GM a Team: Twenty Twelve Edition - Writeups

[Heats_Finest]

Starting Roster -
PG - Jrue Holiday / Lou Williams
SG - Evan Turner / Jodie Meeks
SF - Andre Iguodala / Andres Nocioni / Craig Brackins
PF - Elton Brand / Thaddeus Young / Lavoy Allen / Francisco Nelson
C - Spencer Hawes / Nicolas Vucevic / Tony Battie


Philly Depth Chart -
PG - Tony Parker (34) / Baron Davis (14) / Allen Iverson (F)
SG - Monta Ellis (34) / Rip Hamilton (14) / Deshawn Stevenson (F)
SF - Caron Butler (30) / Trevor Ariza (18) / Raja Bell (F) / Jamario Moon (F)
PF - Luis Scola (30) / Lamar Odom (18) / Al Thornton (F)
C - Kendrick Perkins (34) / Mareese Speights (14)

Player Option

Total Salary - $63,278,190

Tony Parker 12,500,000 || 12,500,000 || $12,500,000
Monta Ellis 11,000,000 || 11,000,000
Luis Scola $9,408,208 || $10,224,623 || $11,041,038
Kendrick Perkins 8,050,531 || 8,727,437 || 9,404,342
Lamar Odom $8,200,000
Caron Butler $8,000,000 || 8,000,000
Trevor Ariza 7,258,960 || 7,727,280 (Player Option)
RIP Hamilton $5,000,000 || $5,000,000 (1 Million guaranteed)
Mareese Speights $3,000,000 / 3,135,000 / 3,270,000 / 3,405,000 (Player Option)
Baron Davis 2,000,000 || 2,050,000 || 2,100,000 || 2,150,000
Al Thornton $845,389
Deshawn Stevenson $845,389
Allen Iverson $845,389
Jamario Moon $845,389
Raja Bell $845,389

Cash + TPE -
13.5m TPE

Draft Picks -
CHA 2013 1st Rounder
Philly 2013 1st Rounder
Charlotte 2013 2nd Rounder

Notes -
We believe that we've upgraded in almost every facet of our lineup. We've gone for the traditional structure.

- Pass first point guard (Can also score and is going to be an All Star this year)
- Scoring shooting guard, can also distribute
- Defensive / Scoring small forward
- Post playing / mid range offensive power forward
- Defensive / shot blocking center
- One of the if not the best bench in the league

We haven't just thrown talent together and hoped it fit, we've made a concerted effort to get guys who would fit together and next to each other. We believe to beat our team you have to play a whole 48 minutes of great basketball, not only are our starters above average, but even when they come off you're essentially still playing another starting 5. Which we believe will be our biggest strength and the reason we are a heavy contender.

In terms of what we've set up we've gone win now, with veterans, but they still have good amount of years in them. Parker/Monta/Perkins/Ariza all have another 5 years of high level productive basketball while Scola/Hamilton/Davis/Odom/Butler have a couple years of high basketball left and they'll all be chasing a chip hard in the last couple of years.

We have two first rounders in the upcoming draft which we will use to push some more youth up into our team. We might use both or we might package them together to get a high draft pick, but our team has a lot of options, diversity and continuity. No real glaring weaknesses, defense, offense and bench play is all of above quality.

We have a 13.5m TPE that we can use for a team that's looking to dump salary, that'll be able to get us another high quality player to bring off the bench or start for our team which will only improve us.

Point Guard -
From (Jrue Holiday / Lou Williams)
To (Tony Parker / Baron Davis)
Whilst Holiday and Williams are decent young players, they lack consistency and usually look to score themselves, we value the traditional point guard, and we believe we have one of the best in Tony Parker. This year he's playing at an elite level 19/8. Will be an All star, is consistent, sets up team mates, has had an abundance of playoff pushes and championship experiences that will be great for my team.

Shooting Guard -
From (Evan Turner / Jodie Meeks)
To (Monta Ellis / Rip Hamilton / Deshawn Stevenson)
Again Turner and Meeks are good young players, Monta isn't an old player either and is currently the 3rd best shooting guard in the league. He's able to carry a offense by himself, but in my team he doesn't have to and he has a true distributor getting him the ball in his spots. Having better team mates will open up his game also. But apart from that he'll be able to get rest knowing the team will still go well without him as we have a perennial 6th man of the year candidate off the bench.

