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2/9/2008  1:27 PM
it seems to me the only GM's who are likely to be complaining here are the other contending teams in the league... so let's examine what they could have offered in return for Pau that's realistic:

SA: they got Manu to offer up in a deal... why does MEM need Manu when they already got 2 guys in Miller & Gay who are younger that play the same position? they ain't giving up Parker or Duncan obviously, so what the hell else do they have to offer? Fabricio Oberto? come on Pop, stop the whining... if you don't have anything better to offer than what MEM got then shut yer yapper & deal w/it... they didn't have any contracts to match up to Pau's salary regardless without including 1 of their big 3.

DEN: let's see, MEM could have traded Pau's horrendous contract in exchange for K-Mart or Nene's... that makes perfect sense... i'm sure they woulda been willing to give up Camby too, right? get real... next.

UTA: AK47 & Millsap woulda been a solid trade for Pau... i have to think Utah wasn't offering those guys for Pau, but i could be wrong... none of us knows what type of discussions occurred so it's all speculation... all i know is the deal didn't get done... everyone knew Pau was on the trading block all year so what's Utah's excuse if they had the pieces to get a deal done?

POR: they worked all last year to get back to some semblence of cap flexibility & have their franchise bigman in Oden coming back next year... makes perfect sense for them to make a trade & blow all that up to acquire Pau, doesn't it?

PHO: why does MEM need or want Marion again? the Suns they got their bigman in Shaq after the fact regardless... are they gonna whine now that they made a horrible trade & coulda got Pau instead? i doubt it. i'd much rather take my chances w/Shaq anyway, even w/him being almost ready to call it a career.

GS: they can offer up Al Harrington, Michael Pietrus & Matt Barnes, all of whom are swingmen, & we all know MEM needs more of those... Biedrins is a RFA after this season, so MEM can simply offer him a contract if they want him & still have the picks they got back from the Lakers... funny thing about cap space & picks, they offer a team options, something the Knicks don't have because they're laden down w/so many crap contracts.

DAL: no way would they have given up Josh Howard for Pau, so what else do they have to offer? Jason Terry? come on, let's be real here... why does MEM want a 30 yo Jason Terry when they have Mike Conley who they want to be their franchise PG going forward? Crittendon & picks was a much more sensible option for a rebuilding team... Devin Harris woulda been a nice pickup for MEM to pair w/Conley in their backcourt, but not enough for Pau, unless of course DAL was also throwing in 2 first round picks on top of it... what expiring contracts do they have to match up the dollars tho? Stackhouse? if DAL included Stack in the trade along w/Harris, would they also have been willing to give up those picks? i seriously doubt it... so does a package of Stack, Diop, Harris & a 1st round pick from DAL for example surpass Crittendon, Gasol's draft rights, 2 1st rounders, an expiring & cash for a rebuilding team? i don't think it does.

NO: they're obviously holding onto David West & Tyson Chandler, so they shouldn't even be interested in getting Pau to begin with.

HOU: does MEM want or need T-Mac? what's he gonna do for them other than eat up their cap space for the next 3 years & lead them to mediocrity? so ruling that out, let's see who else the Rockets could have offered... Battier, Head, Sura & Scola? does that trump the deal the Griz got back from the Lakers? the Grizzlies obviously placed more importance on the cap room & picks, & who can blame a rebuilding franchise for that?

TOR: unless they're willing to give up Bargnani there's nothing here to discuss

BOS: blew their gizz on the big 3... next

DET: has some solid young pieces in Maxiell, Aflalo & Stuckey, all the type of players that can easily be acquired w/the picks the Griz got back in the LA trade.

CLE: Larry Hughes ain't gettin' it done, i'm sorry... a package of Gooden, Varejao, Newble's expiring & a pick woulda been a nice package tho... again, was CLE willing to give that up? who knows... it's all speculation at this point.

ORL: they have plenty of expirings to offer in Arroyo, Garrity, Dooling & Mo Evans... would they have included the multiple picks & cash to go w/them? does that trump the package of Crittendon, Gasol, 2 1st rounders, Kwame's expiring & cash the Grizz got back from LA? both teams have similar records so the picks are likely to be around the same range regardless.

