What Dallas loses: They lose G offense off the bench. I think the bigs in the Western conference (especially Lakers) are more important to have. Howard hasn't played much over the past few years anyway.

Why Knicks do it: Love Lee but love no Curry/Jefferies even more. Can sign 2 max guys and have room to spare. Carrol can be another guy to spread the O. Keep and/or trade Howard again.

Key to trade: Lee. Cuban has got to convince Lee that he will take care of him BIG time so that he does not nix trade. Lee loves NY but he would instantly get a playoff team and a 1st class organization to play with.

Trade works on one Trade Machine: http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yzyo4fv

Thoughts?

nyk4ever wrote:Martin, how much room to spare would that leave us? Enough to sign a guy like Ray Felton (you would figure 6-7mill a year)

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Chandler	2.1
Hill		2.7
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Bender		0.5
Bosh		15
Landry		0.5
Carrol		4.3
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Dirk plays PF and David Lee isnt a center in the West. Any combination of Dirk/Lee/Curry/Jefferies in the front court is a JOKE.

I think Howard is going to get swapped with Corey Maggette. Corey Maggette and Biedrens for Howard and Dampier. Dallas takes on salary but gets upgrades at SF and C and gets 2 guys who can run with Kidd.

AnubisADL wrote:

Dirk plays PF and David Lee isnt a center in the West. Any combination of Dirk/Lee/Curry/Jefferies in the front court is a JOKE.

did you even bother to read what I wrote?

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Dirk plays PF and David Lee isnt a center in the West. Any combination of Dirk/Lee/Curry/Jefferies in the front court is a JOKE.

did you even bother to read what I wrote?

Yea I did. You tried to play Dirk at SF where he would get eaten alive. The deal isn't good anyway you slice it. Dallas doesnt need David Lee since they have Dirk Nowitski. They need a SG/SF and a C. I think they could use Harrington though.

Teams that could use David Lee are OKC, Orlando, Miami, Chicago, Golden State, Cleveland, New Jersey, or Utah because they either have holes at PF or potential holes this summer.

nyk4ever wrote:Although... at this point I'm wondering. Say we sign LeBron, keep Lee (5yr/60mm) and then add a guy like Felton, that almost might be better.

without getting rid of Jefferies and Nate, no way you can sign LeBron, Lee and someone else.

nyk4ever wrote:

martin wrote:

nyk4ever wrote:Although... at this point I'm wondering. Say we sign LeBron, keep Lee (5yr/60mm) and then add a guy like Felton, that almost might be better.

without getting rid of Jefferies and Nate, no way you can sign LeBron, Lee and someone else.

Well, I know we have to get rid of Jeffries in order to do that. I was just saying I'm not sure if I want to make this trade to get rid of Lee so we can sign someone like Bosh.

You would rather have Bosh over Lee? I like the homegrown thing and love Lee, but Bosh much better. And having room for 2 max guys is more incentive for the likes of LeBron.

AnubisADL wrote:

martin wrote:

AnubisADL wrote:

Dirk plays PF and David Lee isnt a center in the West. Any combination of Dirk/Lee/Curry/Jefferies in the front court is a JOKE.

did you even bother to read what I wrote?

Yea I did. You tried to play Dirk at SF where he would get eaten alive. The deal isn't good anyway you slice it. Dallas doesnt need David Lee since they have Dirk Nowitski. They need a SG/SF and a C. I think they could use Harrington though.

Teams that could use David Lee are OKC, Orlando, Miami, Chicago, Golden State, Cleveland, New Jersey, or Utah because they either have holes at PF or potential holes this summer.

I suggested several different lineups and one of them was a big with Dirk at SF. Most likely Dallas would go with their current lineup of Dampier, Dirk, Marion, Terry, Kidd and have Lee/Jefferies off bench. Howard has missed a TON of games this year and last. Lee is a huge upgrade over Gooden and Jefferies adds to the defense.

martin wrote:

djsunyc wrote:how would dallas be able to re-sign lee for any more than the MLE? they'd be over the cap and he would lose his bird's rights.

For some reason I thought he could be resigned for 1.5 times his salary, perhaps it's 1.3. If not than this whole thing is caca.

120% plus 8% raises. So, they should be able to give him 10.5 with 8% raises next year.

NON-BIRD EXCEPTION -- This is also a component of the Veteran Free Agent exception. Players who qualify for this exception are called "Non-Qualifying Veteran Free Agents" in the CBA. They are veteran free agents who are neither Qualifying Veteran Free Agents nor Early Qualifying Veteran Free Agents, either because they haven't met the criteria, or because they are Early Bird free agents following the second season of their rookie scale contract and whose team renounced the Early-Bird exception. This exception allows a team to re-sign its own free agent to a salary starting at 120% of the player's salary in the previous season, 120% of the minimum salary, or the amount needed to tender a qualifying offer (if the player is a restricted free agent -- see question number 36), whichever is greater. Raises are limited to 8% of the salary in the first year of the contract, and contracts are limited to five seasons when this exception is used.