Author Topic: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks  (Read 1232 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« on: July 22, 2014, 11:02:15 PM »

Offline jay

  • Bill Walton
  • *
  • Posts: 1346
  • Tommy Points: 50
So Danny got a draft pick from the Nets to take on Wallace.

Is it worth doing it more?

Bogans/Anthony/Fav/etc for Martin/Barea?

What about same group for Ilyasova/Mayo?

Or Bass/Thornton for Josh Smith?

Are those players to good for us to get a pick?  Would we have to give one?

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 11:15:07 PM »

Offline jay

  • Bill Walton
  • *
  • Posts: 1346
  • Tommy Points: 50
Draft picks or not, we would have no cap room for two years, and we would be interesting? but we would certainly be a bad shooting team.

Sullinger. Olynyk.  Zeller
Smith.  Ilyasova
Green. Turner.  Wallace.
Bradley.  Mayo. Young
Rondo. Smart.

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 11:16:38 PM »

Offline Mazingerz

  • Bill Walton
  • *
  • Posts: 1257
  • Tommy Points: 99
I've had enought of my share of draft picks already; We have a lot to last until 2019; I say let's saddle up and move forward;
Peavey Bass Player - relearning to play after 10 years sucks;

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2014, 11:43:49 PM »

Offline Timmio1990

  • Svi Mykhailiuk
  • Posts: 17
  • Tommy Points: 3
Yeah I wouldn't want to be in the mind set of taking on bad contracts for picks if those contracts ran beyond this year. This year is important, killing our cap space for the next few years for picks is not a great idea

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2014, 12:19:31 AM »

Offline loco_91

  • Bailey Howell
  • **
  • Posts: 2087
  • Tommy Points: 145
In general I think that's a good idea for rebuilding teams that won't be using their cap space on big FAs anytime soon. In this particular case I'm not sure, as we have so many picks already. How many rookies do we really want to be developing over the next few years? It really only makes sense if you can turn quantity into quality. Trade 5 future picks for a rare talent like Embiid, or 3 for a potential star like Aaron Gordon.

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2014, 12:41:41 AM »

Offline celticpride1

  • Jrue Holiday
  • Posts: 382
  • Tommy Points: 40
I have been saying this for this for the past few months. I was driving home thinking about the same things. We really arent going to the finals anytime in the next few years.So why not take on a few bad contracts if it means getting more talent to develop who knows maybe we get lucky and take on a bad contract from a team that barely misses the playoffs and we get a number one pick in a few years.

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2014, 12:29:20 PM »

Offline LooseCannon

  • NCE
  • Ed Macauley
  • ***********
  • Posts: 11833
  • Tommy Points: 950
That sounds like a possible Plan B if Rondo isn't re-signed next summer.
"The worst thing that ever happened in sports was sports radio, and the internet is sports radio on steroids with lower IQs.” -- Brian Burke, former Toronto Maple Leafs senior adviser, at the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2014, 12:37:21 PM »

Offline slamtheking

  • NCE
  • Red Auerbach
  • *******************************
  • Posts: 31869
  • Tommy Points: 10047
I'm not against the idea but wouldn't take on any player who's not an expiring deal.  we'd be able to give up a few players that the other team could immediately cut to save $.   

Also, I would want something better than a highly-protected second rounder coming back.   either a decent young player as part of that salary dump or a protected first that becomes unprotected after a few years.

Re: Trading for bad contracts with draft picks
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2014, 12:48:56 PM »

Offline mgent

  • Tiny Archibald
  • *******
  • Posts: 7567
  • Tommy Points: 1962
Too soon.  We need a core first.  Rondo is a start but we need at least 1 or 2 other guys before we can start committing money and rounding out the roster.  Otherwise what happens if Rondo leaves and we have to start from scratch with a....

Bradley
Mayo
Green
Smith
Ilyasova

...crap-fest that we would owe 130 million dollars to with no hope of trades or cap space.
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