Ramon Sessions available in a salary dump

[Drucci]

After signing Ramon Sessions to a four-year, $16 million contract a year ago, Minnesota Timberwolves general manager David Kahn is trying to unload the guard to teams able to absorb his salary, league executives told Yahoo! Sports.

“They’re basically looking for a salary dump,” said an executive with a team who spoke to Minnesota. “That won’t be easy.”

Kahn’s plan this time?

Trying to sign point guard Luke Ridnour to an identical four-year, $16 million contract, league sources said.

Still, Ridenour has shown little interest with the T’wolves, sources said, and seems willing to wait for a more compelling offer. What’s unclear is how this would affect Minnesota with Jonny Flynn as the starting point guard and the rights to Spain’s Ricky Rubio, who could come to the NBA after the 2010-11 season.

Minnesota has also shown serious interest with free-agent point guard Shaun Livingston, sources said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Ak8lFMrz9DgVoByLd5iHw728vLYF?slug=ys-freeagentbuzz071110

What about Sheed's contract for Sessions and Corey Brewer? It works salary wise and I think Minnesota would agree because they want to dump Sessions and they already have a lot of wings on their roster so they would be OK for trading Brewer (they have Webster, Johnson, Hayward).

Would you do that trade or rather trade Sheed for Barbosa and then sign a wing on a minimum contract?

[SCBirdman]

I would go for that. I like Sessions and that would make Nate expendable in another S&T deal.

Or we could include Nate and Sheed with OL and TG in a much larger S&T deal to net a PG, wing and big?

[hpantazo]

After signing Ramon Sessions to a four-year, $16 million contract a year ago, Minnesota Timberwolves general manager David Kahn is trying to unload the guard to teams able to absorb his salary, league executives told Yahoo! Sports.

“They’re basically looking for a salary dump,” said an executive with a team who spoke to Minnesota. “That won’t be easy.”

Kahn’s plan this time?

Trying to sign point guard Luke Ridnour to an identical four-year, $16 million contract, league sources said.

Still, Ridenour has shown little interest with the T’wolves, sources said, and seems willing to wait for a more compelling offer. What’s unclear is how this would affect Minnesota with Jonny Flynn as the starting point guard and the rights to Spain’s Ricky Rubio, who could come to the NBA after the 2010-11 season.

Minnesota has also shown serious interest with free-agent point guard Shaun Livingston, sources said.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Ak8lFMrz9DgVoByLd5iHw728vLYF?slug=ys-freeagentbuzz071110

What about Sheed's contract for Sessions and Corey Brewer? It works salary wise and I think Minnesota would agree because they want to dump Sessions and they already have a lot of wings on their roster so they would be OK for trading Brewer (they have Webster, Johnson, Hayward).

Would you do that trade or rather trade Sheed for Barbosa and then sign a wing on a minimum contract?

why is Khan after Ridnour when he has Flynn and the rights to sergio? He should be looking for some wings, not pg's. As for the celtics, no way I would trade for a mediocre pg with 3 years remaining on his contract.

[Vermont Green]

If Tony Allen is getting 3 years/$3M and Chris Duhon got 4 years/$4M, then Sessions is fair at 3 years/$4M.  Throw in Brewer and that is probably as good as we can expect for Sheed.  Unless you want Shawn Marion.

[More Banners]

It would be an absolute coup for the C's to get Sessions and Corey Brewer in exchange for Sheed's contract.  Heck, if they insisted on a draft pick, I'd say we're still coming out ahead.

[pearljammer10]

Im not sure how much of a Ramon Session's fan i am. Maybe I havent watched his game enough but id rather keep Nate and try to nab a guy like Harrington or Marion with Sheed.

[Mike-Dub]

Would you do that trade or rather trade Sheed for Barbosa and then sign a wing on a minimum contract?

I would much rather get Sessions and Brewer in a trade with Sheed's contract then Barbosa and a wing with the veteran minimum.  Getting Brewer would ease the loss of losing Tony and Brewer has a better offensive game than Tony. Brewer is an excellent defender and maybe Brewer could become a better defender, even on ball defender, than Tony with the veteran presence our team has.

I would love this deal!

[Finkelskyhook]

Sessions would extend Rondo's career by years.  Not much dropoff.

[erisred]

If Tony Allen is getting 3 years/$3M and Chris Duhon got 4 years/$4M, then Sessions is fair at 3 years/$4M.  Throw in Brewer and that is probably as good as we can expect for Sheed.  Unless you want Shawn Marion.

Cory Brewer would be the key piece in that deal. He is a long athletic 3 with good defense and some (not a lot, but some) offense. Sessions would be a reasonable backup to Rondo and Allen, but he is certainly not a shooter.

[aporel#18]

TP to Drucci, I was going to post the same trade when I read that Sessions would be available 

This would be a great trade for both parts, now that Minny drafted Wes Johnson and Lazar Hayward and signed Webster, they'd better make room at the wings.

The C's would still need a vet min Big, but a second unit with Sessions/Bradley/Brewer/Davis is good at D. The downside is that 3rd year for Sessions... DA wants flexibility, and maybe that'd be the trade killer. But Brewer would be worth it, in my opinion.

Make it happen, DA!

[Cman]

It'd be worth it for Brewer.

[Bankshot]

I like this idea.  Let's get it done. 

[Papatrichs]

I like his game when he was with the Bucks. I think he was the precursor of the Jennings era.

[nickagneta]

I don't like that neither is a good shooter.

Sessions is a good back up point guard but is extremely inconsistent and can never decide whether he wants to be a scoring PG or a distributor and that indecisiveness makes him less of a player.

Brewer is a very good defender that with some molding could be an exceptional defender. But he is a horrible outside shooter and has struggled offensively, though made some inroads last year.

With Doc penchant for 4 and 5 man second units, this much lack of outside shooting would be a hugely poor decision.

[Bahku]

I don't like that neither is a good shooter.

Sessions is a good back up point guard but is extremely inconsistent and can never decide whether he wants to be a scoring PG or a distributor and that indecisiveness makes him less of a player.

Brewer is a very good defender that with some molding could be an exceptional defender. But he is a horrible outside shooter and has struggled offensively, though made some inroads last year.

With Doc penchant for 4 and 5 man second units, this much lack of outside shooting would be a hugely poor decision.

TP - totally agree ... don't like it at all, and it just creates more problems than it fixes.