lupin wrote:So, how well would Rashard have to play to be traded? Even if you're one of those types that is doing whatever mental acrobatics you can do to convince yourself it was a great trade, Rashard Lewis is not in the long term plans of the Wizards. And don't say he's untradeable either. Juwan Howard, Gilbert Arenas and Rashard Lewis have all been traded on 'ridiculous' contracts. How many guaranteed years does he have left? If he continues to play well (like versus the Nets) perhaps he could be appealing to a contending team looking for a sparkplug to make a difference. There are always a few teams in the league where money doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
And to be clear, I'm not just thinking about this year. That would probably be too much wishful thinking. But maybe the offseason? Maybe the middle of the next season played? Just curious to see what everyone thinks about the types of numbers he has to put up to be worth something with positive value (an expiring, a pick, an expiring and a pick).
None of your premises make a lick of sense as you don't understand the parameters of Rashard's non-guaranteed year and the CBA situation. In order to get someone to provide us with financial relief "during the summer" (which is during a lockout with a moratorium on transactions; bit of a problem), you're asking for them to send us at least $17 million worth of 2012 expirings (which almost nobody has) and then pay Rashard something like $10-14 million in 2013 after being waived (2013 is the partially guaranteed year). Why would anyone want to spend $10+ million on Rashard in 2013 without him even playing unless we're kicking in a lottery pick?
Only two real possibilities present themselves:
1) Trade Rashard before this year's deadline to a desperate team. Very unlikely, but at least they're getting him for a year and a half before that dead-year. They'd surely send back some bad money too. The only real idea I came up with was Redd/Maggette for Shard/Hinrich and that doesn't even save any 2013 money anyway.
2) Trade Rashard for worse players on bad contracts. Maybe the Bobcats?
But the question becomes, why push it? Bottom line, there's other solutions and we'd be better off working a buyout even without an amnesty provision than we would with most of the Rashard trade ideas. Particularly intriguing would be what I saw in that Turkglu trade from Toronto to Phoenix where he waived some of the guaranteed money off his final year in order to facilitate the trade. Usually buyouts are prorated, but it seems like there's some flexibility with partially guaranteed years.
But why even press before seeing what's up with Alan Houston type amnesty provisions? You might try doing some "mental acrobatics" so as to have some idea what you're talking about.
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