Bulls / Knicks: Hughes for Mobley

Ray Allen Iverson · Post #1 » by **Ray Allen Iverson** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:14 pm

* This trade is based on the assumption, that New York's plea for a 4.5m$-Exception was declined.

New York's outgoing salary: $16,572,500
Chicago's outgoing salary: $19,978,859 (= less salary than $16,572,500 x 1,25 + $100,000)

Successful trade scenario.

The New York Knicks trade: / the Chicago Bulls receive:

Malik Rose (expiring)
Cuttino Mobley (coming out of retirement, and re-retiring afterwards)
3m$ cash

Why this might work for the Chicago Bulls: Larry Hughes is voicing his displeasure over Chicago's un-solved guard logjam. The Bulls save $3,406,359 this season and $4,155,268 the next one (combing for $7,561,627 + 3m$ cash = 10m$). So this trade not only rids Chicago's management off LT concerns, it also solves their guard logjam.

Downgrading from Drew Gooden to Malik Rose doesn't seem to be a big turn-off, considering Gooden's dysmysal interior defense.

1) Derrick Rose - Kirk Hinrich - Lindsay Hunter
2) Ben Gordon - Thabo Sefolosha - xxx
3) Luol Deng - Andres Nocioni - xxx
4) Tyrus Thomas - Malik Rose - Cedric Simmons
5) Aaron Gray - Joakim Noah - Michael Ruffin

The Chicago Bulls trade: / the New York Knicks receive:

Larry Hughes
Drew Gooden (expiring)

Why this might work for the New York Knicks: Instead of flushing money down the toilet, they acquire two average players, who are waiting to overachieve under D'Antoni's system.

1) Chris Duhon - Nate Robinson - Anthony Roberson
2) Larry Hughes - Quentin Richardson - xxx
3) Wilson Chandler - Jared Jeffries - Danilo Gallinari
4) Al Harrington - Tim Thomas - Eddy Curry
5) David Lee - Drew Gooden - Jerome James

BULLS333 · Post #2 » by **BULLS333** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:25 pm

haahaha wow ! bulls pass sorry . i think the bulls are done trading with the knicks for a while

killbuckner · Post #3 » by **killbuckner** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:43 pm

The Knicks EASILY pass. With the Knicks over the luxury tax both this year and next that would be them paying $23 million dollars EXTRA for 2 seasons of Larry Hughes. (by your math) He isn't worth anywhere close to that extra money. He isn't producing enough to pay the MLE for.

Post #4 » by **BrooklynBulls** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:16 pm

Its not just 23 million dollars more for Hughes. Its 26. But they get Gooden as a consolation. In terms of money...who thinks they care? I don't.

And the Bulls pass...easily. We downgrade from Gooden to Rose, and Hughes to nothing. For 10 million dollars?

We earn that 10m right back if we make the playoffs for the next two years. That will be made much harder, by trading 2 of our top 5 guys (ugh, they're two of our top 5 players, don't laugh), for very literally, Hearts and Roses.

Its a nice sentiment, what with valentine's soon approaching, but no thanks.

killbuckner · Post #5 » by **killbuckner** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:00 pm

If Hughes and gooden are in your top 5 players then you aren't going to make the playoffs anyway. No owner would pay 26 million dollars to have Hughes play for them and half a season of Gooden doesn't come anywhere close to making up for that. For how bad Hughes was the past 2 seasons he hurt the team more by playing than if he sat out. He has been useful this season but thats just too much money to pay to get his meager contributions.