Josh Smith to the D?

[DrRay11]

Atlanta doesn't get nearly enough there, IMO. Charlotte's angle is questionable as well...

[WTFchris]

Atlanta doesn't get nearly enough there, IMO. Charlotte's angle is questionable as well...

That's why I said I was skeptic I could come up with a deal.

[Glenn]

I wonder if the Lakers would dangle Odom to Atlanta as part of a Smith S&T?

[Glenn]

re: Smith and his BYC status

http://wtfdetroit.com/forums/showpos...53&postcount=5

[Kstat]

I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing as BYC status...

Basically, he can't be traded to the Pistons at all now? The Hawks couldn't even give him to us if they wanted to?

[Glenn]

Significant cap room would be required to make it happen, or a third team with significant cap room.

And the only team left like that is Memphis, and they're not going to use it.

[Higherwarrior]

definitely nothing new. confusing, yes. but not new. lol

I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing as BYC status...

Basically, he can't be traded to the Pistons at all now? The Hawks couldn't even give him to us if they wanted to?

[WTFchris]

Here are a couple of my posts from another thread on this:

So the Smith senario is possible, he just counts as 6 mil and we need to add a lot more filler on their end. Probably possible with Speedy Claxton in there. Or possibly with Childress and Pachulia in there.

So we could do:

Tay/Amir for Smith/Claxton
Tay/Amir/Max for Smith/Childress/Pachulia

Picks could be involved to balence things out if need be.





Well, the 2nd deal would give us a SF. Dyess could shift back to 6th man off the bench (I've always thought he fit better with Stuckey anyway on offense):

PG Billups/Stuckey/Bynum
SG RIP/Stuckey/AA
SF Childress/AA/Sharpe
PF Smith/Dyess/Pachulia
C Sheed/Dyess/Samb

That's without using the MLE or any other FA signings. We could still fill out the roster nicely.

The only trick is I think we'd need to be more aggressive moving RIP if we brought in Smith because I think the salaries would get too tight.

[Higherwarrior]

i REALLY don't think they'd do that 2nd deal. childress is more proven than amir and j-max and pachulia almost cancel each other out as far as value goes except zaza can play C. and i don't think they would value prince nearly as high as we do or to put it simply, they wouldn't think he's equal value for smith.

so the trade value-wise looks quite slanted to us.

maybe i'm wrong but i really don't think that deal would be to their liking. plus i've got to think that a re-signed smith AND childress are going to make a lot of money- enough that what we'd be giving up probably doesn't work under the cap. i don't know.

[WTFchris]

They won't do anything unless the players force their hand. They know that nobody can offer more than the MLE, so they'll wait it out. All of the discussion means nothing unless they declare they are not coming back.