nyknickzingis wrote:I don't think there is a single Clipper asset Phil would trade KP for..
If Jackson could trade Zinger for Blake Griffin and his KIA, then he'd do it in a heartbeat.
But the Knicks cannot trade for Griffin as long as Rose's cap hold stays on the roster. When Rose signed that mega deal with the Bulls, he was signed with the designated accelerator in the contract. So was Griffin, by way of the CBA, you can't have two of those kind of players on your roster the same time. The Rose situation would need to be settled before any discussion of a Griffin trade would start. And the Clippers would never make that deal.
Redick is a different story. Redick operationally raises a massive luxury tax question for Steve Ballmer. He did not spend 2 billion to avoid the luxury tax, but Redick going all the way into his age 38 year on a contract that sinks that team, is a massive competitive and financial double hit.
Clippers are stuck. They are past their functional window of opportunity and now all they can do is let that roster die real slow and sign Griffin and Paul to mega money because there aren't really any other options.
Mark Cuban came as close as any of the other owners to basically saying Donald Sterling got railroaded. He might be a jerk, a racist, a thief or anything else you can call him, but the NBA saw a chance to raise the valuation of all franchises with a record sale price and jobbed him of his franchise. (Where was the outrage for the last 20 years before that?) Ballmer is getting a soon to be broken team, that's what he gets. Karma.