Would Washington Wizards do this draft trade

blackham9258 · Post #1 » by **blackham9258** » Sat May 11, 2013 4:41 am

We take on Emeka Okafor and his final year $14.5M straight up for the #8 pick.

Why for Washington: If they don't move up they believe that the entire top 7-8 players are tier 2-3 players:

Tier 1: Potential perrenial All Stars: Duncan, Lebron, Rose, Kyrie Irving types
Tier 2: Potential at some point all stars or solid starting contributors: Nerlens Noel, Ben Mclemore
Tier 3: Players who are potential starters or potential bench contributors.

If they feel they can get a more in FA and they like the idea of building a winner they could target someone like Pekovic and offer him $12-$13M a year and really take a step forward. Or they could add a Paul Millsap: Millsap 4/$30M, and Jack 4/$21M and be a lot further ahead than some mid level rookie.

The Jazz do this if they believe someone will slip to them like an Anthony Bennett who is now injured and can't work out for teams, or Alex Len or if they decide they want to package #8 & #14 to go up and get a Ben Mclemore, Trey Burke or Bennett.

My preffered strategy is to pick up whoever slips to 8: Hopefully Bennet, Len, Oladipo etc and then pick up Dennis Schroeder at #14.

Then to top it off we trade #21 to Miami or OKC for their future Philly or Dallas picks... just to keep the asset from the Deron trade going for another year.

Oh and by the way the side benefit to taking on Okafor is we become more defensive and we prevent ourselves from making the mistake of resigning either of Millsap or Jefferson which to me would be a big mistake.

Jazzfan12 · Post #2 » by **Jazzfan12** » Sat May 11, 2013 4:45 am

Okafor was great for the Wizards last year and has positive value, this has no chance of happening probably.

Post #3 » by **Inigo Montoya** » Sat May 11, 2013 12:03 pm

i don't think there is a chance this trade will happen. no reason for the wizards to do it. expiring contracts have value, since they can be traded for players\picks the wizards can use, or just expire and give the wizards cap relief they could certainly use. so i don't see why they would just give you an asset in the form of an expiring contract, AND also add the 8th pick in the draft.

pickIBL · Post #4 » by **pickIBL** » Sat May 11, 2013 1:39 pm

the wizards are a cheap bunch but the fanbase wouldn't tolerate giving up the pick... even in this draft.

Post #5 » by **Inigo Montoya** » Sat May 11, 2013 1:47 pm

well, they did open their wallets for okafor and nene, among others. but yes, generally, you're right.

Post #6 » by **Ruzious** » Sat May 11, 2013 2:56 pm

The Wiz management & ownership love Okafor. To think they'd give up the 8th pick in the draft for the honor of giving him away is really stupid - especially considering he has only 1 year left on his contract.

kebutah · Post #7 » by **kebutah** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:28 pm

We couldn't even attempt it until after the July moratorium, not at the draft time. We don't have CAP space until then.

Post #8 » by **Inigo Montoya** » Sat May 11, 2013 5:57 pm

kebutah wrote:We couldn't even attempt it until after the July moratorium, not at the draft time. We don't have CAP space until then.

can't we just decline the bird rights of some of our FAs in order to get rid of their cap holds and thus freeing cap space?

reapaman · Post #9 » by **reapaman** » Sat May 11, 2013 6:40 pm

Inigo Montoya wrote:
kebutah wrote:We couldn't even attempt it until after the July moratorium, not at the draft time. We don't have CAP space until then.

can't we just decline the bird rights of some of our FAs in order to get rid of their cap holds and thus freeing cap space?

Can't renounce a players rights until they become free agents which is on july 1st.

Post #10 » by **Inigo Montoya** » Sat May 11, 2013 6:51 pm

cool. thanks for the info. :thumbsup: