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Incoming Players
J.R. Smith
6.6 SG/SF 10.3 ppg, 1.9 rpg, 1.8 apg in 18.4 minutes
Steven Hunter
7-0 C 0.8 ppg, 1.3 rpg, 0.0 apg in 4.9 minutes
Eduardo Najera
6-8 SF 5.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg, 1.1 apg in 21.9 minutes

Outgoing Players
Shelden Williams
6-9 PF 3.0 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 0.3 apg in 12.2 minutes
Josh Childress
6-8 SG / SF 11.7 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 1.2 apg in 29.8 minutes
Zaza Pachulia
6-11 C / PF5.2 ppg, 3.8 rpg, 0.4 apg in 15.5 minutes

A much needed change of scenery for JR and Shelden and Zaza.

DEN gets helps where it is needed SF and SG back-up and PF mostly, while getting cheap contract.

ATL rents Eduardo veteran experience at SF/PF for a year and gets a shooter with JR to back-up JJ or marvin. Finally they get a big young with Hunter, better suited for the up tempo offense.

ATL:
AJ- Law-T Lue
JJ- JR - Mario- Salim
Marv- JR- Najera
Smoothe- Najera- Solomon
Al- Hunter-LoW

DEN
Carter- Atkins
Iverson. Diawara-Chil
melo-Chil- liezas
K Mart- Shelden-Zaza
Camby- Zaza- nene

Probably not what Denver wants in a deal. 1st of all they aren't keen on adding salary for next year. You are replacing Hunter's 1 more year at 3.8M with Shelden at the same price + Zaza at 4M. That's 8M to the owner to take a chance on a scenery change. Next I have heard they want to add a backup PG (Atkins is giving them nothing), which the trade doesn't provide. Finally, you have them trading there #4 scorer and as we saw when they visited here they have a real need for scoring beyond their big 2. Moving JR Smith and not getting any scoring punch in the exchange is a step in the wrong direction.

Childress is another glue guy, which is really what they are giving up in Najera. He doesn't help them long term because if AI doesn't opt-out then they are so far over the luxury tax that resigning him would be unlikely.

The player they would probably most want to part with is Hunter, but he has been out since Nov after knee surgery and although he was expected back by now, the fact he didn't play even when Kmart and Nene were out should tell you that he's not ready.

The players I think they would must covet from us would be Ty Lue and Lorenzen Wright. I know that sounds strange, but as expiring deals they would be preferred to Steven Hunter and Chucky Atkins who's contracts extend through next year (would save their owner 7M in luxury tax). Of course, we don't have much use for an injured C/F and undersized PG.

A good attempt to fix some of the holes on the team with a 3 pt shooter, some height, and a scrappy defender/rebounder, but it just doesn't mess with the financial realities of the situation.