Small Forward -
From (Iguodala / Andres Nocioni / Brackins)
To (Caron Butler / Trevor Ariza / Raja Bell / Jamario Moon)
Losing Iguodala is hard as he's good on both sides of the ball. We still think we've got great production at this spot, Butler and Ariza are both capable of scoring and are great defenders. We'll be able to ride the hot hand on any given night and know that they're both going to produce starter level efforts. Good compliments to the rest of our lineup. We also rid ourselves of Nocioni's terrible contract.

Power Forward -
From (Elton Brand / Thaddeus Young / Lavoy Allen)
To (Luis Scola / Lamar Odom / Al Thornton)
Everyone knows Brand has a top 5 worst contract in the NBA so just being able to get rid of him whilst still bringing in a good player was awesome. Scola is very under rated player and has shown that he can be a first option for the Rockets. He's good in the post and from mid range so we have options for how we want him to run his offense on this team. Ofcourse off our bench we have another 6th man of the year winner/contender. Scola comes off and we lose nothing really. Young and Odom are much alike, good rebounders / left handed / jump shots / 6th men, etc. So we obviously upgraded on the starting lineup spot.

Center -
From (Spencer Hawes / Nicolai Vucevic / Tony Battie)
To (Kendrick Perkins / Mareese Speights)
Spencer Hawes and Perkins are basically opposites, and we have the opposite that we need. We don't need a guy who can space the floor and not really defend. We've got a guy that doesn't need touches on offense to be effective in a game, he'll rebound/defend/shot block and be tough all game. We have a guy off the bench that can come in and bring offense if needed in specialty situations.

I believe I've turned my team around the most out of the game, from a middle of the pack team with no real player who can take over to a bunch of savvy veterans with a lot of depth that will push hard in the playoffs. Thanks for reading all the way to the end

[Warriorfan]

Okl

PF Ibaka Collison
SF Durant Cook Lazr Hayward
C Perkins Mohamed Aldrich
SG Thabo Harden Nat Robinson
PG Westbrook Maynor Jackson

PF Bargnani 10,000,000 10,000,000
SF Durant 16,700,000
C T Chandler 13,000,000
SG Jru Holliday 1700000
PG Darren Collison 2300000
PF/C Serge Ibaka 2250000
PF Joe Henson 18000000
SF Harrison Barnes 4000000
SG/SG Tmac 2500000
SF/PF Boris Diaw 2500000

C Ron Turiaf
G Eddie House
BG Keith Bogans
PF Troy Murphy
G Eddie House

Cash 7,000,000

Draft Pick All OKL picks next 5 yrs


Team was a young deep contender is younger still deap cheaper but no Westbrook so should finish towards the bottom. Barnes and Henson are high potential rookies .



Starting roster
-Current roster
-Salaries for at least 3 years
-All draft picks and cash amount
-Why you think you did the best job

[Devilanche]

Minnesota Timberwolves Depth Charts
Ricky Rubio / Gilbert Arenas / Darius Morris
Wesley Matthews / Terrence Williams / Bojan Bogdanovic
LRMAM / Jared Dudley / Sam Young
Ryan Anderson / Anderson Varejao /Terrence Jones
Anthony Davis /Nikola Vucevic /Kwame Brown


PG

Ricky Rubio / Gilbert Arenas / Darius Morris = Ricky Rubio / Jose Juan Barea / Luke Ridnour
We needed a scoring guard behind the player we chosen to keep, we downgraded from JJB/Ridnour but at the same time we pick up a 6'6" PG who could potentially be either a defensive PG or play SG beside Rubio.
Going forward, Rubio will need to play at least 30mins so having 2 smallish backup really affected how we might play (i.e. can only slide rubio to SG or go with a severely underside backcourt. Arenas did well in his secondary role to Wall at Washington so we though he can mentor rubio on how to lead a team (Guns not included)


SG
Wesley Matthews / Terrence Williams / Bojan Bogdanovic >>>Martell Webster / Wayne Ellington / Malcolm Lee
Bojan and Lee are ex 2nd rounder with Bojan having the size to play some SF as well.
Matthews is an SG that the real Timberwolves would be estatic to get, 3 point shooting plus defence. T-Will still have some potential and i believe he's better than a cant stay healthy Webster or 3 point shooting only ellington.
T Will can do a little bit of everything and we're willing to give him a chance until his rookie contract ends.

SF
LRMAM / Jared Dudley / Sam Young <<Michael Beasley / Derrick Williams / Wesley Johnson
Beasley can score but we're not sure if he can lead. Derrick Williams seems stuck between position and frankly i think he's better as a floor spreading SF. Wesley matthews was a reach.
Instead we take on 3 glue guys, LRMAM who is one of the better defender in the league and can guard 1-5 not named Dwight, Dudley who's decent on defence but more of a 3 point threat while Sam Young will provide some minutes of defence.

