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Miami Trade Breakdown
Incoming Players
Martell Webster

Joel Przybilla

Raef LaFrentz

Outgoing Players
Shaquille O'Neal

Seattle Trade Breakdown

Incoming Players
Darius Miles
1st rd pick from POR
Outgoing Players
Kurt Thomas

Philadelphia Trade Breakdown
Change in Team Outlook: -8.8 ppg, +5.4 rpg, and -5.0 apg.
Incoming Players

Outgoing Players

Portland Trade Breakdown

Incoming Players
Shaquille O'Neal

Andre Miller

Outgoing Players
Martell Webster

Joel Przybilla

Darius Miles

Raef LaFrentz
1st round pick to sea

Why?
Por gets a great mentor for Greg and get a talented pg and also get rid of darius's contract. Mia gets a serviceable center and a youg wing who an score and shoot. Sea gets a 1st for taking on darius and phi gets an expiring

Pats19andO wrote:

Philadelphia Trade Breakdown
Change in Team Outlook: -8.8 ppg, +5.4 rpg, and -5.0 apg.
Incoming Players

Outgoing Players

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Sorry, I'm too lazy right now to look through the rest of the trade to fill it in myself.... so how does Philly's end breakdown?

I think Philly is trading Miller for Thomas' expiring contract here.

Spykes wrote:I think Philly is trading Miller for Thomas' expiring contract here.

Oh, well then the Sixers say no.

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Oh, well then the Sixers say no.

I doubt Seattle says yes.

Decent trade for Miami. Przybilla is a decent C, Raef gives them some cap space a year before Shaq would and Martell is a nice young player to help them rebuild. I haven't crunched the numbers, but off the top of my head, I'm fairly certain that they'd have some decent cap space in 09 after the deal.

Not good for Sonics. For one, if Portland were willing to give up a pick in this deal, it would need some lottery protection on it (which I'll get into later). A pick in the 15-20 range is not worth taking on 2 extra years of Miles' contract.

Philly? I guess it's OK if they want to dump more salary for this summer.

Finally, for Portland, doesn't make a ton of sense. I'll start off with the pick they have to give up. With how tightly packed the West is right now, Portland could easily miss the playoffs. And if Portland misses the playoffs, they'll want to keep their pick. This draft has a LOT of players that could be REALLY helpful to the Blazers, especially in the lottery. The things they need the most are a combo PG/SG or a SF. The lotto area of this draft is really stacked with those types of players, and this should be a fairly easy draft to move up in if need be.

Again, I haven't cruched the numbers, but I'm pretty sure this would hurt Portland's plan for cap "flexibility" in 09.

Then, taking on Miller doesn't make a ton of sense. Portland is already really packed with PG's. Adding another one just makes it even more jammed.

Portland likely passes on this deal.