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The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« on: December 05, 2011, 06:50:44 PM »

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Trade 1:

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Clippers trade:  Eric Gordon, Chris Kaman (expiring), Al-Farouq Aminu, Randy Foye (expiring), Ryan Gomes (2 years left), 2014 #1, 2016 #1

Magic trade:  Dwight Howard, Hedo Turkuglu (3 years), Chris Duhon (3 years), Quinton Richardson (3 years)

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Clippers trade:  DeAndre Jordan (S&T), Eric Bledsoe, Mo Williams (2 years), unprotected 2012 Minnesota #1

Hornets trade:  Chris Paul, David Andersen

I don't know, is Jordan, Bledsoe, and a potential top-5 #1 pick enough for CP3?  Maybe not, especially without a ton of salary cap savings for New Orleans.  However, it's at least a credible deal.

As for the Magic trade, the deal gets them a star SG, a competent center for a season, a decent young SF, all kinds of cap relief, and a couple of #1s.  I don't know if that's better or worse than the reported Brook Lopez deal, but again, it's credible.

If this somehow happened, the Clippers would look like:

C:  Dwight Howard
PF: Blake Griffin
SF: Hedo Turkuglu
SG: Free agent (MLE)
PG:  Chris Paul

Bench:  Bunch of scrubs, whoever they can sign with the bi-annual exception

It wouldn't be a very deep squad, but that team would be set up to dominate for a decade.


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Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2011, 07:29:41 PM »

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See I would watch that team

Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2011, 07:41:57 PM »

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Neither trade should be accepted. Both offers would be topped by someone else.

The Clippers can make an excellent bid for one of them but not both.

Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2011, 08:19:17 PM »

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Neither trade should be accepted. Both offers would be topped by someone else.

The Clippers can make an excellent bid for one of them but not both.
that is true, but still can you imagine either CP3 to Blake Griffin alley-oops, or a front court of Howard and Griffin. They would have almost the same amount of star power as the Heat and be better longer

Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2011, 08:21:48 PM »

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Neither trade should be accepted. Both offers would be topped by someone else.

The Clippers can make an excellent bid for one of them but not both.
that is true, but still can you imagine either CP3 to Blake Griffin alley-oops, or a front court of Howard and Griffin. They would have almost the same amount of star power as the Heat and be better longer

Yeah, it may not be 100% realistic (although still better than a lot of the proposed trades you see), but it sure is fun to think about. 


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Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2011, 09:50:18 PM »

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I reckon the clippers would still find a way to lose games.


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Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2011, 09:56:08 PM »

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Howard + Griffin wouldn't need CP3.
Philly:

Anderson Varejao    Tiago Splitter    Matt Bonner
David West    Kenyon Martin    Brad Miller
Andre Iguodala    Josh Childress    Marquis Daniels
Dwyane Wade    Leandro Barbosa
Kirk Hinrich    Toney Douglas   + the legendary Kevin McHale

Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2011, 10:02:54 PM »

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I think the Clips stand pat with the young talent they have like OKC did.


Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2011, 10:03:09 PM »

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Bad owners never make very good deals that kind of blows this out of the water.

Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
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Neither trade should be accepted. Both offers would be topped by someone else.

The Clippers can make an excellent bid for one of them but not both.

i have to agree with Who here.
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Re: The trades to turn the Clippers into a dynasty
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2011, 10:35:06 PM »

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There might not be a single factor that's more important to players and less important to neutral fans than ownership.  Even if these trades went through (unlikely) I don't think Howard and Paul stay with the Clippers, because Sterling has a reputation for being cheap, a prick to his players, and someone with a very sketchy racial history in his other businesses.