Cruel_Ruin wrote:mitchweber wrote:Cruel_Ruin wrote:Brad's value peaked last season. Unless he explodes beyond imagination, he won't ever get us more than an expiring and a 1st. Might as well ship him out before the season starts if that kind of deal is available to us.
Probably the main factor here. I doubt that kind of deal will be available to us, mostly because so many things have to line up for it to happen.
1. The other team has to have that much in expirings
2. They have to have something at least of equal value to a late 1st
3. They have to be willing to part with this stuff for Brad, which means that they have to value him as much as we do (which leads me to the rest of these prerequisites)
4. They have to be kind of a "bubble" team, which automatically eliminates probably about half the league
5. They have to have a need for a center
6. They have to have a need for a center like Brad, which makes things really tricky because Brad is such a unique player
7. They have to be willing to take on the extra year of his salary.
So over all, it has to be the perfect situation, and it probably won't happen.
Good points, but the center position is really weak nowadays, and I'm sure there will be some teams wanting to solidify their own. Detroit, Miami, Orlando, Denver come to mind off the top of my head. It helps that Brad became a productive rebounder over the last year, it makes him easier to trade off into a traditional Center role.
But the thing is that if you look at the salaries for those teams, it doesn't appear that any of them are really close to having enough in tradable expirings to make a deal work (I thought Detroit did, but shamsports says otherwise), and so right away, that eliminates them from the running when you consider what we want in return.
And Denver in particularly isn't going to dump Camby's salary just so they can take on Brad's.
