I don't think a single one of those trades is realistic.
I would have to agree.
Besides most of them make us worse...much worse. Trade Rondo and others for Hayward? Utah would be laughing at our severe stupidity for years to come if we did yesss to say. Boston would be the laughing stock of the year. That rivals the trade that sent Gasol to the Lakers in terms of severe lopsidedness.
you mean the trade that netted Memphis Marc Gasol, the cap space to sign Zach Randolph, and bad enough to get Love in the draft (they stupidly traded him for Mayo).
Keep pretending that was good trade because years down the line things worked out. Salary dump + low level picks + prospects was and remains a terrible value for Pau Gasol.
It worked out for them, but the a better value for the TWolves did poop for the Wolves. Subsequent GM work doesn't make the trade better.
They wanted Marc Gasol, specifically requested him. You know the guy that was in the middle of a MVP season in the second best league in the world at the time of the trade. You know the guy that came over the following summer and was a 12/7 center in the NBA in his rookie year.
Memphis won 22 games the season before with Pau Gasol (and were on pace for a similar record at the time of the trade). They had never even won a playoff game with Pau Gasol. They were going nowhere and going nowhere fast. They traded him, picked up a lot of cap relief, sure, but also picked up a recent first rounder that had shown some talent, a couple of future first rounders, and the MVP of the second best league in the world. It was a good trade for Memphis. It was a good trade for LA. Frankly, Memphis got more value for Gasol than Minnesota did for Garnett (pretty much Marc Gasol alone dictated that).
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