Bonn1997 wrote:

martin wrote:

Knixkik wrote:In general Billups and one more asset for Nash is a good deal for us, but i wouldn't want to do a huge trade like this. Plus i believe Nash will come as a FA.

why? A 1 year rental for Nash by giving up an asset is a good thing? To what end?

It's not worth giving up an asset to get a hall-of-fame PG? We get him for a year and spend that year trying to convince him to stay. We'd be willing to offer him a longer, bigger contract than other teams and he'd make a lot of endorsement money. He comes out of it with dozens of millions more here than his next best option. I still prefer doing everything we can to get Paul and Okafor first though. We also need to give it time and see how this team does first. If the team this year looks like it did post-trade last year, then I'd be strongly in favor of getting Nash.

if Nash was 30 I would agree. Dude is nearly 38. and doesn't play defense.

martin wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

martin wrote:

Knixkik wrote:In general Billups and one more asset for Nash is a good deal for us, but i wouldn't want to do a huge trade like this. Plus i believe Nash will come as a FA.

why? A 1 year rental for Nash by giving up an asset is a good thing? To what end?

It's not worth giving up an asset to get a hall-of-fame PG? We get him for a year and spend that year trying to convince him to stay. We'd be willing to offer him a longer, bigger contract than other teams and he'd make a lot of endorsement money. He comes out of it with dozens of millions more here than his next best option. I still prefer doing everything we can to get Paul and Okafor first though. We also need to give it time and see how this team does first. If the team this year looks like it did post-trade last year, then I'd be strongly in favor of getting Nash.

if Nash was 30 I would agree. Dude is nearly 38. and doesn't play defense.

I'm sorry, I think Nash is the better PG for MDA (with all do respect to billups) I just don't see him running that offense with consistancy, he's a veteren player that has never ever played this way.

We all knew Felton was going to excel in this system, cause he was essential held back in charlotte. But billups said it himself, he had never experience anything like it. When billups got here, it became a post up/iso for melo on one side, and the same for Amare on the other. It's not like billups even had anything special with Melo in denver..

That trade could be tweak some, but make no mistake, nash would be the oldest all star in the history of the NBA if he came to NY for 3 more seasons under MIKE.

Markji wrote:There is no reason for Phoenix to trade Nash for Billups. Nash is better, and sells lots of tickets. We would have to include some young players or draft picks. But we traded away all of our draft picks for Melo and to dump Jeffries contract. So we don't have much to offer Phoenix other than Douglas or Fields.

I would make the trade :
Nash for Billups + Fields + 2nd round draft pick. But Phoenix wouldn't do this.

Besides, Nash a one year player? That cap space we will have next year needs to be spent wisely.

Markji wrote:News is that we are close to signing Grant Hill.If that is the case then a deal for Nash would be possible if we gave up Fields who is replaced by Grant Hill in the lineup. Not that big deal proposed at the beginning of the thread, but just Nash for Billups + Fields + Jordan + $3 mil.

Hell no. lol. How about JUST Billups for Nash. We cannot afford, in any circumstance, to give up our young guys for possible one year rentals.