McGrady News?

[jade_hippo]

and there are a couple of decent PG's that would fit well as a third option. *crosses fingers for Woodside* Livingston, Knight, Marbury *sigh*, Mike Wilks, Derick Martin, Hart, Salim Staudamire, Ty Lue, Juan Dixon, and myself.

What's your buyout offer for Gravelines to let their rookie pg on a bargain contract go? You can offer up to 500k, but chances are they want to hang onto the 5th leading scorer in ProA France. Who was the last player bought out from Europe mid-season by an NBA team.

are we talking my buyout or Woodside's buyout?

[shrink]

HOU just cut Mike Harris, lowering their roster size to 14.

I mention it here because it might be a precursor to a McGrady deal, and there's been some supposition that the wolves are a good place for him to land. Teams can't do a trade where they will ever have more than 15 players on their roster.

Cutting Harris means HOU is only $2.88 mil from getting under the lux. If they can lose that last bit of money, they'll save close to $10 million dollars.

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Either that or they don't want to guarantee him for the rest of the season and would rather sign him to a couple ten days after he clears waivers in 48 hours, and then reassess the roster situation. Unless you think Portland waiving Shav (doing the same as the Rockets with brining him back) or Cleveland waiving Coby Karl (same thing) are precursors to something too.

I'm not sure why you think I'm saying effect equals cause, and it can be applied to other teams.
Its true that it "might" be a precursor to a McGrady deal and it does get HOU closer to being under the lux.

Obviously teams also benefit from cutting a non-guaranteed deal not having contracts guaranteed, and since 10-day contracts became available on January 5th, they have more flexibility at the tail end of their roster.

[Guy986]

Heres what Darryl Morey said on a radio talkshow this morning regarding trade talk:

Host: keep in mind folks, DM can't really talk specifically about players on other teams, right DM?

DM: yeah, we are active in trades and i can only speak in generalities. we're trying to find an all star level talent to get back. either a current star, someone developing or declining as long as they are productive. we will take on salary if it makes sense. we'll do all that and try to find a home for tracy where he can get minutes.

Caller: happy youre out scoping the D-league.

Host: i imagine your math machine and sabermetrics is hard at work right now trying to find out who the trade targets are?

DM: yeah we have had several meetings over the holidays identifying who we want, and we are coordinated with mr. alexander to put together battle plans, understand the financial commitments we can take back, so hopefully we can go execute now.

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It could be lip service. But take it for what its worth. The Rockets are not looking to trim salary in a Tmac trade. Not our primary goal anyway.