PF
Ryan Anderson / Anderson Varejao /Terrence Jones< Kevin Love / Anthony Randolph / Anthony Tolliver
Ryan Anderson is a poor man Kevin Love and we paid him accordingly.1/3 of what Love is getting. We're not convinced Love is Batman so we traded him away rather than pay him Batman's salary.
AV is probably a starter on most other team but on ours he's our 1st big off the bench and provide veteran leadership. He'll help to reinforce the defensive mentality that we have in our starting 11 and then some. Much better than Tolliver. Magic Randolph has flattered to deceive and we dont want to pay him so we traded him for Terence Jones a hustle SF/PF on a new rookie contract.

C
Anthony Davis /Nikola Vucevic /Kwame Brown >>Darko Milicic / Nikola Pekovic/ Brad Miller
3rd string Kwame is on a similer level to our previous starter Darko.
We're banking on Davis being the next Garnett and Vucevic is another big that we're high on. I believe this is our strongest position now.


Own picks 2014 1st, 2015 1st,2015 2nd,
Pick Owed
2013: 1st(UTA-Rolled, MIA,ORL) 2nd (UTA),
2014: 1st (WAS,LAL,NOH,MEM,ATL), 2nd(NOH,PHI,CHI)
2015: 1st (LAC) ,2nd(WAS,MEM,DEN)


Summary: 9 future 1st and a string of 2nds. We didnt locked ourselves into salary cap hell and got a bunch of assets in terms of rookie contract. Let's face it, Dwight in LA and Miami's Lebron etc etc are still going to dominate in the short term so we retooled for when they're on their downside.

[JoebobLollipop]

New York Knicks
Started with:
PG: Davis/Douglas/Shumpert
SG: Fields/Walker
SF: Anthony/Jeffries/Novak
PF: Stoudemire/Harrelson
C: Chandler/Jordan

Ended with:
PG: Lowry
SG: Hill/Lamb
SF: Nowitzkitz
PF: Bosh
C: Okafor/Jordan

Salaries:
Lowry $5,750,000 $6,210,000
HIll $3,000,000
Lamb $2,404,600 $3,049,920 $3,873,398
Nowitzki $20,907,128 $22,721,381
Bosh $17,545,000 $19,067,500 $20,590,000
Okafor $13,490,000 $14,487,500
Jordan $762,195 $1,059,293
Salary: $63,858,923 $76,595,594 $20,590,000


All future original picks, 6 mil in cash.

PG: Lowry>>>>Davis/Douglas/Shumpert.
Davis is older and injury-prone, while Lowry has been a beast this season. The other two aren't even true PGs and TDDWTDD has been one of the worst players in the league this season
SG: Hill/Lamb>>>Fields/Walker
Fields has been struggling, adjusting to the Melo trade. Lamb is a top 5 pick and HIll provides great defense and veteran leadershio.
SF: Melo/Jeffries/Novak=Dirk
Melo has shown to be too bad of a decision maker, especially in the 4th, and he is more of a high colume player than anything. While DIrk is older and has struggled this season, he has shown he can lead a team to a championship.
PF: Bosh>Amare
Amar'e has not played well sans a PG, and Bosh is a much better complimentary player and defensive player
C: Chandler/Foster=Okafor/Foster/Jordan
They're pretty similar players, except Chandler is a bit younger and more athletic, although Emeka is cheaper and his contract ends sooner.

[TMACFORMVP]

[PG] - Stephen Curry - $3,958,742 |||
[SG] - Eric Gordon - $13,000,000 ||| $14,000,000 ||| $15,000,0000
[SF] - Shawn Marion - $8,396,364 ||| $9,066,796
[PF] - Paul Millsap - $8,603,633 |||
[Cc] - Andrew Bynum - $16,100,000 |||



[PG] - Aaron Brooks - $7,500,000 ||| $7,500,000 || $7,500,000
[SF/SG] - Dorell Wright - $4,106,000 |||
[SF] - Chandler Parsons - $891,964 ||| $958,036
[PF] - Drew Gooden - $854,389 |||
[Cc] - Kurt Thomas - $854,389 |||



[PG] - Andrew Goudelock - $854,389 |||
[PF] - Mason Plumlee - $1,170,000 ||| $1,257,700 ||| $1,345,500
[PF/C]- JaJaun Johnson - $1,089,240 ||| $1,136,160 ||| $2,049,633

