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Idea: Two ways to get DeMarcus Cousins on the Celtics.
« on: May 22, 2013, 01:39:38 AM »

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Posted something similar in a long rant about rebuilding in another thread, thought this was a reasonable idea or two.

1) Clippers need wing player and they also need a better defensive big.
KG must accept a move to LA and sending both Pierce and KG would make the Clips more likely to say yes but it's possible they may take just Pierce for added scoring and to dump Jordan's horrid contract.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=qz2kl9x

BOSTON to LAC: Paul Pierce
BOS to SAC (via CLIPPERS) Deandre Jordan + Eric Bledsloe + 16th pick
SAC to Boston: Demarcus Cousins+ John Salmons+ Willie Green (via CLIPPERS)

Money works. Clippers get scorer to help CP3 but now need interior help. KG would be perfect obviously.

Other way is to send KG too if he agrees...
We take back Salmons and Hayes deals. These are fine because Salmons has one year and then a team option and Hayes has 2 years at 5.5 million.
Grant Hill gets sent to us but he's retiring so that comes off the books.
We get Jamal Crawford who is great value at 5 million for 4 years, a very tradeable contract at any time.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=o2633dd


2) The second involves moving Pierce to LAC with Jordan Crawford, whilst Isaiah Thomas goes to LAC from the Clips to replace Bledsloe as the back up PG.

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=pppz7hb

Meanwhile, we send a package to the Kings of

Jeff Green
Avery Bradley
Brandon Bass
whilst flipping DeAndre Jordan to the Kings as part of the deal.

We get Bledsloe to replace Bradley, and we move Bass's deal (they might take Terry but they'd prefer Bass for the long haul).
They get a solid small forward in Jeff Green and are now looking at a starting unit of:

Lottery pick PG (Dennis Schroeder)?
Avery Bradley
Jeff Green
Bass/ Jason Tompson
DeAndre Jordan

I'd say that the Kings would demand Bledsloe which we'd have to try and deny them. We'd probably get away with it but Danny could ask them for a future first rounder for Bledsloe.

We end up with

Rondo
Bledsloe/Lee
Sullinger
Cousins

The aim is to build around Rondo, Sully and Cousins and we should be able to get an all star caliber wing player. With some some excellent three point shooters for our big men to kick out to.
Cousins and Sully in the paint would be ferocious and Rondo steering the ship would be an excellent core...similar to Memphis with Gasol, Zeebo and Conley only younger and more athletic with hopefully better perimeter shooting help.

These would be the junk we're taking on for 2 seasons but Hayes is okay, Salmons is a good back up SF and hopefully Terry will find a new home.
Salmons( 1 year @ 7 million)
Outlaw ( 2 years @ 3 million)
Hayes ( 2 years at 5 million)
Terry(2 years at 5 million)
Lee(3 years at 5 million)
Melo
Terrence Williams
Shav Randolph

Grant Hill retires
Willie Green has a team option at 1.5 million which we may as well keep or cut if we want to.

If we cut Green and Hill retires that's another 3.5 million in cap room leaving us 16.5 million in cap room for a free agent or to take on a bad contract or two for a year to gain a draft pick.

We'd most likely be going to the lottery but we'd have Rondo and Cousins, Sully and Bledsloe (or Bradley) with a tone of capspace after salmons deal finishes...at least 24 to 30 million free with DMC and Rondo going into free agency. We also have the restricted rights to Cousins as a free agent).
In 2 years we may have a lottery pick with a great free agent class coming up or we've signed an all star scorer SF and a shooting guard.





« Last Edit: May 22, 2013, 04:29:36 AM by chambers »
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