Not a big fan whatsoever.  Yes he had an excellent scoring series but he's one-dimensional and undersized.  Some dumb team is going to overpay for him this summer.  I say the wise move for Chicago would be to let him walk- move Salmons to the 2 and Deng is your starting 3.  I don't want to face that team.  I'd much prefer if Gordon keeps his role on that team.

As for coming to the Celts this is the same guy who turned down 10 or 11 million dollars a year last summer and signed a short contract.  That wasn't enough for him per year.

I think he's overrated and he's basically a cross between Jamal Crawford and John Starks.

Chicago can keep its crotch-grabber.

He's repeatedly turned down a 5 year, $50 million contract from Chicago, and said he wants something like the 6 year, $71 million deal that Luol Deng got.  The most we can offer is going to be roughly $5 million - $5.5 million (the MLE).

Luol Deng made $9,385,000 in the first year of his new deal.  Let's assume Gordon agrees to a deal for $9 million.  Normally, we'd have to send out contracts within 25% of that amount, plus $100k.  That means we'd need to send salaries between $7,120,000 million and $11,350,000 to Chicago.  In this case, though, it's substantially more complicated than that, due to Base Year Compensation rules.  See here.  If I'm doing my math right, under BYC rules we'd have to trade players making somewhere between $7.12 million and $8.1 million (125% + $100k of Gordon's previous salary) to make the trade work for both Chicago and Boston.

Technically, we could pull something like that off, by offering Scal + Tony + Giddens + Walker (combined salaries of $7,356,131).  I'm not sure, though, that that deal would be in the best interests of either team.

(Wow... *way* too much work went into answering that question.  )

 

I'd rather have Eddie.

I'd rather have Eddie.

Well, if I could just choose between the two, I'd take Gordon.

But value-wise, I'd take Eddie in a heartbeat.

The chance of this happening is very close to zero, and the money could be better used on other players.

I've got a feeling Gordon is going to be a Knick at the end of the offseason. He fits their style to a tee: all offense, little D and uptempo. The Knicks need to start adding some guns like that if they want to entice players to give them a serious look in '10.

Hmmm, interesting idea.  Normally, I would agree with you, but keep in mind they will need to extend Lee and Robinson this offseason.  My guess after each gets their multi-year extension (I am guessing around $8M/yr for each), the Knicks will have about $24M left under the cap in 2010.  They will probably want to preserve much of that, but we'll see.