WAS: (i'll throw them in there cuz they're just under .500 & may have been desperate for that final piece to take them over the top) Antawn Jamison's expiring is not enough for Pau cuz then where does that leave MEM? it would be a pure salary dump in that case w/no picks or no other benefit going back to the Grizz... stupid move to make... & there's no way the Wiz are trading away Caron Butler or Agent Zero so that ends any discussions right there.

CHI: (i'll throw them in there since there were widespread rumors about a potential Pau swap earlier in the season w/the Bulls) they were obviously in heavy discussions w/the Bulls all year & nothing got done... if the Bulls wanted Pau so much they shoulda stepped up their offer apparently... Gordon, TT, filler & a pick woulda been a nice package but were the Bulls willing to give it up is the question.


so where are all these "better options" the Grizz passed up?
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2/9/2008  1:57 PM
Posted by TMS:

would they really have been better off trading Pau for Shawn Marion, Jason Kidd or Shaq this year? what would that have accomplished? none of those players would have been happy playing in Memphis & they wouldn't have had the supporting cast to take that team far into the playoffs regardless... i also don't see why any team would give up a top lottery pick for Pau Gasol either, unless of course Isiah was the one making the deal... then anything's possible.

Which is why I wouldn't trade Zach for Jermaine O'neal. What would be the game plan factoring in everything?

If you're sticking with the deals being different between the two players, then is the Game plan to cut salary? If it is, we can trade for more immediate expirings and possibly acquire Trade Exception(s) instead of a player, who although talented in many respects, is a high risk and doesn't position us as a definite Top 8 team in the conference. With the Trade exception(s) sign free agents on 1-2yr deals even with us being over the cap. Which wouldn't be standing pat BTW.

What I find comical is fans are still thinking of ways to drum up/support trades that may give us a chance to make the playoffs, almost at any risk. Trying to gloss it over saying "well hey we cut a little salary here". When in all honesty we could do the same thing, except take less risks.


[Edited by - TrueBlue on 02-09-2008 1:04 PM]
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2/9/2008  2:03 PM
JO's a much better defender than Zach, which is what we desperately need right now, and his contract runs a year shorter... not sure why that doesn't make sense in your eyes.

u keep saying we can trade Zach for shorter expirings & picks, but can't seem to come up w/any teams who could offer that to us... that's what's comical to me... like i said to u many times already, i'm all ears ready to listen... i'd definitely wanna go that route if i could... i've suggested Kwame, Crittendon & a pick from the Lakers before many times but they went w/Pau instead cuz obviously Zach wasn't cutting it for them... so what other teams are out there ready to throw picks at us to get back Zach's contract?

[Edited by - TMS on 02-09-2008 11:06 AM]
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2/9/2008  2:20 PM
Who cares what pop thinks or any GM for the matter. Im convince talant is only 50% of the recipe for total success. Im surely not going to look at the suns and lakers any different then before as far as them being title contenders. As a matter of fact history has showed us the team wih less super stars on it, tends to have a better shot at the title then a team with 3 and 4 super stars unless there is some bonifide sacrificing. Kobe, gasol, bynum, and odom is probably worst then Kobe, malone, shaq, and payton.
I like Bynum, he looks like the 2nd coming of J Oneal, but the lakers needed a bonifide PG as oppose to a super star PF. The suns getting shaq seem more like 20 mill of the cap in 2 years move, and a decent shot at a title this year which i think they were already there.
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2/9/2008  2:30 PM
Posted by TMS:

JO's a much better defender than Zach, which is what we desperately need right now, and his contract runs a year shorter... not sure why that doesn't make sense in your eyes.

u keep saying we can trade Zach for shorter expirings & picks, but can't seem to come up w/any teams who could offer that to us... like i said to u many times already, i'm all ears ready to listen... i'd definitely wanna go that route if i could... i've suggested Kwame, Crittendon & a pick from the Lakers before many times but they went w/Pau instead cuz obviously Zach wasn't cutting it for them... so what other teams are out there ready to throw picks at us to get back Zach's contract?

[Edited by - TMS on 02-09-2008 11:05 AM]

Of course we probably can't trade Zach by himself for those needs. We need to be a little creative. Honestly although it was proposed by a UK faithful poster I don't think in there's a chance in Hell Bird wants to do a J.O. for Zach when last yr he was asking for Bynum.