2012/2013: $67,379,110
2013/2014: $33,918,692
2014/2015: $10,895,133

Depth Chart
PG - Curry (28) - Brooks (20)
SG - Gordon (34) - Wright (8) - Curry (6)
SF - Marion (13) - Wright (18) - Parsons (17)
PF - Millsap (33) - Marion (15)
Cc - Bynum (34) - Gooden (14)

Draft Picks
- 2013 SAC 1st (top 13 protected)
- 2013 CLE 2nd
- 2014 HOU 2nd
- 2014 CLE 2nd
- 2014 ORL 2nd
- 2015 CLE 1st
- 2015 MIA 1st

Transactions

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1. CLE 2012 Top 8 Protected, and Sessions for Beasley, MEM 2013 1st, and OKC 2012 2nd.
2. Gibson and Cassipi for Lee, Parsons, and Flynn.
3. Harongody and Gee for Williams and Arien
4. Samuels and Erdin for Whiteside and Greene
5. Flynn, Green, MIA 2013 1st, OKC 2012 2nd for Duhon, Redick.
6. Redick and Hollins for Barea, Hill, 2014 POR 1st, 2012 DAL 2nd.
7. Duhon and Whiteside for Brewer.
8. Varejao and Jamison for Duncan.
9. Irving and Thompson for Wall, James, and 2012 MIA 2nd.
10. Duncan and top 8 first for Ginobili, Farmar, and Noah.
11. Ginobili and Barea for Derozan, Meeks, Ariza, and Nocioni.
12. CLE 2012 2nd, Ariza, Meeks, and Eyenga for Thomas, Whiteside, and Battie.
13. Nocioni and 2012 MIA 2nd for Milicic.
14. Wall and Lee for Curry and Scola.
15. Thomas, Milicic and Williams for Davis and Turkoglu.
16. Hill, Farmar, and James for Hayes, Summers, and Thomas
17. Gasol, Hayes, 2013 MEM 1st, cash, and Derozan for Bynum, Anthony, Turner, DAL 12 2nd.
18. Summers, 2014 POR 1st, and Battie for Aldrich and Bell.
19. Beasley, Thomas, and Aldrich for Pietrus, Bell, and Henderson.
20. Scola for Thompson, POR 2012 1st, and LAC 2012 1st
21. Pietrus and Whiteside for Eyenga and White.
22. 2012 1st and White for Landry.
23. Eyenga, Anthony for Pekovic, and Morris.
24. Pekovic, Adrien, and C.Bell for O'neal and Jones.
25. ORL 2013 2nd, DAL 2012 2nd, Thompson and Landry for Anderson and Thabeet.
26. Anderson, Morris, and Hedo for Jefferson.
27. Henderson and Thabeet for Mozgov and Matthews
28. 2015 CLE 2nd for cash.
29. Mozgov, and Jones for Marion, #49, and Bradley.
30. Davis, Turner, 2014 1st, rights to Leon, and Bradley for Smith.
31. Jefferson for Smith, 2014 2nd Aldrich, and Millsap.
32. Smith and Matthews for Gordon and Wright
33. Thomas, Thompkins, Brooks for Aldrich, Miles.
34. Foye for Johnson.
35. Cash, Thompkins for Plumlee.

The Cavs had four assets:
1. Kyrie Irving
2. Tristan Thompson
3. Anderson Vareajo
4. 2012 1st Round Pick

At first, I received no offers from anyone because:
a) Kyrie was deemed untouchable only for an upgrade, which was kind of an unknown (what an upgrade was) for nearly half the game.
b) People thought TT was a bust b/c he was supposedly "picked too high."
c) Only tried to get Varejao cheap, as a sort of defensive center to compliment their starting lineup, offering bench players/fringe starters. He's not really the sort (despite his production) that you give up a lot for..

Nonetheless, these are the assets I had to work with, as the rest of the roster consisted of guys with mediocre to no value (I won't say negative, since there was no one I wanted to unload).

Anyways, Curry/Irving to me is a wash, if you want to give Irving the edge, that's fine by me. But I'd want to remind you what Irving is doing this season is not really all that greater than what Curry did in his rookie season, in fact, need I remind you that Curry did 22/6/8 post all-star break in his rookie season; and he wasn't given, nor still has been given the reigns of the team that Kyrie has already.

Millsap is having an all-star caliber season; roughly 17/10 on a surprisingly good Jazz team. I'd personally give him the edge value wise over TT as well (since he's still raw), but for the sake of less argument, let's pretend that...

