Buddha wrote:Can we just leave the picks out of the initial trade, and take on more salary to try to pick up Collison? I don't think moving from #13 to #11 is going to make a huge difference (at best it will guarantee us one of Udoh/Whiteside). I would much rather have the PG situation figured out with Darren as our future (and our own #13, which is decent in itself and will be enough get us one of Whiteside/Orton/Udoh, or George/Henry).
As much as I wanted to add in Collison but realistically, will the Hornets do that even though they have arguably the best PG in the league and a perennial NBA superstar in the making ?
They really need to shed some bad contracts, because they are over the tax limit right now (not a good idea if you're in the lottery). If Bosh leaves to a capspace team, it's easy to acquire Collison using the generated TPE (taking back contracts, and instantly lowering the Hornets' salary...personally I'd love it if we could just absorb Peja+Collison, since we could package Peja in another deal at the deadline to obtain more talent.)
If we're using expirings to try and obtain Collison, it becomes a little harder to do. We have to look at taking on longterm crap deals in Posey and Okafor, and they will want some talent coming back as well.