Here's an example and maybe they won't go for it but they could use a guy like Zach

Zach and Mardy to Orlando

for

Arroyo, Garrity(waive), Dooling, #1 pick

If they want Nate instead we need a #1pick(Top 15) and #2 conditional pick. See how in this trade I eliminate all of Zach's contract and obtain a pick or picks in the process? And we actually get a point guard who could probably run the team better than anybody we have right now in Arroyo. We send out $14.5mil in salary and take back $11.3mil generating a $3mil dollar exception to sign a FA with. Start David Lee and back him up with Rose of Jeffries until we drum up another trade.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 02-09-2008 1:31 PM]
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2/9/2008  2:47 PM
dude, i can propose all kinds of trades getting rid of Zach's contract but the thing about that is none of them are likely to appeal to the other teams... why does ORL want Zach's contract on their books & go into luxury tax territory the next 3 seasons for when they already have a team that can contend in the playoffs right now? i've seen u bash on just about everyone's trade proposals on these forums & yet you suggest trades like this that don't make sense for the other teams involved in the deals... i suppose this means you're going to "man up & apologize" to me when this deal doesn't go down, right?
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2/9/2008  2:47 PM
Why would You want a late(more like 18th overall pick) for zacky. thats more of a curry deal, zacky is woth more then that. And why do you want to get younger then we already are, you guys are killing me with this youth nonsense. Its the same reason we lose night in and night out, young ass players who have all the talant a but don't no how to play.

I don't know about the rest of you but having talanted young players is the most fustrating thing in basketball or in all of sports, unless you luck up like My Green Bay Packers.
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2/9/2008  2:52 PM
no one has said this - but, maybe Memphis traded Gasol to the best situation, where he wanted to go.

Maybe there were better deals, but maybe none of those were overwhelmingly better.

Take a bit less, send him somewhere he can prosper & they now have one agent that appreciates them.

Players ask all the time to get traded & often they ask to go specific cities, teams, etc.

Maybe there was an element of that.
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2/9/2008  3:00 PM
Posted by TMS:

dude, i can propose all kinds of trades getting rid of Zach's contract but the thing about that is none of them are likely to appeal to the other teams... why does ORL want Zach's contract on their books & go into luxury tax territory the next 3 seasons for when they already have a team that can contend in the playoffs right now? i've seen u bash on just about everyone's trade proposals on these forums & yet you suggest trades like this that don't make sense for the other teams involved in the deals... i suppose this means you're going to "man up & apologize" to me when this deal doesn't go down, right?

ROTFLOL! I said Orlando may not go for such a deal but was giving a scenario of what our approach should be. You won't see me in TMS fashion week after week suggesting the only logical destination for Zach is Orlando as to Kobe's only logical place is New York. Let's be real with Orlando though they are at a point where they're one piece away and usually teams who win it all(San Antonio exception) are at the tax or over it. It's $66mil right now and will likely increase next yr.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 02-09-2008 2:03 PM]
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2/9/2008  3:02 PM
Posted by franco12:

no one has said this - but, maybe Memphis traded Gasol to the best situation, where he wanted to go.

Maybe there were better deals, but maybe none of those were overwhelmingly better.

Take a bit less, send him somewhere he can prosper & they now have one agent that appreciates them.

Players ask all the time to get traded & often they ask to go specific cities, teams, etc.

Maybe there was an element of that.

i doubt that... from the quotes obtained from Pau he was surprised & shocked by this trade, so it definitely wasn't expected, at least not to the Lakers.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/feb/03/trade-stuns-gasol-its-pretty-shocking/
Trade stuns Gasol: 'It's pretty shocking'

By Ronald Tillery (Contact)
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Pau Gasol's basketball career flashed before his eyes like a documentary on the plane ride to Los Angeles late Friday night.

The journey nearly left him teary-eyed.

Gasol sounded sad.

He seemed dazed.

He actually was a bit confused. He never saw this coming. Gasol didn't think he'd be traded and had no inkling when Griz officials informed the 7-footer Friday that he needed to board a plane because he's a member of the Los Angeles Lakers.

"It's not easy to digest," Gasol said. "You leave something that you've been committed to for such a long time -- all of a sudden you're on a plane going to a different team. It's pretty shocking."

