G.cracker wrote:They supposedly offered Sanders and Knight for garbage can Hibbert! Surely we could put a package together that helps them this year as they are in a playoff hunt. Deng, Bird and Cole gets them replacements at C, PG and SF with Parker out. Sanders seems like he's pouting to get moved somewhere favorable. Both Sanders and Knight are South Florida guys and would probably love being back home. This seems like a classic buy low opportunity and at $11m his deal won't hurt 2016 much. Knight is better than any PG we have.
Plus, when Larry Sanders does anything good, Mike B can yell "Hey Now!"
I love this trade - it really doesn't do a lot to move the needle this year, but sets us up from the future.
Knight will be restricted in the off season, so we could match anything and have Knight/Wade/?/Bosh/Sanders in our starting 5. That sounds like a great building block for the future, and situation that a 2016 FA SF could really thrive in. With Napier/Chalmers/Ennis/McBob/Whiteside off the bench, all of a sudden we're a SF away from looking like a top-2 team in the East.
Unless Sanders completely looses the plot, then we're a treadmill team...