Trade idea: Memphis and Boston

[stylo617617]

love this idea , except for conley's contract beign that long i guess we can always amnesty him down the road

but if you ask me we shouldve did this yesterday that leaves us with a bit more cap space next year , 2 nice young pieces @ 3 1st round picks which we can use to A.aquire a good player that a team wants to unload with our cap space or B. trade up in the draft for a top 10 pick drummond,lamb anybody?

[FlightlessBird]

you can't amnesty a player you traded for.

[celts55]

me and my friend debated this...how do you guys think

OK so we all know that Dwight narrowed his team down to Clippers, Lakers, NJ, and Dallas so assuming Boston is not in his choice

ok now what if you trade Pierce for Rudy Gay, salary works out well, we get a younger forward that can run with Rondo

2. trade Garnett for Josh Smith + filler (Garnett 21 mil vs Smith's 13 mil, need fillers)

now Josh Smith during the summer said he wants to play in Boston and of course we all know that he and Rondo are good buddies since High School

ALSO, Dwight also wanted Orlando to trade for Josh Smith since they were also buddies during HS

ok now we have Rondo, Gay and Smith, 3 young athletic players

Can acquiring a young SF in Gay and Josh Smith convince Dwight to come here? Well will Josh Smith being in Boston be enough to convince Dwight to even think about Boston...

Just wondering Why is this other team trading Josh Smith for KG? And it Gay an improvment over Pierce?

[FallGuy]

me and my friend debated this...how do you guys think

OK so we all know that Dwight narrowed his team down to Clippers, Lakers, NJ, and Dallas so assuming Boston is not in his choice

ok now what if you trade Pierce for Rudy Gay, salary works out well, we get a younger forward that can run with Rondo

2. trade Garnett for Josh Smith + filler (Garnett 21 mil vs Smith's 13 mil, need fillers)

now Josh Smith during the summer said he wants to play in Boston and of course we all know that he and Rondo are good buddies since High School

ALSO, Dwight also wanted Orlando to trade for Josh Smith since they were also buddies during HS

ok now we have Rondo, Gay and Smith, 3 young athletic players

Can acquiring a young SF in Gay and Josh Smith convince Dwight to come here? Well will Josh Smith being in Boston be enough to convince Dwight to even think about Boston...

Just wondering Why is this other team trading Josh Smith for KG? And it Gay an improvment over Pierce?

Atlanta does not make that deal.
Memphis does not make that deal.

[SHAQATTACK]

I don't see us being in the postion to trade with any team for ANY major star or impact player .  We can trade sideways , but not up much .  We can't trade up as far as we need to go to get the players this team needs.

We simply don't have the player assets , evcept Rondo.

We need to draft some new valuable talent.

[StartOrien]

I think its a double 'no.'

Boston doesn't get enough value for Rondo, and Rondo is a poor fit for Memphis.

[pearljammer10]

Throwing it out there and throwing it away.

[wiley]

I don't like this deal.  But can someone straighten me out on Mayo?  Didn't he play well in last year's playoffs?  Is he really so horrible?

I like Conley and don't underrate him.  I just like Rondo that much more.

[FrDrake]

me and my friend debated this...how do you guys think

OK so we all know that Dwight narrowed his team down to Clippers, Lakers, NJ, and Dallas so assuming Boston is not in his choice

ok now what if you trade Pierce for Rudy Gay, salary works out well, we get a younger forward that can run with Rondo

2. trade Garnett for Josh Smith + filler (Garnett 21 mil vs Smith's 13 mil, need fillers)

now Josh Smith during the summer said he wants to play in Boston and of course we all know that he and Rondo are good buddies since High School

ALSO, Dwight also wanted Orlando to trade for Josh Smith since they were also buddies during HS

ok now we have Rondo, Gay and Smith, 3 young athletic players

Can acquiring a young SF in Gay and Josh Smith convince Dwight to come here? Well will Josh Smith being in Boston be enough to convince Dwight to even think about Boston...

I don't think the Gay for Pierce trade is so far fetched.  Maybe DA could squeeze an extra first round pick out of Memphis to get the deal done.  

Why memphis does it - they think they can contend NOW, and Pierce gives them veteran leadership, scoring, D + a shorter contract.

Why Boston does it - Gay is obviously a much younger player anda talented scorer who you could build around w/ Rondo + another free agent (or trade w/ cap room) likely for a big man such as everyone's wet dream Kevin Love + solid drafting.

[TheTruthFot18]

Honestly not against trading rondo for the right deal. Might just be the grizzlies bandwagon here but I like a lot of guys on that team.

You make a good point with Mayo, a lot of potential and a real scorer. His switch to the bench really hurt his value, he actually looked bad in the few games I saw so far. Conley is definitely a real up and comer who has a lot of potential.

The Grizz are really set on that starting unit but if they could get rid of mayo and sacrifice conley for rondo, they might do it. This would put a bigger scoring load on Gay and ZBo though.

Also, I don;t want Oden or Blatche here ever.

[guava_wrench]

Sounds like we would be the Boston Grizzlies.  A very grizzly lineup indeed.  Rule #1:  Never trade an elite player for 2 okay players.

I love Rondo, but he's a borderline allstar.

3 years in a row is not borderline, unless you mean borderline perennial.

Yeah. Mo Williams and Wally Szerbiak(sp?) are examples of borderline all stars who were lucky to ever make it.