Absolutely stunned was Gasol to learn that the Griz shipped him and a 2010 second-round pick to the Los Angeles Lakers for forward/center Kwame Brown, rookie guard Javaris Crittenton, veteran guard Aaron McKie, the draft rights to Marc Gasol (Pau's brother), two first-round draft picks (2008 and 2010) and cash considerations.

"The best part of the deal is they got my brother's rights, to be honest," Gasol said. "I wish the franchise the best. The city deserves a really good team, and something to get those fans excited. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be a part of it."

doesn't seem like he wanted to leave to me.
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Let me first start of by saying that Popovich knows a hell of lot more about being a GM then anyone on this board. I also agree with his position about Memphis' GM. But I think what is lost on some people here who applaud this type of deal is that the whole reason for trading, drafting, signing free-agents etc is for the sole purpose of establishing a better team. I don't think anyone is disagreeing with Memphis for trading Gasol but rather you give him up for the hope that 2 or 3 years down the road after numerous draft picks and some luck with free-agents you might have a decent team.

There's no gurantees in sports you could draft a kid and he could look like a total stud potential rookie of the year and come into the league have a career ending injury or just suck. The Memphis franchise at this point might as well just pack it in for the rest of the season b/c they are pretty much waving the white flag and giving up which I think is disgusting. I can understand late in the season and your looking at a possible lottery pick sure but this early and to a rival conference team ridiculous. So unless they get incredibly lucky and they draft this rookie who can make them into a playoff team (which I highly doubt). They are looking at some long seasons ahead of them and if I'm a good young talent on this team like Rudy Gay I'm keeping my options very open when it comes free-agent time.

Rebuilding a franchise oh thats a rich one. Since when is an owner being cheap now being equated to thinking about the future? Memphis isn't rebuilding they're franchise they are just taking a very cheap and easy way out. It helps that they are in such a small market b/c they can pull of a shennigan such as this and the fans would probably be mostly apathetic. However before anyone heralds them of being so smart b/c they are thinking of their future and they always popular unloading of big contracts remember that at the end of the day their franchise is there to supposedly win games. The GM has just made a move that not only fails to make them better but possibly gurantees that they will be worse for a few more seasons.



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2/9/2008  3:08 PM
Posted by TrueBlue:
Posted by TMS:

dude, i can propose all kinds of trades getting rid of Zach's contract but the thing about that is none of them are likely to appeal to the other teams... why does ORL want Zach's contract on their books & go into luxury tax territory the next 3 seasons for when they already have a team that can contend in the playoffs right now? i've seen u bash on just about everyone's trade proposals on these forums & yet you suggest trades like this that don't make sense for the other teams involved in the deals... i suppose this means you're going to "man up & apologize" to me when this deal doesn't go down, right?

ROTFLOL! I said Orlando may not go for such a deal but was giving a scenario of what our approach should be. You won't see me in TMS fashion week after week suggesting the only logical destination for Zach is Orlando as to Kobe's only logical place is New York. Let's be real with Orlando though they are at a point where they're one piece away and usually teams who win it all(San Antonio exception) are at the tax or over it. It's $66mil right now and will likely increase next yr.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 02-09-2008 2:03 PM]

once again like the true idiot you are you misrepresent my comments... please show me where i said NY was the ONLY logical place for Kobe to land? i consistently gave CHI & NY as the 2 logical landing spots, even tho trade gurus like yourself said the Mavs or Suns had a better shot than we did... turns out none of us were right & Kobe stayed in LA, so for u to ask me for an apology is just you being the annoying troll that you enjoy being as usual.

gimme a break w/this "ORL's 1 piece away" garbage... since when is Zach Randolph the last missing piece to any championship run? if you wanna be condescending in every post you make & bash on others for their point of view then at least come up with some better points of your own.
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2/9/2008  3:19 PM
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Posted by TrueBlue:
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dude, i can propose all kinds of trades getting rid of Zach's contract but the thing about that is none of them are likely to appeal to the other teams... why does ORL want Zach's contract on their books & go into luxury tax territory the next 3 seasons for when they already have a team that can contend in the playoffs right now? i've seen u bash on just about everyone's trade proposals on these forums & yet you suggest trades like this that don't make sense for the other teams involved in the deals... i suppose this means you're going to "man up & apologize" to me when this deal doesn't go down, right?

