Pistons trade rumors/media speculation (Offseason 2009)

I have been saying all along that chasing Turkoglu would be foolish. The guy is 30 years old and is not worth the money we would have to pay (I agree with Kstat - anything over $7 mil for him is too steep)

IF the MLE is approx $5 mil I would hazard a guess and say that Ariza could be had for a starting salary of $6 mil. If the Lakers wanna pay him that then good for them - enjoy paying the luxury tax. He's not worth more than $6 mil though and we don't wanna just throw money around cause we've got it.

Fair market value and not much more IMO. We're the only real playoff team bidding for any of these cats.

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Originally Posted by Zekyl

I'm pretty sure Ariza was a 1 year guy in college. I know he played for UCLA. If we got a bigtime scorer at SG and PF, grabbing a hustling defender at SF would not be a bad thing in the slightest.

u ah correct sah

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

I have been saying all along that chasing Turkoglu would be foolish. The guy is 30 years old and is not worth the money we would have to pay (I agree with Kstat - anything over $7 mil for him is too steep)

IF the MLE is approx $5 mil I would hazard a guess and say that Ariza could be had for a starting salary of $6 mil. If the Lakers wanna pay him that then good for them - enjoy paying the luxury tax. He's not worth more than $6 mil though and we don't wanna just throw money around cause we've got it.

Fair market value and not much more IMO. We're the only real playoff team bidding for any of these cats.

careful

What other team has a ton of cap space and has our history?

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Originally Posted by Pharaoh

What other team has a ton of cap space and has our history?

Didn't the Bulls have that after MJ at one point? Orlando had the space, but no history of winning to attract FA's.

For some reason I think they had a lot of space around the time of the Brand trade. Or was that when Kobe was going to be a FA and they wanted to try for him?

Has.

We can haz cap space.

I love Ariza's game, but can he hold up over an 82 game season guarding the other teams best player every night? Ariza had the luxury of playing next to Kobe on offense AND defense. At least we know Prince will hold up over the course of a year.

We know that Tay has held up all year, will that continue?

Finding that point of diminishing returns is key.

Do we know Ariza would play as well outside the triangle?