EastSideBucksFan wrote:This thread is soooooooooo out of hand its not even funny.
Couple things.
Stop talking about being positive about future events. Unless you are Doc Brown, you don't know jack.
Brook Lopez was never on the Bucks. This is worse than perpetuating the Dirk myth.
Not even close to the same thing. Brook Lopez could have been a Buck if we had chose to make him one. He was projected to go right in the range of that 8th pick.
Dirk was not going to be a Buck. He was only interested in coming over to be a Mav after being convinced by Donnie Nelson. We traded up to draft Traylor. The Mavs knew eventually someone would gamble on Dirk with a mid to late 1st round pick and try to force the issue, but they knew they could still get Dirk with the 9th pick because no one was willing to use a pick higher than that on Dirk at that point.
midranger wrote:Mid-round draft picks are regularly bought for 3 million or less. I'm unsure why a team would want to buy one for 6.5 million (Ridnour's contract) from us.
They certainly wouldn't want to spend $6.5 mil just to get the draft pick, you are right about that. They would need to value having Ridnour on the roster for a year as worth $3.5+ mil in that case.
It is possible that could end up happening. I don't see any of the teams with 2009 offseason cap space having that much of a desire for Ridnour given the rest of their rosters and their current circumstances, but I would look more at a 3 team deal.
There are some teams trying to keep themselves set up with cap space for the 2010 offseason that will still be looking to tweak their roster for the 09-10 season. They won't be too interested in filling roster needs via FA because those contracts would then be cutting into that 2010 offseason cap space. Ridnour could be that stopgap for that team. That team would in turn send something else to the team with cap space that might be a better fit for them than Ridnour.
The problem is that while this is plausible as a general theory, the odds get longer when you start trying to figure out the specifics. An added obstacle now being that you have to not only come up with something that two parties have to agree to, you have to come up with something that three parties have to agree to.