ROTFLOL! I said Orlando may not go for such a deal but was giving a scenario of what our approach should be. You won't see me in TMS fashion week after week suggesting the only logical destination for Zach is Orlando as to Kobe's only logical place is New York. Let's be real with Orlando though they are at a point where they're one piece away and usually teams who win it all(San Antonio exception) are at the tax or over it. It's $66mil right now and will likely increase next yr.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 02-09-2008 2:03 PM]

once again like the true idiot you are you misrepresent my comments... please show me where i said NY was the ONLY logical place for Kobe to land? i consistently gave CHI & NY as the 2 logical landing spots, even tho trade gurus like yourself said the Mavs or Suns had a better shot than we did... turns out none of us were right & Kobe stayed in LA, so for u to ask me for an apology is just you being the annoying troll that you enjoy being as usual.

gimme a break w/this "ORL's 1 piece away" garbage... since when is Zach Randolph the last missing piece to any championship run? if you wanna be condescending in every post you make & bash on others for their point of view then at least come up with some better points of your own.


I said those teams had better chances than we did and I still feel that way but my main opinion on it from jump was Kobe had no leverage and the LAKERS SHOULD TELL KOBE TO STFU AND PLAY BALL which actually happened. So yes, I was right.

I don't think Zach is that piece per say. He may help them better than Lewis playing the 4 spot. I think they're a big man away and can't think of many out there who could fit the 4 spot besides maybe an O'neal/Odom who are probably attainable. Even they are stretches. Orlando needs a big next to Howard.
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2/9/2008  3:23 PM
Gm hit and miss all the time.

Kupchak missd with Kwame and Butler, but he didn't on this one.

Lakes got luckey but they had the cap room for Fisher and flex to shed contracts when they needed to. They are also very deep on the bench!

They never paniked the last 3 years when Shaq departed and waited it out. Even when Kobe started really bitching.

They stuck it out with Bynum and never starphuched him into Kidd when the heat was on!!!!!!!

Patience allows you to have pieces when luck comes your way.

and they have that HOF zen master on the sidelines. He also came back and was patient!!!!!!

I am very impressed with the lakers right now.

Phuch you Isiah! It can be done on the fly, your just not smart enough, patient enough, and garsh darn it, your not that likable either.

We could have given Memphis an expiring Francis (what comes around, goes around) and maybe frye for Pau, instead we got Z-Suck!
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2/9/2008  3:32 PM
Posted by bitty41:

Let me first start of by saying that Popovich knows a hell of lot more about being a GM then anyone on this board. I also agree with his position about Memphis' GM. But I think what is lost on some people here who applaud this type of deal is that the whole reason for trading, drafting, signing free-agents etc is for the sole purpose of establishing a better team. I don't think anyone is disagreeing with Memphis for trading Gasol but rather you give him up for the hope that 2 or 3 years down the road after numerous draft picks and some luck with free-agents you might have a decent team.

first of all, who here is pretending to be a better GM than Pop? did anyone challenge his knowledge of NBA talent? i don't believe so... but since u agree w/him, let's hear the better options for players u thought were realistically available now... i just gave u a pretty long list of contending teams that MEM had the chance to do a deal with... which players do u think they passed up on that would have offered them a better chance to contend with 2 or 3 years down the road?
There's no gurantees in sports you could draft a kid and he could look like a total stud potential rookie of the year and come into the league have a career ending injury or just suck. The Memphis franchise at this point might as well just pack it in for the rest of the season b/c they are pretty much waving the white flag and giving up which I think is disgusting.

of course there's no guarantees in sports... it works both ways... there's no guarantees the Lakers are gonna win any titles w/Pau on their roster... what IS guaranteed is their cap is pretty much fugged for the foreseeable future, so basically Kobe, Pau & Bynum better get it done in the next 2 years or else Kobe's likely to start making noise about opting out once again, u can bet on that... i guess what POR did last year was disgusting to you too... seems to me they're doing just fine... let's see if they'd take Zach back now for cap room & a young player... that ain't happening bitty.
I can understand late in the season and your looking at a possible lottery pick sure but this early and to a rival conference team ridiculous. So unless they get incredibly lucky and they draft this rookie who can make them into a playoff team (which I highly doubt). They are looking at some long seasons ahead of them and if I'm a good young talent on this team like Rudy Gay I'm keeping my options very open when it comes free-agent time.

