depends on the price. I think they are a couple of things we have to consider before Fields, before we can fully decide.
1) the ruling we have for Lin and Novak's early bird rights
2) If we trade anyone during draft night, who do we acquire on with our own pick(48), if we move up or acquire extra picks
*Assets include, rights to the two 2nd rounders we obtained with Tyson Chandler, Fields, Jordan, Jorts, Novak*
A) A team like OKC, his draft picks, and honestly, they just don't need to get any younger, and add more salary, I would not be surprised if they are looking to trade their pick,
we are lucky we are in the East, because they surely wouldn't look to make any teams in the West stronger.
I propose
Tyson Chander,
Novak(if we win the ruling and can do a sign and trade),
Jordan and our 2 2nd round rights we acquired with Tyson Chandler
*with JR Smith if they want* with anyone else besides Iman
for
Harden
Kendrick Perkins
their late 1st rounder 
Sefelosha or Cole Aldrich
B) If we can pull a deal for good potential players with our assets, as low risk/high reward for players like, or use part of our MLE
1) Donte Green
2) JJ Hickson
3) Terrence Williams
4) Flynn, Oden, Hollins
3) I think we MUST keep an eye on this draft and do a great job scouting, we need to find cheap talent(it doesn't get cheaper than this), we need to see who will fall out of the draft, and quickly invite whoever we think has great upside and/or ready to contribute. Using a portion of the MLE to acquire cheap talent for 2-3years so we have bird rights
A) Darius Johnson-Odom, Jae Crowder, Henry Sims, Hollis Thompson, Scoop Jardine, and whoever else we could somehow acquire....
4) What portion will Lin take, if JR Smith opts out(do we resign for 20% extra), Novak(if we have his early bird rights, what would he cost) and Fields (what would he cost)
5) We have to see where we are at salary wise, if we still have the MLE, and/or Bi Annual exemption, since we could be approaching 69-74( by 70m to 74, we lose the MLE, getting whatever is left, or if we go over it, we get the mini MLE at 3m, but we lose the BAE, if we are above the 74m tax payer bracket with or without the MLE)
6) We would be very close to the 70-74m payroll as taxpayers, but if we are over 74m, we lose a the ability to acquire much needed talent, and every dollar makes a difference.
A) If we can somehow still maintain our MLE and BAE how many roster spots do we have left
B) Decide who and what positions are invited to training camp that weren't drafted, that we would keep
C) If we still have a need for Fields, I WOULD NOT lose the ability to lose our MLE and BAE, if we had to decide to keep Fields or anyone
1) Fields isn't a SG, he is a SF and if he improves his shot, which is very possible, he could be a huge steal, but truth is, he wouldn't find much minutes at SF, unless he improves his shot
2)TD's contract could be the difference here with Balkman *OMG*
BRIGGs, how do you feel about this plan and for the low risk/ high reward players in
1) Donte Green
2) JJ Hickson
3) Terrence Williams
4) Flynn, Oden, Hollins
While Tyson Chandler/Novak and change for Harden and Perkins might change our defense, whenever adding a player of Hardens caliber would be intriguing.
This could allow OKC to not worry about paying 2 more max contracts or near max with Ibaka and Harden, while adding players that play a better team game, with Novak's ability to spread the floor with Durant, and Westbrook to create shots for him.
Tyson Chandler >>> Perkins, but Perkins has post moves and can hit a 17footer, so he could work better with Amare and Melo.
I don't think they would actually give us a 1st round pick with it or even Cole Aldrich, but I really want Darius Johnson-Odom.
Is this deal totally lopsided? Any shot, if OKC gets beat by the Spurs, as a much less talented team but much better team work/chemistry?
5/24/2012 2:14 PM
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