The ball and chain known as....

[Smills91]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the POTENTIAL value of Thomas/Reef/Miller/Moore is greater than anything we could possibly get back in return now.

I do agree are best trading chips are either one of Salmons or Artest. We need them to net us a starting caliber PG or PF(more likely a PG). That way we can have the 1/2/3/5 spots set for the future. Take the BPA in the draft and then look to deal for that FOUR with our expirings starting next off-season.

[deNIEd]

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Well I doubt we trade Artest and Salmons. It's either one or the other, not both.

And I disagree that Thomas is a positive asset. No offense, but have you watch Kenny play the last year and a half. He is terrible and his contract gives all NBA GM's nightmares. Kenny will never ever be an asset, he is a cancer frog face for the rest of his Kings life.

Right Mitch, SacTown
I'm talking about after 1 more year, when Kenny/Shareef/and Moore will all be expirings. 23 million dollars in expirings. Enough expirings to cover the contract of any player in the NBA.
If we begin to rebuild and stockpile young talent, then say we have 5-6 good young pieces, throw in 23 milllion dollar in expirings and you have an extremely good package to get a star that wants out of his current team.

If nothing works, as in we don't get that star player...then we have 23 million dollars off the books, at the very very worst situation.

Attempting to trade Kenny will require us to take back less talent if we trade a Salmons/Artest/Miller, something that I don't see as an option for our rebuilding team (as we need as much talent as we can get).

Like I said, Kenny has been good. He hasn't complained or been a huge distraction therefore he isn't hurting the team outside of anything but salary wise. (12 spots is enough to fill a team, we aren't winning, so we won't really need to go that deep anyways)

[Smills91]

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Kenny also has the ability to terminate his contract this summer...that would be one of the biggest breaks this franchise ever received if Thomas would opt out.

[pillwenney]

Yeah. Pretty much the only downside is that we still have to wait a year for all of this to happen. That's going to be a lot of waiting.

[KF10]

Im pretty sure that Petrie is able to wait for those contracts to expire...I hope...