Trade Deadline Approaching...
"The Lakers have an $8.9 million trade exception, acquired from the Dallas Mavericks for Lamar Odom, to absorb salary. Sessions makes $4.3 million this season and has a player option for $4.6 million for the 2012-13 season."
reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.
Minny giving up Beasley and Derrick Williams as priciples in a trade for Monte Ellis and Biedrins. Monte and Biedrins can run with Rubio and Minny would still have Tolliver, Randolph and Johnson as tweener 3's. Those are that that hard to fine and since Kahn demands a roster with at least 5 of them he can pull off some other deals. This would allow David Lee to be traded for a mid to late first round pick also. The Warriors are 2 to 3 years from contention and they need to act like it. Dwight Howard.......... come on son...... Klay slides in at the two and guaratees the Warriors finish with a back enough record to keep there protected pick this year.
Houston have all those guys on rookie deals with the 4th year option not picked up like Thabeet and Flynn so I could see them perhaps looking to try and do something with those.
Total wildcard could be that a contender maybe tries to snag Jamieson from Cleveland or the Cavs buy him out and he gets picked up and they make a saving and also don't do quite so well for the rest of the season to improve their draft position
Who do you think are some teams that are going to trade players? Will Magic move Dwight? If so, where?
Personally, I'd like to see Dwight move to Golden State. I know thats not one of his choices, but with a core of Dwight and Curry and an up and coming coach in Mark Jackson I think they would be a very tough team.
Trade: Ellis, Udoh/Lee, Biedris, Rush/Wright and 2 first rounders for Dwight and Hedo.
Also some teams I obviously see making moves would be the Celtics, Lakers, Rockets, New Orleans, and New Jersey. As for dark horse teams I could see the Suns pulling off a trade, maybe the Mavs, and possibly the Knicks as well (even though that wouldn't be a very dark horse team cuz the Knicks are always active around trade time.)
What are some realistic trades you think could go down? (please no BS trades with like Kobe for Pierce or something)