Curry/Millsap = Irving/TT.

This would imply we used Anderson Varejao, and our pick (which was #21) in exchange for:

1.) Andrew Bynum
2.) Eric Gordon

Two all-star caliber players, that are very fringe franchise sort types. Bynum has the second most value in the league at C, doing 17/12, anchoring the Lakers defense, and making his first all-star appearance. I'd also venture to say that EG has the most SG value of anyone in the league, only after DWade, and Kobe.

3.) Dorell Wright
4.) Shawn Marion
5.) Chandler Parsons
6.) Aaron Brooks

I'd argue these guys have above average value (cept Brooks, who prob has average-ish value), Wright is finding his stroke, and a SF that garnered a lot of interest with his length/shooting ability. IMO, Marion is one of the better SF fits w/ my team in the league, his defense, rebounding and hustle has been terrific this season, and while his value may not be the same, b/c of his age, he's on a cap friendly contract, and a tremendous fit.

Parsons is a ROOKIE starter on the Rockets, in fact putting up similar #'s w/ a similar role to Kawhi Leonard on the Spurs. He's obviously not as good, but he often defends the other teams best players, is good off the ball, and a nice rebounder. 7/5/2, send that man to the rookie/sophomore game!! (Note: I am an extreme Parsons homer, lol).

And Brooks was a guy I felt I could take a gamble on, we're talking a lot about Brandon Jennings this season, check out Brooks season 2 years ago, and it's virtually identical #'s (and Rockets were a .500 team too). We've seen what quick guards w/ range can do, especially off the bench (see: Barea), and we feel Brooks can replicate that, or step in w/ an injury w/out missing a beat.

7.) JaJaun Johnson/Mason Plumlee/Drew Gooden/Kurt Thomas/Andrew Goudelock

Gooden/Thomas are vets that are playing real well, while JJJ is showing some game recently w/ the C's, and Plumlee is another big with OK potential, that's projected to be a first rounder. Even Goudelock is playing well off the bench as a rookie for the Lakers.

We can also look at it another way...EG/Bynum for Irving/Varejao/TT. IMO, Bynum has more value than Varejao and TT, while EG/Irving have similar value, but slight edge to Irving. Which would imply, Curry/Millsap, and the rest of those pieces for nothing, really.

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Average Age: 26.1 (this includes Kurt Thomas [39] and Drew Gooden [30]).
Average Age: 24.6 (removing Thomas/Gooden, still even includes Marion)...

It would be 23.8 years old if you removed Marion.

^so you can see, our core can still play for another decade almost.

And this doesn't limit us in the current too, we finished as a playoff team last season, and have gotten better since then. All our young guys are established starters in this league (even Parsons is a starter, lol), and Curry/EG/Bynum when on the floor have shown all-star caliber play. Marion fits perfectly. Wright, and Brooks do their thang off the bench, and Gooden/Kurt provide veteran backup big men, with two other young big man waiting to replace them w/ more experience. The team fits very well together, Millsap has played w/ low post big men successfully, Curry/EG provide terrific creating ability and spacing for Bynum in the post, and we'll certainly utilize the skill-set that Bynum has, being far more a focal point than he is on the Lakers. Defense, offense, fit, spacing, depth, is all there to compete now, and only get better in the future.

We have a franchise PG/SG/C for the next decade, a very good PF that's having an all-star caliber season and only slightly older. Then Wright/Marion/Parsons all able to play the 3 spot, for now and the future. This team can contend NOW as all our young players are established, but will only get better in the future w/ development, and team chemistry. The pieces fit together, nobody gets in anyones way, and the value acquired from what we started w/ deserves to be ranked highly.

VOTE CLEVELAND!

[MagicalMe]

Golden State Warriors



Salaries:



Blue - Team Option
Green - Player Option
Red - Qualifying Offer
Grey - Unguaranteed
Mauve - Early Termination

Starting Depth Chart:

Curry/Smith
Ellis/Rush/Jenkins
Wright/ Thompson/Ch.Wright
Lee/ Udoh/McGuire
Biedrins/Brown/Tyler

Final Depth Chart:

Stuckey/Beaubois/Dooling
Allen/Brewer/Jenkins
J.Green/D.Green/Clark
Jefferson/Landry/Sanders
Dalembert/Pachulia/Jefferson

Draft picks:

2013: 2nd NOH
2014: 1st DEN; 2nd NOH.
2015: 1st GSW; 1st NOH.

