Any merit in this idea?

[[RCG]]

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=75tjpkj

Wolves in: Hinrich, Dal 1st, LAL 1st, TPE
Lakers in: Beasley, Ridnour, Milicic
Atlanta in: World Peace, Memphis 1st

Wolves dump salary in Milicic, Ridnour & Beasley are semi-valuable but probably more-so to the Lakers who give up two later firsts for them. These firsts can still be useful for role-players in a deeper draft who fit on our current roster better than the guys we give up. I'm thinking John Jenkins and Jeffrey Taylor? Both can hit 3s and play the wings. But there are other options like Patric Young, Festus Ezeli, etc. I'd really much rather have a guard like Hinrich playing next to Rubio than Ridnour as well.

Lakers obviously add a lot of depth & flexibility as they try to win another championship. Another ring for Darko

Atlanta is in need of a SF/PF back-up, World Peace has play-off experience and fits in with the personality of the Hawks. Hinrich hasn't been playing well this year. Seems like they may need a '14 first from the Lakers as well though.

[C.lupus]

No merit for me.

[Devilzsidewalk]

I really like the latter half of this first round and think there's definitely going to be some big plus contributors, but the Wolves haven't recently shown to be the type of team to invest big in that part of the draft and I don't see them taking on those picks.

[Saltine]

Nope. Not sure why we should ever help the Lakers out, they don't deserve it
And 'world peace' is a huge negative value, huge. The dude is done.
He's shooting 33%, %20 from three, %51 on free throws, Per of 6.38. Toast.
http://espn.go.com/nba/player/stats/_/i ... orld-peace

And he's getting $7.3 million next season, guaranteed.

[moss_is_1]

I guess I would be okay with getting the 2 picks...but Hinrich is pretty bad now..so his value is that of purely an expiring. So we dump Darko and Ridnour for an expiring, and then get 2 1sts for Beas? I'd pry do this, even if the picks are later 1st rounders.

[southern wolf]

No merit for me.

[Klomp]

No merit for me.

[NewWolvesOrder]

That's a good trade for us. We begin offseason with tons of capspace and at least 2 picks. Sign a big money FA and shore up the bench with cheap young players from a loaded draft. And all we give up are players that are not essential to our future. Anybody who doesn't like it is a dumb homer from frozen tundra.