Gordon in a sign-and-trade for Iverson?

[rondohondo]

http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2009/07/gordon_in_a_signandtrade_for_i.html

Ken Berger of CBS Sports has been pretty busy the last couple days. He's broke some pretty big signings, the latest of which are Ron Artest to the Lakers and now Trevor Ariza to the Rockets. Now he is reporting that the Bulls and Pistons may work out a sign and trade between Ben Gordon and Allen Iverson.

At least the Bulls would get a legit scorer back instead of losing Gordon for nothing....

[BBS]

http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2009/07/gordon_in_a_signandtrade_for_i.html

Ken Berger of CBS Sports has been pretty busy the last couple days. He's broke some pretty big signings, the latest of which are Ron Artest to the Lakers and now Trevor Ariza to the Rockets. Now he is reporting that the Bulls and Pistons may work out a sign and trade between Ben Gordon and Allen Iverson.

At least the Bulls would get a legit scorer back instead of losing Gordon for nothing....

If this is true it must be nice to have teams help other teams out. I mean it's not as big as the Pau Gasol trade but please Gordan was gonna walk anyway thats just crazy your gonna turn around and help the Bulls get a guy for a guy you can just sign. When is a team gonna help out Boston like this. and don't say Minny did cuz we gave up alot to get KG.

[Celtic Fan Forever]

http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2009/07/gordon_in_a_signandtrade_for_i.html

Ken Berger of CBS Sports has been pretty busy the last couple days. He's broke some pretty big signings, the latest of which are Ron Artest to the Lakers and now Trevor Ariza to the Rockets. Now he is reporting that the Bulls and Pistons may work out a sign and trade between Ben Gordon and Allen Iverson.

At least the Bulls would get a legit scorer back instead of losing Gordon for nothing....

If this is true it must be nice to have teams help other teams out. I mean it's not as big as the Pau Gasol trade but please Gordan was gonna walk anyway thats just crazy your gonna turn around and help the Bulls get a guy for a guy you can just sign. When is a team gonna help out Boston like this. and don't say Minny did cuz we gave up alot to get KG.

They're not helping Chicago... they're punishing them by giving them Iverson. 

[BBS]

http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2009/07/gordon_in_a_signandtrade_for_i.html

Ken Berger of CBS Sports has been pretty busy the last couple days. He's broke some pretty big signings, the latest of which are Ron Artest to the Lakers and now Trevor Ariza to the Rockets. Now he is reporting that the Bulls and Pistons may work out a sign and trade between Ben Gordon and Allen Iverson.

At least the Bulls would get a legit scorer back instead of losing Gordon for nothing....

If this is true it must be nice to have teams help other teams out. I mean it's not as big as the Pau Gasol trade but please Gordan was gonna walk anyway thats just crazy your gonna turn around and help the Bulls get a guy for a guy you can just sign. When is a team gonna help out Boston like this. and don't say Minny did cuz we gave up alot to get KG.

They're not helping Chicago... they're punishing them by giving them Iverson. 

True. But seriously when is a team gonna help us out. Say we a team wants Glen and we can't match the offer do you think that team will do a sign and trade with us. I THINK NOT.

TP cuz that was funny.

[PosImpos]

...I don't understand the point of this.

Both Iverson and Gordon are unrestricted free agents. 

[Roy Hobbs]

...I don't understand the point of this.

Both Iverson and Gordon are unrestricted free agents. 

It would allow Chicago to give AI more than the MLE (or save Chicago from having to use its MLE on Iverson), and it would permit Detroit to give Gordon more than an 8% annual raise (they could give him 10.5% raises if he's signed by Chicago).  Also, if Detroit wanted to, it could give Gordon a sixth year if Chicago traded him to them.

[Fafnir]

...I don't understand the point of this.

Both Iverson and Gordon are unrestricted free agents. 

It would allow Chicago to give AI more than the MLE (or save Chicago from having to use its MLE on Iverson), and it would permit Detroit to give Gordon more than an 8% annual raise (they could give him 10.5% raises if he's signed by Chicago).  Also, if Detroit wanted to, it could give Gordon a sixth year if Chicago traded him to them.

Ha I hope it happens! It'd be a bad move for both franchises.

[Moranis]

...I don't understand the point of this.

Both Iverson and Gordon are unrestricted free agents. 

It would allow Chicago to give AI more than the MLE (or save Chicago from having to use its MLE on Iverson), and it would permit Detroit to give Gordon more than an 8% annual raise (they could give him 10.5% raises if he's signed by Chicago).  Also, if Detroit wanted to, it could give Gordon a sixth year if Chicago traded him to them.

What I don't get is, didn't Detroit have to renounce AI in order to have all that cap room?

Another potential benefit to the Pistons to a sign and trade is that they could in theory sign an additional free agent and then do the sign and trade for Gordon.  I mean say they want Marion or Kidd.  They could sign that guy and Villanueva and then sign and trade to get Gordon and thus get that extra free agent. 

[BballTim]

http://blog.mlive.com/fullcourtpress/2009/07/gordon_in_a_signandtrade_for_i.html

Ken Berger of CBS Sports has been pretty busy the last couple days. He's broke some pretty big signings, the latest of which are Ron Artest to the Lakers and now Trevor Ariza to the Rockets. Now he is reporting that the Bulls and Pistons may work out a sign and trade between Ben Gordon and Allen Iverson.

At least the Bulls would get a legit scorer back instead of losing Gordon for nothing....

If this is true it must be nice to have teams help other teams out. I mean it's not as big as the Pau Gasol trade but please Gordan was gonna walk anyway thats just crazy your gonna turn around and help the Bulls get a guy for a guy you can just sign. When is a team gonna help out Boston like this. and don't say Minny did cuz we gave up alot to get KG.

  The teams aren't helping other teams out. They're helping the players out (AI can get more money this way). More importantly, they're helping the player's agent out. Every nba team wants to be on the good side of every nba agent. For instance, what if we'd had a chance to do this in the past but chose not to because we didn't want to help the other team out. What if the player we didn't help out had the same agent as, say, Rasheed Wallace?

[Eja117]

...I don't understand the point of this.

Both Iverson and Gordon are unrestricted free agents. 

It would allow Chicago to give AI more than the MLE (or save Chicago from having to use its MLE on Iverson), and it would permit Detroit to give Gordon more than an 8% annual raise (they could give him 10.5% raises if he's signed by Chicago).  Also, if Detroit wanted to, it could give Gordon a sixth year if Chicago traded him to them.

Ha I hope it happens! It'd be a bad move for both franchises.

Completely agreed