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Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« on: February 11, 2014, 12:37:00 PM »

Offline Lucky17

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Stop devising that 47th iteration of a "Bass or Green to borderline playoff team for 1st round pick plus salary relief" trade idea, back away from the Trade Machine, and read this.

http://grantland.com/features/the-nba-swap-meet/
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Re: Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2014, 12:44:10 PM »

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YESSSSS....been waiting for this.

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like that is always lethal." - Evan 'The God' Turner

Re: Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2014, 12:54:57 PM »

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"The new collective bargaining agreement has resulted in shorter contracts, leaving fewer toxic long-term deals that teams are willing to dump in exchange for expiring flotsam."

"There are a lot of teams, if they’re being honest, that would probably like to get off multiyear contracts clogging their cap sheet: New Orleans (Eric Gordon, Tyreke Evans), Detroit (Josh Smith), Denver (McGee, perhaps J.J. Hickson), Milwaukee (almost everyone), Orlando (Glen Davis), Sacramento, (Marcus Thornton, Jason Thompson, Carl Landry), Washington (Martell Webster), New York (stop laughing), Oklahoma City (Kendrick Perkins), Cleveland (Jarrett Jack), and Chicago (Carlos Boozer, an amnesty candidate, and perhaps even Taj Gibson)."

Zach forgot to mention G. Wallace's contract as one among the relatively few remaining albatross contract.

Re: Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2014, 01:04:17 PM »

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TP for this. Love Lowe's stuff and the whole GrantLand staff. A few notes,

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One grim reality for those craving trade madness: Most of the contenders, one-piece-away pseudo contenders, and buyers desperate to win now have already dealt away future first-round picks. The list of such teams includes Miami, Indiana, New York, Brooklyn, Washington, Golden State, Detroit, Portland, Dallas, Memphis, Minnesota, and the Clippers.
This is an enormous factor that has been pointed out to me recently in people I've chatted with. Certainly throws some cold water on people hoping for a solid Green/Bass market.

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The value of expiring contracts, once such juicy assets, has been in continued decline for years.
Celtics are likely better off keeping Humphries but some fans continue to insist that expirings have very good value.

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they’ll either have to orchestrate another three-team trade or part with one of the Harrison Barnes–Klay Thompson duo.
(Fantasy trade alert) Really hope Ainge is back on the phone with Golden State. Klay would be a dream pairing with Rondo.

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Boston has kicked around almost every intriguing “buy low” piece in the league, especially guys on rookie deals. The Celtics have an appetite for low-cost risk on high-upside talent, even talent with “attitude” issues
Waitors is interesting and I wonder if Ainge could view him as a Bradley replacement. Don't like the fit of him and Rondo though at all.

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Tim Connelly, the team’s well-regarded new GM, is still getting a feel for what he has here.

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Darrell Arthur’s collapse

This guy hasn’t been nearly the same since an Achilles injury suffered after he was such an integral part of Memphis’s surprise 2011 playoff run.
The same "well-regarded" GM who made the bafflingly dumb trade of Kosta Koufos (young, cheap, defensive center) for Darrell "I use to be decent" Arthur?
*CB Miami Heat*
Kyle Lowry, Dwayne Wade, 13th pick in even numbered rounds, 18th pick in odd numbered rounds.

Re: Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2014, 01:38:43 PM »

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I would love Barnes but I have no idea what package we could give them that would make them better than what he gives them now.  Barnes, O'Neal, Bazemore, and Speights for Bradley and Green?
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Re: Zach Lowe's Trade Deadline primer
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2014, 01:40:15 PM »

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Tim Connelly, the team’s well-regarded new GM, is still getting a feel for what he has here.

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Darrell Arthur’s collapse

This guy hasn’t been nearly the same since an Achilles injury suffered after he was such an integral part of Memphis’s surprise 2011 playoff run.
The same "well-regarded" GM who made the bafflingly dumb trade of Kosta Koufos (young, cheap, defensive center) for Darrell "I use to be decent" Arthur?

Koufos was traded to clear playing time for McGee and Mozgov.  That may have been dictated by ownership, which got rid of George Karl for not playing McGee.

Trading a useful player for pennies on the dollar to clear playing time for other players is usually a bad move.

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