u really think MEM, a team with a worse record than the NY Knicks, had any reason whatsoever to care about the ramifications on the current season a trade like this would have, on them or their so-called "conference rivals" who are about 20 games ahead of them in the standings?... they had zero shot to even sniff the playoffs this year & the fans were unhappy w/Gasol on the team from the news stories i've read, so why exactly are their fans angry over this one? they needed to rebuild that roster & the trade they made allows them the flexibility to do so, bottomline.
Rebuilding a franchise oh thats a rich one. Since when is an owner being cheap now being equated to thinking about the future? Memphis isn't rebuilding they're franchise they are just taking a very cheap and easy way out.

if money was the only concern they could have easily unloaded Pau to any team w/an expiring contract w/no concerns about picks or draft rights to any young international players... you're way off base on this one IMO.
It helps that they are in such a small market b/c they can pull of a shennigan such as this and the fans would probably be mostly apathetic.

i'm willing to bet you any amount of money that most fans on this board would be ecstatic over a similar move to unload Zach's contract for expirings & picks if it were even remotely possible... unfortunately we'll never get the chance since that ain't happening anytime soon.
However before anyone heralds them of being so smart b/c they are thinking of their future and they always popular unloading of big contracts remember that at the end of the day their franchise is there to supposedly win games.

13-36 this year w/Pau on their roster... obviously that wasn't working out too well for them this year... rebuilding w/youth & roster flexibility obviously made more sense to them.
The GM has just made a move that not only fails to make them better but possibly gurantees that they will be worse for a few more seasons.

Some of us focus so much on a grain of sand that we have lost sight of the beach.

that would probably be more apropo if you applied it to your own line of thinking... seems to me you have zero concern for longterm vision & only choose to focus on the immediate ramifications of any deal... how'd that work out for us over the past few years? 'nuff said.

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2/9/2008  3:33 PM
TMS, that was a great post you made before.
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2/9/2008  3:39 PM
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TMS, that was a great post you made before.

thanks bro... but which one?
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2/9/2008  3:48 PM
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TMS, that was a great post you made before.

thanks bro... but which one?

The long one.. I didn't want to quote it, it was too long haha.
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2/9/2008  3:50 PM
Posted by TrueBlue:

I don't think Zach is that piece per say. He may help them better than Lewis playing the 4 spot. I think they're a big man away and can't think of many out there who could fit the 4 spot besides maybe an O'neal/Odom who are probably attainable. Even they are stretches. Orlando needs a big next to Howard.

if there's 1 thing they DON'T need it's a ballhogging no defense playing PF who's gonna clog up the paint for Dwight Howard... they'd be much better off targeting a defensive role player like an Andres Nocioni or someone of that ilk that doesn't carry w/them a bloated contract & has the flexibility to knock down an open shot or play a physical style as well if need be while also defending down on the other end of the floor & moving relatively well on the break... they have zero need for someone like Zach Randolph when they already have 1 of the most bloated contracts in the game in Rashard Lewis rotting on their cap for the next 29 seasons.
After 7 years & 40K+ posts, banned by martin for calling Nalod a 'moron'. Awesome.
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2/9/2008  4:07 PM
People, people, people... the Grizz are one of the least profitable teams in the league. They rank 23rd in franchise value with negative revenue.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/32/biz_07nba_NBA-Team-Valuations_Rank.html

The skinny
The Grizzlies move to Memphis from Vancouver in 2001 dramatically boasted the value of the franchise, but fans have been slow to embrace the Grizzlies in the NBA's second smallest market. Attendance fell to last in the league last year as the team posted 60 losses and only 22 wins after three straight playoff appearances. Owner Michael Heisley has been trying to unload the team and thought he had a deal in place with former Duke hoops stars Brian Davis and Christian Laettner for $360 million last year. But Davis' group could not line up the financing for the deal. Heisley's search for new ownership continues.

Clearly this deal was made to lower payroll expenditures in order to make the team more appealing to buyers.
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