I posted this a while ago, but it's relevant here:
Giddens' deal is a team option from here out, Walker, Pruitt, Tony and Scal are expiring, as is House now that he's accepted his option.
All together, these players could fetch up to 13.9 million dollars worth of contracts in return in various combinations. The C's wouldn't really miss any of these players if they got value in return; for other teams it would have to be a straight salary dump of players making up to 13 million per year but locked up past next season.
So, what players make 13.9 or less and play for teams that would trade them away to have expiring and cuttable contracts? (it needs to be a pure money move becasue trading 6 for 1 means the team would need to cut some of them).
Possibilities that I could see arising, depending on team finances:
Gerald wallace 9.1
boris diaw 9.0
Diop 6.1
hinrich 9.5
deng 10.4
dampier 10.2
ellis 11
steph jackson 7.7
maggette 9.0
Turiaf 4.2
troy murphy 11.1
Mike Dunleavy 9.8
TJ Ford 8.5
Foster 6.1
Baron 12.1
Kaman 10.4
baron 12.2
bogut 10.0
Charlie Bell 3.6
Dooling 3.6
CHandler 11.9
Posey 6.3
Peterson 6.1
Curry 10.6
Jefferies 6.5
dalembert 11.4
reggie evans 5.0
jason richardson 13.4
Barbosa 6.6
nocioni 7.5
Udrih 6.1
Garcia 5.8
Kapono 6.3
cj miles 3.7
edit:
add:
Collison 6.35
Krstic 5.161
Battier 6.85
Prince 11.63
Hamilton 10.325
Maxiell 5.0
There may be some workable combos there. For example, I think golden state may give maggette away for expiring contracts since they reportedly regret the deal. Would you do scal, tony, giddens and pruitt for maggette? would golden state throw in Turiaf, and do a maggette + Turiaf for Scal, tony, eddie, pruitt, giddens, walker?
Phoenix is looking to cut dough, would they want richardson off the books?
Clippers are rebuilding a bit, would they like to wipe Kaman off the books? Baron?
New Orleans tried to give Chandler away to save money last year, would they do it again? With Shaq out of Phoenix, would a three way be possible in which Chandler goes to PHO, Richardson to boston, and expiring deals to N.O.?
milwaukee's dumping salary and trying to sign sessions, have they soured on bogut?
Will chicago dump hinrich in order to make a big free agent splash to pair with Rose? THey were good last year without Deng, do they regret that contract?
Does rebuilding Sactown really have use for nocioni?
Thoughts...