Another tanking team in the LEast?

[slamtheking]

If Kyrie is done for the season and they want to stay competitive in an effort to attract LeBron this offseason...

I'd offer them:

Rondo - 12 mil 2 years
Bass - 6.4 mil 2 years
Green - 8.7 mil 3 years

(total 27 mil)

For

Bynum - 12 mil
Kyrie - 5.6 mil 2 years
Waiters - 3.8 mil 3 years
Bennett - 5.3 mil 4 years

(total 27 mil)

Of course... I think they'd have to let Varejao expire in order to have enough cap space to even offer LeBron in the offseason... but maybe if you swapped out Humph's expiring for Bass it would make more sense.

LOL

If the Cavs did something like that, I would expect some crazed fan to burn down the Quicken Loans Arena. Maybe not even a single crazed fan, but rather a mob with hay forks and torches.

are you kidding, they'd be jumping for freaking joy.  The Garden is what would get torched. 

Bynum's a waiver waiting to happen, Kyrie hasn't led a team to anything and has an injury history, Waiters and Bennett are royal busts. 

[European NBA fan]

If Kyrie is done for the season and they want to stay competitive in an effort to attract LeBron this offseason...

I'd offer them:

Rondo - 12 mil 2 years
Bass - 6.4 mil 2 years
Green - 8.7 mil 3 years

(total 27 mil)

For

Bynum - 12 mil
Kyrie - 5.6 mil 2 years
Waiters - 3.8 mil 3 years
Bennett - 5.3 mil 4 years

(total 27 mil)

Of course... I think they'd have to let Varejao expire in order to have enough cap space to even offer LeBron in the offseason... but maybe if you swapped out Humph's expiring for Bass it would make more sense.

LOL

If the Cavs did something like that, I would expect some crazed fan to burn down the Quicken Loans Arena. Maybe not even a single crazed fan, but rather a mob with hay forks and torches.

are you kidding, they'd be jumping for freaking joy.  The Garden is what would get torched. 

Bynum's a waiver waiting to happen, Kyrie hasn't led a team to anything and has an injury history, Waiters and Bennett are royal busts.

I was absolutely kidding, and I'm not saying that it would be bad for the Cavs (though I'm not sure if it really would help them, since Rondo probably isn't himself right away).

[Roy H.]

The Cavs aren't trading Kyrie for Rondo. Teams don't trade young stars on rookie deals for old stars coming off major surgery.

[gpap]

If Kyrie is done for the season and they want to stay competitive in an effort to attract LeBron this offseason...

I'd offer them:

Rondo - 12 mil 2 years
Bass - 6.4 mil 2 years
Green - 8.7 mil 3 years

(total 27 mil)

For

Bynum - 12 mil
Kyrie - 5.6 mil 2 years
Waiters - 3.8 mil 3 years
Bennett - 5.3 mil 4 years

(total 27 mil)

Of course... I think they'd have to let Varejao expire in order to have enough cap space to even offer LeBron in the offseason... but maybe if you swapped out Humph's expiring for Bass it would make more sense.

LOL

If the Cavs did something like that, I would expect some crazed fan to burn down the Quicken Loans Arena. Maybe not even a single crazed fan, but rather a mob with hay forks and torches.

are you kidding, they'd be jumping for freaking joy.  The Garden is what would get torched. 

Bynum's a waiver waiting to happen, Kyrie hasn't led a team to anything and has an injury history, Waiters and Bennett are royal busts.

Pretty sure the Celts would be getting the better part of that deal.

[BballTim]

The Cavs aren't trading Kyrie for Rondo. Teams don't trade young stars on rookie deals for old stars coming off major surgery.

  If 27 is old KG and Ray must have been walking corpses when we traded for them. I wouldn't want to trade Rondo for Irving but if I had a choice between rookie year Irving an current Irving I'd go with the former. He's a young star, but not really what you'd have hoped he'd be by now.

[gpap]

The Cavs aren't trading Kyrie for Rondo. Teams don't trade young stars on rookie deals for old stars coming off major surgery.

  If 27 is old KG and Ray must have been walking corpses when we traded for them. I wouldn't want to trade Rondo for Irving but if I had a choice between rookie year Irving an current Irving I'd go with the former. He's a young star, but not really what you'd have hoped he'd be by now.

I actually find this to be an interesting topic of conversation.

I agree that the notion of Cleveland dealing Kyrie for Rondo might be far-fetched.

However, maybe Cleveland starts thinking about acquiring a "pass first" point guard.

Also, maybe they acquire Rondo thinking maybe that will help the Cavs attract other top free agents next summer.

I doubt the Cavs would do it, but if they did, I would jump all over it.

I really like Kyrie. I think he's a special player and is only getting better and better.

As for Rondo, I think he's already peaked and you already know what you have, a very talented distributor but not a very strong scorer.

[pearljammer10]

Wow

The NBA

Is just gonna be one huge. Tank a paloosa


I don't see how the east can get better ...if the good west teams get picks higher than a ton of horrible east teams

The worst ten teams period in the whole league should be in the lottery   Regardless of conference ........the west will only get stronger with this type of system that rewards conference and not the actual bad teams overall.

Wow the injuries in the NBA this year are crazy. Even crazier how they are lining up perfectly with the best draft in years.

[BballTim]

The Cavs aren't trading Kyrie for Rondo. Teams don't trade young stars on rookie deals for old stars coming off major surgery.

  If 27 is old KG and Ray must have been walking corpses when we traded for them. I wouldn't want to trade Rondo for Irving but if I had a choice between rookie year Irving an current Irving I'd go with the former. He's a young star, but not really what you'd have hoped he'd be by now.

I actually find this to be an interesting topic of conversation.

I agree that the notion of Cleveland dealing Kyrie for Rondo might be far-fetched.

However, maybe Cleveland starts thinking about acquiring a "pass first" point guard.

Also, maybe they acquire Rondo thinking maybe that will help the Cavs attract other top free agents next summer.

I doubt the Cavs would do it, but if they did, I would jump all over it.

I really like Kyrie. I think he's a special player and is only getting better and better.

  Again, I'd say he was better in his rookie year than he is now. How is he getting better and better?