Thabeet to Dallas, anyone?

Darren · Post #1 » by **Darren** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:23 pm

Dallas gets Hasheem Thabeet and Zach Randolph
Memphis gets Nathan Jawai, Kris Humphries, Shawne Williams, Jason Terry and Thunder's 2010 2nd, rights to Calathes, Foster & Nivins

Dallas lineup
C - Dampier / Hollins (LLE) / Thabeet
PF - Nowitzki / Randolph / Singleton (LLE)
SF - Marion / Ross / Green (LLE)
SG - Howard / McCants (BAE) / Carroll
PG - Kidd / Barea / Beaubois

Dallas gets a project. Despite his disappointed SL plays, he's still big and athletic enough to make everybody wonders how good he eventually would be.

Memphis lineup
C - Gasol / Haddadi / Jawai
PF - Arthur / Humphries / Nivins
SF - Gay / Young / Williams
SG - Mayo / Jaric / Foster
PG - Terry / Conley / Calathes (left oversea?)

Memphis rids themselves of Randolph's enormous contract. They get a starting 1 who can play interchangeably with Mayo. They get a couple of young guys as well.

- Humphries: strong and athletic big who's ready to hits the rotation.
- S.Williams: ridiculous athlete with proven defense.
- Nivins: coachable and promising rookie big with nba body.
- S.Foster: amazing shooter from the arc (60% in SL).
- N.Calathes: a projected 1st, a big pure PG who'd likely spend a year before coming to NBA.

N.O.R.E. · Post #2 » by **N.O.R.E.** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:32 pm

Uh, Memphis just gave up an expiring for Zach. You think they'd give up the #2 pick for equal length deals?
IB4TL

Post #3 » by **catalyst** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:09 pm

Teams can only sign one LLE per every other season. They cannot sign two in one year. ANd I do not really see how this helps either team

N.O.R.E. · Post #4 » by **N.O.R.E.** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:13 pm

Josh Howard for Marko Jaric. Jo-Ho smokes weed and stuff!11!!!111!!!1!1!!

jarrettjackfan · Post #5 » by **jarrettjackfan** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:14 pm

Lol, this deal would never happen. Like N.O.R.E. said, Memphis wouldn't do this. They are really big on Thabeet, and I don't blame them. This deal goes nowhere at all.

jefe · Post #6 » by **jefe** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:48 pm

How many number 2 overall picks get traded before the first game of the season?

JES12 · Post #7 » by **JES12** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:57 pm

Dallas is not going to trade for a project and Randolph. Not because of the value isn't there in this trade, but because projects pepresnt a lot of hope to the team that has them (would you trade Beaubois for cap space?) and it will take way more than their on court worth to pry them away. And we can't waste that in Dirk's prime.

As for our center need, I think we will focus on over-paid players that may have been tested and NBA ready already that may have fallen out of favor with their current team. Maybe someone like Dalembert or Chandler.

Brandon-Clyde · Post #8 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:24 pm

jefe wrote:How many number 2 overall picks get traded before the first game of the season?

The closest I can think of is Billy Owens(3rd overall) traded about 2 games into the regular season