make the playoffs next year, but we certainly will be exciting.

Why Rubio and Teague? Seems like overkill at young PG. Also I would love to trade Beno and Kenny for essentially Caron Butler but why on earth would Washington do that?

 

['89 Kings Fan]

Why Rubio and Teague? Seems like overkill at young PG. Also I would love to trade Beno and Kenny for essentially Caron Butler but why on earth would Washington do that?

There are $8 million reasons. With a top 3 pick next year the Wizards are going to have $80 million in salary. They are going to have to dump someone, and I think Butler for them is the easiest to move. To get this done we might have to take Pecherov for a trade exemption as well. That would make it $11 Million in savings.

This team has needed a backup PG since Bobby left the first time. The Jason Harts and Bobby Browns of the world are not going to cut it. I think Teague can be are Barbosa and you can never have enough speed in today's NBA.

 

[sidney]

This team has needed a backup PG since Bobby left the first time. The Jason Harts and Bobby Browns of the world are not going to cut it. I think Teague can be are Barbosa and you can never have enough speed in today's NBA.

If Teague drops to #23 you just take him. He's lightning quick to the rim and a great shooter. I doubt he drops that far but if he does I wouldn't care if we already had Rubio.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

There are $8 million reasons. With a top 3 pick next year the Wizards are going to have $80 million in salary. They are going to have to dump someone, and I think Butler for them is the easiest to move. To get this done we might have to take Pecherov for a trade exemption as well. That would make it $11 Million in savings.

There's been some speculation around these parts that if they're not happy with their draft position, the Wizards might be willing to let their pick go basically for cap/tax relief. If they were to package the pick (~$3M) and Etan Thomas ($7.3M) for say a low pick (~$1M) and a small contract (another $1M) they'd save ~$8M in salary and about the same amount in tax. They might even be able to slide under the tax if they did it right. That comes out to about $16M in savings, which is pretty nice if they don't like any players in their draft slot.

Problem is (from our point of view), they'd have to find a team far enough under the cap to absorb all that money. We won't be far enough under the cap to do it. If we have a trade exception worth on the order of $6M, we could make the salaries match, otherwise that would be a no-go.

 

[usballer33]

Hey! I'm a long time reader and fairly new writer to the board. I dont think this could actually happen, but I would love this to happen in the offseason. Like I said, don't know if trades work salary wise but I would like it.

Trades (Only if SAC get #1, OKC gets #2, and WAS gets #3)

SAC-OKC
#1 (Griffin), Garcia, #31 for #2 (Rubio), Green, #25

SAC-WAS
#23, #25, Thomas (expiring), TE ( from Shelden Williams) for #3 (Thabeet), Thomas, Stevenson

SAC-BOS
Nocioni for Scalabrine, T. Allen, Giddens, Walker

Kings:
PG: Udrih, Rubio
SG: Martin, Stevenson, T. Allen
SF: Green, Greene, Giddens, Walker
PF: Thompson, E. Thomas, Scalabrine
C: Hawes, Thabeet

2010 expirings: Thomas, Scalabrine, Allen, Stevenson (PO), Giddens, Walker

I like this team with Rubio eventually being the starter.

 

[Gary]

The OKC trade is exactly what myself and Startingtohurt were thinking about. It's pretty much win win situation if we had the 1 and OKC had the 2.

But I am not sure Washington would trade expirings, and two picks for expirings and a top pick. Really doesn't do much for them. I know they have cap situations, but they can get rid of salary w/o having to get rid of picks.

 

[Kings Faithful]

The OKC trade is exactly what myself and Startingtohurt were thinking about. It's pretty much win win situation if we had the 1 and OKC had the 2.

But I am not sure Washington would trade expirings, and two picks for expirings and a top pick. Really doesn't do much for them. I know they have cap situations, but they can get rid of salary w/o having to get rid of picks.

I hope the pieces fall for a potential trade with OKC as well... id prefer if we could keep Garcia and ship Noc (as much as I like him) but if it requires Garcia leaving to get it done, so be it.