Minnesota is a team that is high tail going for it. KT is a guy who playing with KG Sprewell and Cassell could put them over the top.

What I would want

Earvin Johnson--5mm ending contract
Ndudi Ebi--the 6-10 SF I was high enough on to be a top 3 choice for our 2003 9th pick

and a Minnesota 2005#1 pick [likely to be 23-30]

then we would have a first round draft pick to trade with enough ending contracts for a max contract -- even if it is in it's last year--the team gets the pick as the benefit IF we could find the right deal.

for a team that hasn't had a first round pick in almost decades, you expect them to give up their first one? i don't think they'll do it.

i see what you're trying to do and that's build for the future by giving kurt up now and i'm not opposed to that concept, but i don't think this one will fly.

I fully endorse this trade as well. I want KT out of Sweetney's way in the worst way. And I want Isiah to be able to deal the three ending contracts together. So with Erving Johnson's $$$ we can indeed get a max-salary player from a salary dumping team. Heaven knows this is the season that a lot of Superstars have been demanding trades.

The NBA really is a Player's league. Last year they got all their coaches fired. This year, we'll see GM's start getting kicked to the curb. On top of this, we may be headed for another lockout.

So the question remains, what can we get? Toronto's in a bad way with VC. Paul Pierce and Danny had that comment a few weeks ago. AI? Ray Allen? Shareef? Antoine? Cwebb? who is it gonna be? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, will Isiah really just let whomever it is slide off the cap? If he did, he'd still be over the cap but with fewer assets.

This is a good trade if you've got your eye on 2006 and 2007. Does MSG?

Do you think if Isiah really deals for a max-player with an ending deal that he will just let it end? Not when we're still over the cap.

This is still the team that is run by Allan Houston's contract. We seem stuck with it and Isiah seems to espouse the philosophy where if you're stuck with AH, you might as well try and win with him here. "Patchwork", in other words.

I don't see the philosophy you hold, to be the same as the MSG philosophy, so although your trade could happen, it would happen for different reasons.

No sense dropping real salary off the cap YET. Marbury and AH make more than 75% of the cap between the two of them, and we have three more years of that ratio. Drop salary next year, and some more as you get closer to AHs ending season, so you can time AH coming off the cap with having significant cap room.

Dumping salary for Caproom on July5th 2004 is NOT the philosophy of MSG.

[Edited by - kam77 on 07/05/2004 02:49:07]

Rightly or wrongly, it seems Isiah believes he can get a significant piece back for KT. Why else would he have given him the contract extension?

you don't need a player-player match in skills to have a very good move. I mean if you think about it, adding KT to the Timberwolves for earvin johnson[who was really nothing to sthem averaging less than 2 points] a player who didnt get off the bench and what would likely be a late pick in the first round. They are a win it today team with a legit chance--this is the type of move the knicks used to do to get the rolando blackmons the derek harpers etc.. and its a good move for the vet club with the chance to win it all. i would do it in a hearbeat if it was the other way around. the odds of them getting a player the caliber of KT is very low. I went and looked at every team and this represented what I thought would be the best deal that took on no money. There are other deals out there i.e mckie+ draft pick stackhouse etc.. but this had the smallest monetary cost with a nice potnetial upside where we could do multiple things.

Question, how does Ebi compare with Trevor Ariza? THey are around the same size and the same age, with similarly impressive HS careers.

As much as the Wolves might want to move Wally, they still need his shooting and trading him for Anderson wouldn't get them any closer to winnning. One player they could really use is Frank Williams, as they were exposed without a backup PG and they will likely lose Hudson.