Rip Trades

[lospistones]

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMa...radeId=4vnhnyt
Rip and Summers for Mohammed and Carroll and a 2nd rounder. This is similar to the Prince/Maxiell for Kaman/expiring trade, but reversed.
This equates to a playoff push for them.

Augustin/Livingston-----McGrady/Bynum/White
Jackson/Hamilton-------Stuckey/Gordon/Carroll
Wallace/Jackson--------Prince/Daye/Jerebko
Diaw/Thomas-----------Wilcox/Villanueva/Maxiell
Brown/Thomas----------Wallace/Monroe/Mohammed

If they are weak at C we can take on another player and give them Wilcox, but now they have to give us a 1st rounder.
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMa...radeId=4e96r8s
Augustin/Livingston-----McGrady/Bynum/White
Jackson/Hamilton-------Stuckey/Gordon/Carroll
Wallace/Jackson--------Prince/Daye/Jerebko
Diaw/Thomas-----------Villanueva/Maxiell/Najera
Brown/Wilcox-----------Wallace/Monroe/Mohammed

These trades could all happen because we are cutting salary.

[lospistones]

Actually, Charlotte would do best to go:
Augustin/Hamilton/Jackson/Wallace/Brown, but whatevs.

[Pharaoh]

Trade Rip to anyone for any shorter contract or combo of shorter contacts.

He is not part of the future and we don't need him around whining or becoming an issue.

Go with Stuckey/McGrady the rest of the way with BG/Bynum off the bench - it's working better that way already.

[lospistones]

A bigger trade would be Hamilton/Prince/Summers/White for Curry/Azubuike/Mason/Turiaf.
They'd only have Randolph/Stoudemire/Chandler/Mozgov at the power positions, but whatever. That's a pretty decent lineup.
McGrady/Bynum/Mason
Stuckey/Gordon
Daye/Azubuike/Jerebko
Monroe/Villanueva/Maxiell/Turiaf
Wallace/Wilcox/Curry

[lospistones]

Rip for Eddy Curry sounds good for both teams at this point, too.
*if they lose out on Carmelo and want to make a playoff push with a backsliding roster.

[WTFchris]

NY will not give away their cap space. At this point we've seen nothing to indicate Melo will sign any extension and NY has to be the front runners to sign him if no extension happens.

I could see them moving Gallinari and Randolph to us for RIP and future first (this year's pick is too valuable). Then they could try and trade for Melo with Chandler/Curry/firsts. If Denver won't do it they simply sign him this summer.

[Glenn]

Man, I wish Chicago had a few more bad contracts other than Deng's. I think Rip would be perfect there.

[Vinny]

Man, I wish Chicago had a few more bad contracts other than Deng's. I think Rip would be perfect there.

I've been trying to tell my Chicago friends this since the summer. He'd be perfect on that squad. All I hear is "We don't want your Detroit trash!"

[lospistones]

Milwaukee and Indiana are also playing poorly as of late.
Milwaukee will be under the cap by 8 million or so next year, but who really wants to play for Milwaukee?
We could send them Hamilton/Wilcox or Maxiell for Michael Redd, an expiring.

McGrady/Bynum/White------------------------Jennings/Dooling/Boykins
Stuckey/Gordon/Redd-------------------------Hamilton/Delfino/Douglas-Roberts
Prince/Daye/Summers------------------------Maggette/Salmons
Monroe/Villanueva/Jerebko-------------------Ilyasova/Mbah a Moute
Wallace/Maxiell or Wilcox---------------------Bogut/Gooden

Something like that? Rip gets reunited with John Hammond?

[lospistones]

Hamilton for Dunleavy, who is expiring, also works. Hamilton is far more durable than Dunleavy.