MIN - LAC - HOU

[VelvetPancakes]

(delayed due to 60 day restrictions)

MIN Trades:
Quentin Richardson 8.7M, 1 yr
Ryan Gomes 3.8M, 4 yrs
Darius Songaila 4.5M, 2 yrs
Chucky Atkins 3.4M, 1 yr

MIN Receives:
Tracy McGrady 22.8M, 1 yr
Min 1st Returned

LAC Trades:
Chris Kaman 10.4M, 3 yrs
Min 1st

LAC Receives:
Ryan Gomes 3.8M, 4 yrs
Darius Songaila 4.5M, 2 yrs
Chucky Atkins 3.4M, 1 yr (waived)

HOU Trades:
Tracy McGrady 22.8M, 1 yr

HOU Receives:
Chris Kaman 10.4M, 3 yrs
Quentin Richardson 8.7M, 1 yr

Why for Min?
Gets rid of Songaila's contract, gets our pick back from the Clippers, which will be unprotected in 2012. Receives an unproductive expiring for some productive expirings + Gomes (who it sucks to lose), but we have more time to develop our young players, even if we lose some more games.

Why for LAC?
LAC is overstocked at C and wants to get rid of Kaman. In return for Kaman and our 1st, they get Gomes, Atkins (waivable), and Songaila's 2-year contract.

Why for HOU?
In return for McGrady (basically just an expiring for them at this point), they get a productive vet SG who is also expiring, and a C to to play some of Yao's minutes.

[The J Rocka]

Cardinal and T-Mac can be bench buddies

[jgustav1]

Clippers say you are out of your mind VelvetPancakes. The pick stays and so does Kaman.

[VelvetPancakes]

How are you so sure? Freeing up cap space is consistent with their rebuilding efforts. They already have Camby and Jordan and aren't too big of fans of his contract.
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[jgustav1]

How are you so sure? Freeing up cap space is consistent with their rebuilding efforts. They already have Camby and Jordan and aren't too big of fans of his contract.
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They already have expiring contracts like Butler, Camby, Smith, R Davis and Madsen so they don't need to make an idiotic trade for cap space.

[VelvetPancakes]

So we send them Ellington too as incentive?

[cpfsf]

LAC turned down a Mike Miller - Chris Kaman trade. Plus, Minnesota makes out like bandits (getting rid of Songolia and bringing in our first round pick).

[john2jer]

Yeah, can't see the Crappers doing this trade, but love it for the Woofies.

[Esohny]

Too good for us. Too bad, because T-mac's corpse could have been our new bench cheerleader.

[Basti]

umm I guess somebody didn't notice that Q-Rich already got traded

[john2jer]

This trade was posted a couple minutes before the Q trade was announced.

[Basti]

but all of your comments came in later

j/p