Zeno wrote:dagger wrote:Watching Jose destroy Lin today made me wonder if we couldn't trade Jose to Houston for three expirings - Cook, Aldrich and Douglas - plus a pick or two. The pick could be lightly protected, you know, top 3 in 2013, top 2 in 2014.... I'd get a kick out of the revenge factor if nothing else. Also, if Houston makes the playoffs, it won't be much outside the lottery. A 2014 mid-teen pick could be combined with our own.
You might be able to get the pick if you didn't want the expirings or maybe a mixture. Both expirings and picks I strongly doubt.
I don't doubt it at all and wouldn't do it otherwise. The three I mentionned aren't even playing, and the first would be protected. Houston is going to spin its wheels for years with Lin, and Jose can mentor him in the dark arts of playing PG. With Jose, that team is a playoff lock, maybe not a lock to advanced, but a lock to make it, and he makes their inside game stronger. They had almost nothing going inside unless Harden created it.
HOU also doesn't have a lot of long-term money beyond Asik, Lin and Harden. Delfino's is the only deal that carries over to next season. Every other longer deal is rookie scale. Unless they want to pawn off Royce White, but no one is taking on that deal.