CP3

14.9

Curry
Gallo
Toney Douglas

15.6 (works)

this is the best trade for NO.. they get a solid backup in Douglas.. a potential star in Gallo and relief in Curry.

I could see this happening

Lineup:

A. Randolph
Amare
Wilson (melo eventually?)
Buki
CP3

6 mil for gallo douglas and walker..
7 mil for Felton
17 mil for Amare
16 fir CP3
13 for Okafor

do the math thats
59 mil already... puts us at the cap... not to mention our 2nd round picks. No room for Mello.

Melo is around 17 mil so we still could not afford to even trade all our leftovers for him... not happening.

I say our best option is to hang on to Randolph at Center.. give up Gallo, but leave Okafor out of the deal... that way we can posisbly EVENTUALLY be looking at:

Randolph
Amare
Melo
Anyone
CP3

IMO, there's only two possible trades for Paul:

Option 1 - NO OKAFOR (trade the farm -- BRIGGS would hate this)

NY trades: Gallinari, Randolph, Chandler, Turiaf, Walker, 2014 1st round pick, and $3M cash considerations
NOH trades: Chris Paul

- NOH loads up with cheap young talent, but doesn't get any salary relief.
- NY gives up the farm, but by doing this trade, they are one Felton trade away from signing Melo in 2011 (Felton for TJ Ford perhaps?). And you have to wonder, if NY has Paul and Amare on board, wouldn't Melo hold off on signing his extension? This trade would be a gamble, but it's really the only way to open up the possibility of having Paul, Melo, and Amare all on the same team. We wouldn't have much depth besides Douglas, Fields, Mozgov and whoever else we can sign, but that big three would rival Miami's big three, and easily place us as title contenders.

Option 2 - OKAFOR (forget Melo, roll with Gallo)

NY trades: Randolph, Chandler, Turiaf, Azubuike, Curry, 2014 1st round pick, and $3M cash considerations
NOH trades: Paul, Okafor

Same as the other trade, but we take our best player off the table in exchange for taking on Okafor's behemoth contract. This pretty much kills any chance of getting Melo, but a Paul/Gallo/Amare core still has the potential to grow into contenders. Okafor would round out the rest of our starting lineup, and we would look to trade Felton for an SG (instead of just an expiring).

IMO, there is no scenario whatsoever that has us keeping both Gallo and Randolph. One of them is going to have to go in any Paul trade. There is no way NOH accepts a package from us in which the best player we give up is Wilson Chandler.

TMS wrote:

loweyecue wrote:We can trade Felton by himself to another team to acquire a different asset for the Paul trade if NO is amenable to that.

how can you do that? won't the player you acquire also be untradeable as part of a package deal?

what if its a draft pick?

kam77 wrote:seriously guys, y'all are acting like their won't be other bidders for his services. LA can give em Bynum. ORL has a boatload of assets. We can't lowball them with weak options. We definitely have to give to get.

seems like some guys are going back to the stuff we heard all throughout the summer... how we'd be able to pilfer CP3 from the Hornets, their superstar franchise stud, for expiring contracts, Wilson Chandler & Toney Douglas... that's not even close to a realistic scenario... NO can trade him anywhere they want to, they're not handcuffed into trading him to the Knicks but guys are acting like they have no other choice in the matter.

Bonn1997 wrote:

knickstorrents wrote:We need to pull a Gasol style type of trade, we have leverage. I trust Donnie to be patient.

Agreed; either do that or forget about Paul. The Lakers knew they needed a great big man but they were unwilling to mortgage their future for it. Their philosophy was "either we'll rob MEM for Gasol, or we'll save and develop what we have." We need the same mindset.

Randolph, Chandler, Bukke, Turiaf for Paul. If they want throw in $3 mil. Take it or leave it.

I am perfectly comfortable with Felton.

joec32033 wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:

knickstorrents wrote:We need to pull a Gasol style type of trade, we have leverage. I trust Donnie to be patient.

Agreed; either do that or forget about Paul. The Lakers knew they needed a great big man but they were unwilling to mortgage their future for it. Their philosophy was "either we'll rob MEM for Gasol, or we'll save and develop what we have." We need the same mindset.

Randolph, Chandler, Bukke, Turiaf for Paul. If they want throw in $3 mil. Take it or leave it.

I am perfectly comfortable with Felton.

= 23mm

for

Ok4 10mm
CP3 14mm

= 24mm

leaves you with:

C: Ok4, Moz, Jordan
PF: Amare, maybe Anthony Tolliver
SF: Gallo, Fields
SG: Buike, Chandler, Walker
PG: CP3, Douglas