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shrink wrote:

farzi wrote: 2nd. trade the Ike Diogu 2.5 million dollar TPE for a early to mid 20's draft pick

This is fair value, but you're going to have a hard time accomplishing it.

The problem here is that you need to find a team in that range, who dislikes a player so much that they'll give up their late first to see him gone. Unfortunately, these are small contracts, and I assume you only want expirings. Fit is going to be an issue.

The Diogu exception is $2,912,823, so you can take on salaries from $3,012,823 or less.

Now check the player lists:

20 Jazz -- Ronnie Brewer? nope
21 Hornets -- Armstrong? Wright? I am doubtful.
22 Mavericks --Shawne maybe, though I doubt Cuban cares to shed salary in 2009, to help POR
23 Kings -- Hawes or Jason Thompson? Nope
24 Trailblazers --nope
25 Thunder -- Sefolosha? More space is better, but I thought they liked the kid.
26 Bulls -- Noah is a "no." Maybe. Linton Johnson + DeMarcus Nelson is only $1.7.
27 Grizzlies -- Haddadi and Darrell Arthur? Nope.
28 Timberwolves -- MADSEN .. wow, maybe. perhaps they could clear a little more than the MLE.
29 Lakers -- Farmar for $1.9? I doubt it.
30 Cavaliers -- Hickson. He's a god I hear, so no.

Wow, I feel lucky that when I got involved just for the analysis, it lands on the team I follow. Would POR trade the TPE for the #28? Maybe. Would MIN trade the #28 to move Madsen's expiring? Tough to say yes or no. MIN probably doesn't want all three picks. Maybe if we get that new capologist, he'd realize our space under the cap would be about:

$2.5 mil estimated right now
$2.84 mil Madsen gone
$0.84 mil No cap hold on the pick
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$6.2 mil under the cap.

Perhaps if MIN saw a guy in free agency this summer...?

casey wrote:Portland won't give up $3.7Mil in cap space for the 28th pick (not to mention adding two roster spots). I can't imagine any reason they would do that. As far as we go, sure, I guess. But it's pretty unlikely that we would sign anybody this summer, which is the only scenario where this would happen.

GopherIt! wrote:this trade smells like updog.

skorff26 wrote:

casey wrote:Portland won't give up $3.7Mil in cap space for the 28th pick (not to mention adding two roster spots). I can't imagine any reason they would do that. As far as we go, sure, I guess. But it's pretty unlikely that we would sign anybody this summer, which is the only scenario where this would happen.

I could see this happening; and they wouldn't be adding 2 roster spots, Madsen would be bought out and there's a good chance they would draft a foreign player and stash him in Europe such as Casspi or Llull (kind of like what they did with Rudy, Freeland, Koponen). Thus they wouldn't be gaining any roster spots, just adding another young player that they could bring over one day.

casey wrote:
They already have their own late 1st to do that with. They should be big players in the free agency/trade market this summer. Giving up that much cap room for so little would not happen. Even if it were Miami's pick instead of Boston's I can't see it happening.

john2jer wrote:I think GopherIt just found out what's updog.

shrink wrote:

john2jer wrote:I think GopherIt just found out what's updog.

Why does actual timberwolves discussion always get drowned out by yoga talk?

funkatron101 wrote:

GopherIt! wrote:this trade smells like updog.

What is that?