TPE:

TPE of $3,417,232;

Cash:

$3M. 1M Aquired via deal with Portland, but 3M lost via deal with Boston then aquired 2M from Portland and 3M from New Jersey

Trades and Transactions:

1) Traded Monta Ellis, Kwame Brown to the Hornets for Wesley Matthews, Nicolas Batum, Al Harrington

2) Traded Al Harrington, Ekpe Udoh, Nicolas Batum to the Blazers for Gary Neal, Samuel Dalembert, James Jones, 1M of cash

3) Traded Klay Thompson, Jeremy Tyler, 2014 GSW 2nd to the Kings for Jason Thompson.

4) Traded David Lee, Dorell Wright, Samuel Dalembert, Stephen Curry, Wesley Matthews, GSW 2013 1st to the Hornets for Raymond Felton, Al Harrington, Dwyane Wade

5) Traded Jason Thompson, Gary Neal to the Rockets for Stephen Jackson

6) Traded Dwyane Wade, Andris Biedrins, Al Harrington, James Jones, Dominic McGuire, Chris Wright to the Hornets for Nene, Antwan Jamison, Arron Afflalo, Kenneth Faried, DEN 2012 1st, MIL 2012 2nd, NOH 2013 1st, NYK 2014 1st, DEN 2014 1st, NOH 2014 2nd, NOH 2015 1st.

7) Traded Kenneth Faried, Raymond Felton, DEN 2012 1st, NYK 2014 1st, 3M cash to the Celtics for Tony Parker

8) Traded Arron Afflalo to the Hornets for Lamar Odom, Gordon Hayward

9) Traded Nene, Stephen Jackson, Charles Jenkins to the Blazers for Emeka Okafor, Zaza Pachulia, Richard Hamilton, Dahntay Jones, 2M cash.

10) Traded Gordon Hayward, Antawn Jamison to the Rockets for Carlos Boozer, Jodie Meeks

11) Traded Tony Parker, Dahntay Jones to the Nets for Jameer Nelson, Jamal Crawford, Michael Beasley, 2012 1st MIL (top 12 protected), 3M cash

12) Traded Jodie Meeks, 2012 NJ 2nd, 2012 MIL 2nd to the Wizards for Patty Mills, 2013 NYK 1st, 2013 NOH 2nd

13) Traded Jamal Crawford, Brandon Rush to the Grizzlies for Hasheem Thabeet, Chris Wilcox

14) Traded Hasheem Thabeet, Chris Wilcox, 2012 MIL 1st (top 12 protected) to the Clippers for Caron Butler

15) Ish Smith expired and became UFA.

16) With the 42nd pick of the 2012 NBA draft, GSW drafted John Jenkins.

17) Traded Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Richard Hamilton to the 76ers for Manu Ginobili, DeJuan Blair, TPE of $5,644,565

18) Traded Emeka Okafor, DeJuan Blair, Patty Mills to the Rockets for Al Jefferson, Ronnie Brewer.

19) Signed UFA Earl Clark for vet min.

20) Agreed to trade Carlos Boozer, 2013 NYK 1st to the Blazers for Carl Landry, Samuel Dalembert

21) Traded Part of our TPE, 2013 NOH 1st to the Blazers for Roddy Beaubois.

22) Signed UFA Keyon Dooling

23) Traded Manu Ginobili to the Hawks for Arron Afflalo, Brandon Bass

24) Traded Jameer Nelson, Arron Afflalo to the Wizards for Ray Allen, Rodney Stuckey

25) Traded Michael Beasley, Brandon Bass to the Rockets for Jeff Green, Danny Green, Larry Sanders

Write-up:

At the start GSW had some nice talent, but they were a team that was known as a weak team that can't make the playoffs and plays no D. When Mark Jackson took over this team he said he wanted to change the mentality and so did i in this game. My direction was to get GSW a different look. Let's see how i did this:

Offense:

Balanced team that doesn't have a true superstar, but scoring now can come from anywhere. Ray Allen 3's in transition or running off the screens. Stuckey's penetration. Jeff Green posting up smaller SF's. Al Jefferson in the post. Dalembert can hit that free throw line jumper. I mean lots of different places to score from and if any of those players have a mismatch, we can easily take advantage. I won't throw you any numbers, cos they change every day you can easily check them by yourselves.

Defense:

Dally protecting the paint, Al blocking some shots should make a decent inside defensive duo. Jeff Green is a good defender, who can be our wing stopper. Ray is pretty solid and Stuckey has that size to stop other teams PG's. Like on offense, our defense is really balanced.

