To Minny: Marcus Thornton / Vitor Faverani
To Boston: Kevin Martin / Gorgi Dieng
it works money wise - Maybe we give Minny a future first, protected - or some second round picks? Although as we'd be relieving them of Martin's contract with Thornton's expiring I'm not sure we'd have to give them picks.
Minny gets a decent young center behind Pekovic who they're invested in, as well as a decent back up in Faverani. If we gave them the Clipper's pick next year they could pick up another young center as well.
The reason I might stretch for this deal is to get Dieng. I think he could be a very good part of our center rotation moving forward and is the exact opposite of Zeller - being more of a defensive rebounding center.
Zeller / Dieng
Sullinger / Olynyk
Nice 1-2 punch at the 4/5, particularly if all these young prospects continue to develop to the peak of what their ceilings appear to be.
Zeller / Dieng / Joel Anthony
Sullinger / Olynyk / Bass
Green / Evan Turner / Wallace
Bradley / Martin / Young
Rondo / Smart / Pressey
That's a helluva second unit. From there you have / could:
1. Anthony, Bogans & Bass coming off the books for about $15.8 mil
2. A slew of First and second round picks
3. Possibility of packaging some combination of Green, Bradley and some combinations of picks for a major upgrade at SF.
In the meantime though, if that team gels I think it could be very competitive.
Thoughts?