http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=p4kugyz
Asik and green to Indiana
Lin and hibbert to Boston
Bogans and TE to Houston - waive bogans and go after melo
I don't really want Hibbert, but you know what? This is actually pretty good. It makes sense. Have to work out the specifics on how it could be broken into separate trades, but not bad.
I know this sounds crazy, 27 year old allstar center, but I totally agree. He has one of the lower BBIQs I've ever seen. It's crazy how slow his reactions are even if we're just talking rebounds, but his rotations in the playoffs this year were garbage. The league seems to have figured him out. Play a stretch 5 and Hibbert is useless. His averages for last season were (generously) 11/7/2. For $15M/yr that isn't good enough. Sullinger is statistically a much better player.
I'd rather have Asik. He makes less $ for less years and plays way better defense. I don't see why we'd take the lesser center who averaged 9/6/1 in 30 minutes of play when we could just cut Indiana out of the trade, get Asik and trade them Bogans + TPE for Lin/Asik. They get cap space this year, we get it next year. And we can keep Green or trade him to Washington in a separate deal.
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lgyhmnuWith our #6 and the (unprotected) Brooklyn pick next year going to Minny and the Philly pick we got this year going to Houston. Minny will ask for another pick, maybe next year's LAC 1st, and I'd probably cave but they'd have to swap me Kevin Martin for Joel's contract.
Minny gets Sully + three 1st round picks and Houston gets Green, cap space and a potential 1st (likely 2 high 2nds).