Bench:

I consider my bench as my biggest strength. I didn't mention my bench guys in Offense/Defense sections, because i thought you'll overlook them. So i made a bench section to show you guys, that i really have a solid deep team.
Beaubois brings some energy, scoring, shooting and blocks. If he doesn't have a good game, doesn't matter, cos we have Dooling as our 3rd string PG. He won't see a lot of time, but he should be the best 3rd string PG in the league. Ronnie Brewer brings slashing, a bit improved jumper and insane defense. I said Jeff Green is my wing stopper, but when Ronnie gets off the bench, he can take over this job. Danny Green. You may not value him if you didn't watch Spurs, but if you did, you know, that this kid is the real deal. He earned his time, with his scoring, defense and energy. He had a nice number of good games. Guy is still fairly young and Popovich even gave him a ball in some streches to create, showing that his handles and playmaking may be really underrated. We are high on him and we hope, he shows his capabilities. Carl Landry, no intro needed. He scores and scores a lot. He's a good scorer in the 4th quarter, so he can be a finisher, if someone else doesn't have a good game. Last but not least, Zaza Pachulia. He brings toughness, D and is a very good back-up C. Centers have a tendency to get quick fouls, but if that happens to Dalembert, we have no worries, because we can easily trust Zaza.

Money situation:

You probably looked at my salaries and said: "Yuck, 74 million". But my response is: "Look at 2013/14". We will have about 17 free million to make a run at a good FA or two.. or three..
We also got some cash, so if we don't like a player that is underperforming, we can easily get rid of him.

Conclusion:

I'll repeat: My direction was to get GSW a different look. I think i did that. This team isn't gonna win now and it's not gonna be up and coming young team, where only time is the question, but with such a balanced, deep roster and some quality players, we will easily make the playoffs and we will probably give some headaches for top teams, because if one or more of our starters are struggling, we can easily replace him with out bench guy and we wouldn't lose anything.
After that, of course, we will be much more attractive place and, like i said, we will get some good FAs with our capspace or via trades (cos we have a lot of good assets) to join our balanced crew. Of course, some players will leave, while some of them will be resigned, but any way or antoher, this team will make you forget all those non playoff years and i guess, we're perfectly set to become a powerhouse in 2-3 seasons.

Last, but not least. Thanks (almost) everybody for a great game. It was interesting and fun doing trades. Also, thanks Keeslinator for commishing, it's sad that you're leaving us after the next game, but, of course, real life is more important

[Blazer50]

New Jersey Nets

Started with a Team that Sucked for $ 60,000,000 - Ended at $43,000,000.
Felt I had some excellent lineups along the way but had some unfair rulings
and some Personal attacks leveled by a few GMs during the game that took were unfortunate.

I enjoyed dealing with most of you and tried to stay current and deal fairly with everyone.
Good luck in the next round and remember it is a game.

ORIGINAL ROSTER
PG Deron Williams SG Antony Morrow SF Damion James - PF K Humphries C Brook Lopez
PG Jordan Farmar SG Marshon Brooks SF Shawne Wiiiams PF Jordan Wms C Johan Petro
PG Sandiata Gaines ------------------------------- PF D'ns Horner C Sheldon Wms
ROSTER: 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

Greivis Vasquez ----- 1,191,240 - 2,150,188 - 3,203,780
Steve Blake --------- 1,223,116 - -- N/A
Nolan Smith -------- 1,404,960
Gordan Hayward ---- 2,709,720 - 3,452,183
Marco Belinelli ------ 854,389 - N/A
Mike Dunleavy ------ 3,750,000 - -- N/A
Hedu Turkoglu ---- 11,815,850
Martell Webster ---- 2,000,000 - 2,000,000 - 2,000,000 - 2,000,000
Victor Claver ------- 1,045,600 - 1,092,700 - 1,139,700
Jonas Jerebko ------ 4,500,000 - 4,500,000 - 4,500,000 N/A
Josh McRoberts ----- 3,135,000 - -- N/A
Mason Plumlee ----- 1,134,500 - 1,185,600 - 1,236,600
Darko Milicic ------- 5,228,000 - 5,670,000
Joel Freeland ------- 850,800 - 889,100 - 927,400
Ian Mahinmi ------- 1,500,000 - 1,500,000 - 1,500,000

