With the NBA trade deadline looming, Trade Machinations rounds up real rumors (and creates fake ones) of moves that'd make the NBA a better, brighter place.What does Orlando want? "In trade talks with various teams, the Magic have been looking to add a defensive-minded power forward, mostly using a variety of their players with expiring contracts as bait." What has Seattle got? Kurt Thomas. Now, yes, you can argue that Thomas has a monster 8 million dollar expiring contract. But I can argue that Orlando has a package -- James Augustine, Pat Garrity and Carlos Arroyo -- that makes more expiring contract money than Thomas. So the Sonics pick up a little extra cap room next year, and Orlando lobs them a second round draft pick as well for their effort. Or not lobs.
Thomas provides the Magic with the defensive power forward they want, Seattle gets to add to it's future cap space and Thomas, who is apparently expendable now that Robert Swift will be stealing his playing time, gets to not be an eight million dollar waste on a non-contender.
Will it happen? Yes. Yes it will. The only hold up here -- I would imagine -- is whether the Sonics and Magic want to consider anything that might involve either J.J. Redick or Chris Wilcox. Well, that and the full compensation for the swap: draft picks, etc.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. The trade was supposed to be Kidd or Jose Calderon both good passers ( distributors) any of them capable of helping Howard to reach the finals in the East.
Posted at 3:14PM on Feb 19th 2008 by frank
2. Please lord let this happen. I am tired of watching the team play out of position. Lewis is not a PF yet he has been playing that role all season. We can finally have him go back to his natural position of SF and have Turkoglu back to playing SG. We need defense badly.
Posted at 3:35PM on Feb 19th 2008 by Michael