http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=q38xtpv
BOS receives: Amar'e Stoudemire, Tim Hardaway, Jr., rights to Thanasis Antetokounmpo, 2015 NY 1st, 2018 NY 1st
NY receives: Rajon Rondo, Gerald Wallace, 2015 LAC 1st
We get a likely lottery pick, nice young talent in H. Jr. and maybe Antetokounnmpo, another 1st in 2018 and unload Wallace's contract. The reason I ask if it works or not is because I'm uncertain on the status of New York's 2015 1st if we give them the Clippers' pick... Does that free it up to trade? If so, what do we think of a deal like this?
Another lottery pick to go along with ours should give us an asset pool substantial enough to land Karl Towns, whether by luck of the lottery or a trade.
Smart, Bradley, Hardaway, Jr., Young, Sully, Olynyk and Towns become their core guys. They still have all the BKN picks. That could be a great team. Plus this gives us cap space to work with for years either via trade or free agency.
could the trade be done? yes.
Should the trade be done. hell no. this is horrible.
your premise of the 2015 Knicks pick being in the lottery is a fallacy. Rondo with Melo and company will be a playoff team in the East. in 2018, with NY having a lot more cap room to use under a much higher cap and being a solid franchise for recruiting top talent, that 2018 pick will be well out of the lottery too.
hardaway is yet another SG coming to a team loaded with SG's. Amare is another PF coming to a team loaded with PFs (he's not a center regardless of whether NY plays him there occasionally).
The throw in player is being thrown away by the Knicks so that's a useless piece.
Getting rid of Wallace's contract this year means nothing. why bother? he's an expiring deal next year when we have some cap room and we can use his now-expiring deal as salary balance to bring in a very good player making good money. this deal doesn't make us a contender at any time in the foreseeable future so there's no advantage or point to moving Wallace a year early.
The only thing this trade does is make the team worse in the hopes of increasing the odds in the lottery. there's no longer a prime player on the team to draw FA's to the franchise so now all are eggs are in one basket --> hoping to land a top lottery pick that turns into a franchise player at some point that we're capable of resigning. That is an extremely iffy philosophy of getting back to winning titles.