TOTALS --- $43,586,615 --- $27,28,0691 --- 20,393,767


LINEUP
PG Greivis Vasquez / Steve Blake / Kirk Hinrich
SG Gordan Hayward / Marco Belinelli / Mike Dunleavy
SF Hedu Turkoglu / Jonas Vesely / Omri Casspi
PF Jonas Jerebko / Josh McRoberts / Mason Plumlee
CT Darko Milicic / Joel Freeland / Jason Smith

[RR9]

original roster:
rose/c.j.watson
hamilton/brewer/butler
deng/korver
boozer/gibson/scalabrine
noah/asik

current roster:
Rondo/Farmar/Fisher
Sefalosha/Terry/Brown
Pierce/Maggette/Seraphin
Smith/Gibson
Gasol/Thompson/Sacre

Paul Pierce $16,790,345
Pau Gasol $19,000,000
Rajon Rondo $11,000,000 $11,954,545 $12,909,091
Josh Smith $13,200,000
Thabo Sefalosha $3,600,000 $3,900,000
Jason Thompson $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $5,000,000 $5,000,000
Kevin Seraphin $1,680,360
Jason Terry 5,000,000 5,000,000, 5,250,000 5,250,000
J'Covian Brown (rites) 884,293
Robert Sacre (rites) 884,293
Corey Maggette 884,293
Jordan Farmar $4,250,000
Taj Gibson $2,155,811 $3,181,977

Total Salaries: $99,947,578

Depth Chart:
Rondo/Farmar/Fisher
Sefalosha/Terry/Brown
Pierce/Maggette/Seraphin
Smith/Gibson
Gasol/Thompson/Sacre

Picks:
MEM 2013 1st
CHI 2013 2nd
CHA 2013 2nd
CHA 2014 1st

CASH: +3M (AKA 10 M total)

Rose ---> Rondo is not that big a drop off. the fact that rondo still can't shoot free-throws that well has barely affected the celtics at all. further, rondo is assisting out of his mind and gained great confidence in his jump shot (he's taking them without hesitation!)

Hamilton ---> Sefalosha makes me MUCH MUCH younger! I clearly have the best defensive starting back-court in the game. Thabo can spot up the 3 very well too.

Deng ---> Paul Pierce. Pierce has been carrying the celtics this season. he's shown NO sign of aging. he was out of shape at the beginning of the season, but look at him now. he just passed BIRD in all-time scoring for the celtics. looking at him statistically this season, pierce might be the move valuable player in terms of efficiency in all areas for his team: scoring, passing, rebounding, etc. he's averaging 23 pts, 7 asts, 7 rebs, 1.3 stls, 1 blk, on 45% fg, 81% ft, 43%3fg, and 2.3 3PM. greatest captain and gel guy out there (ok a little bias there but his stats don't lie!) one of the best defenders at the 3 as well.

Boozer ----> Josh Smith. I lose some offense, but gain so much freakish athleticism (reuniting rondo and jsmoove on purpose for those alleyoops!!!) smoove's defense is also a perfect fit with my back court. smith can also pass, rebound, and offensive rebounds/put-backs are insane!

noah -----> pau. i get older yes, but again this championship experience only helps and pau is one of the big men with the HIGHEST BBALL IQs ever. the guy can pass - why do you think kobe vouches for him so much? pau's a bit soft on defense, but that's why i have smith with him in the front court and jason thompson/taj gibson backing him up in the front court!

BENCH:
Farmar/fisher at PG only bring vet experience in ball distribution and just playing with a high IQ. great backups for rondo
Terry the JET is the best 6man out there and a third of the reason why the MAVS won the championship (in addition to dirk and tyson as the main pieces). again, most championship experience who ISN"T washed up.
Maggette can create his own shot when necessary and gets to the free-throw lines to stop the clock in pressure situations. he provides a great backup to pierce.
taj is young and very highly demanded a player. he is an apprentice under josh smith's wing.
thompson is another young asset who can play backup minutes and provide fresh young legs to give pau the rest he needs.

why i should win: i have 5 players with championship rings on my team, and a core of rondo/thabo/smith/taj/thompson going into the future is terrific young talent. once my vets help me win some champsionships (pierce, pau, jet, fisher all coming off the books means i can make a big go at FAs in the future!).

my starting 5 has terrific defense and if you attack my offense, i have: rondo's penetration ability and alley-oops to jsmoove. LOB CITY 2.0. thabo can spot up, pierce has the entire artillery on offense. smith cuts all day and can be PASSED TO by rondo, pierce, or pau at anytime. pau has great range for a big and one of the best offensive post players out there. then i have jet and mags as big scoring punches of the bench.