Marcus Camby to Houston

Aaron Brooks · Post #1 » by **Aaron Brooks** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:38 pm

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Blazers trade center Marcus Camby to Houston Rockets, a source tells Y!

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As @SpearsNBAYahoo reports, Portland's traded Camby to Houston. Source tells Y! Rockets will send expiring deals and a 2nd round pick to POR

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The Rockets will send Jonny Flynn and Hasheem Thabeet to the Blazers, source tells Y! Sports.

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Houston also sends a 2012 second-round pick (via Minnesota) to Portland to complete the Camby trade, source tells Y!

Aaron Brooks · Post #2 » by **Aaron Brooks** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:42 pm

HoustonRockets · Post #3 » by **HoustonRockets** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:45 pm

Good trade... whats camby's contract look like?

Teckon · Post #4 » by **Teckon** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:47 pm

Good trade for Rockets!

Camby is expiring contract too.

HoustonRockets · Post #5 » by **HoustonRockets** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:54 pm

^ well, we made out team this year marginally better without giving up our carp flexibility, but i hope there's something more today...

Teckon · Post #6 » by **Teckon** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:57 pm

Should help Rockets' playoff push. 1 serviceable player for 2 benchwarmers.

JetLife · Post #7 » by **JetLife** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:04 pm

Great trade, I still hate that pump fake is still on our team. who is going to back up dragic for these next couple of games now though?

x- · Post #8 » by x- » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:04 pm

I don't mind this.

Camby will allow us to run more corner/high post sets.

Pattycakes · Post #9 » by **Pattycakes** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:13 pm

Cam's a beast, good for you guys. Wanna tell me why I should expect Flynn/Thabeet to even play for the Blazers? Felton's pretty damn bad but what's Flynn bringing to the table nowadays if anything?

x- · Post #10 » by x- » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:17 pm

Pattycakes wrote:Cam's a beast, good for you guys. Wanna tell me why I should expect Flynn/Thabeet to even play for the Blazers? Felton's pretty damn bad but what's Flynn bringing to the table nowadays if anything?

Thabeet... forget about it.

Flynn, well he's good at dribbling a lot. San Antonio supposedly had interested, so maybe there's something we're missing. :wink:

Way to rob the Nets in the Gerald Wallace deal by the way.

MaxRider · Post #11 » by **MaxRider** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:21 pm

Camby?
why are we keep trading for players few years late?

x- · Post #12 » by x- » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:24 pm

MaxRider wrote:Camby?
why are we keep trading for players few years late?

Not a lot to give up for somebody who might help you make the playoffs and maybe even do a little damage in the playoffs.

Also Camby lives in Houston and might be willing to re-sign for the cheap. Anytime his name came up in trade talks people said he'd prefer to get traded to Houston.

We'll see.

Pattycakes · Post #13 » by **Pattycakes** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:27 pm

You guys'll love Camby if he stays healthy. Play him 25 mins a game and you'll get 10 boards and a couple blocks...not a lot to hate about that

MaxRider · Post #14 » by **MaxRider** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:29 pm

why is martin is still in houston?

Shem · Post #15 » by **Shem** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:30 pm

x- wrote:Way to rob the Nets in the Gerald Wallace deal by the way.

That only works if New Jersey doesn't win a lotto pick [crosses fingers]!

Post #16 » by **jwise44** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:30 pm

Yessssss!!!! I love camby!!!

Hopefully like x said hell resign cheap cuz he lives here

bubba · Post #17 » by **bubba** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:31 pm

HoustonRockets wrote:Good trade... whats camby's contract look like?

i think he's a $9 mil expiring contract this season

spolgar · Post #18 » by **spolgar** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:50 pm

Like Teckon said, it's an expiring contract, which on top of that is prorated. There are only 25 games (prorated) left on a shortened season (more prorated...) to begin with, so we're only out a fraction of the 9 mill or so we owe to him. Fisher has a 3 year deal with the Lakers he signed at the end of 2010 worth 10.5 million for 3 years, with the last year as a player option. So we essentially got him for 3 mill and change, and that's if he wants to stay.

With Flynn gone too, we look like:

Lowry/Dragic/Fisher
Martin/Lee
Daly/Camby
Chander Parsons/Chase Budinger/Terrence Williams.
Luis Scola/Patrick Patterson/Greg Smith/Marcus Morris

This is going to be an interesting end to the year, especially if New York misses the playoffs.

moofs · Post #19 » by **moofs** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 7:52 pm

I like the idea of having Camby. Definite upgrade over Hill. We now have 2 legit starting C's and may actually be able to do something (albeit, not much).

x- wrote:Way to rob the Nets in the Gerald Wallace deal by the way.

Are you kidding? That's a HORRIBLE trade for Portland - who just traded their two best players and got back basically a second round pick. I continue to be sorry for you guys that Allen ditched Pritchard and Cho.

Edit: Ah, and a first round pick from Jersey, who sucks this year, I'd thought they were around .600. Ok, not HORRIBLE, I stand corrected (by me).

x- · Post #20 » by x- » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:08 pm

^

So do we agree that the Blazers won that deal?

As for Houston, this is a sound move, if not the splashy one the Rockets have been dying to make for years. Thabeet and Flynn have very little value around the league at this point, and the Rockets have managed to turn them into a second legitimate center to use when Samuel Dalembert is on the bench.

Dalembert averages just short of 25 minutes per game, and during those 25 minutes, the Rockets grab about 52 percent of available rebounds and defend at the level of about the ninth- or 10th-best defense in the league. For the other 23 minutes, Houston grabs only 48 percent of available rebounds, defends at a bottom-10 level and actually scores less efficiently on offense, per NBA.com‘s stats database.

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