BigDaddyG wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

TripleThreat wrote:

TLover wrote:How about Houston? Lee & Noah for Ryan Anderson, Nene & 2nd rounder would work.
Anderson can at least be useful this season to help out until KP is back then stretched after the season. Nene makes about 5 mil this season & next which is pocket change in this league. He can be a mentor to Mitchell Robertson like he was for a Capela. Additionally we can finally come full circle on that franchise altering McDyess trade.

Lee and Baker for Ryan Anderson might work. There would need to be other small moving parts, but it would be contingent on what came back with Anderson. Houston could use the defense on the wings. Technically the 4th year of Lee would operate as cap relief.

They do like DeAnthony Melton quite a bit. He's a really nice prospect, I was hoping the Knicks would take him. Taking in Lee and Baker would shade his minutes, but maybe that's not a horrible thing.

If Houston wanted Noah, they'd just wait for him to be stretched. No one is trading for him now. Not that anyone would before, but right now, there would be no point for a non Knicks team. Someone will get him for the vets minimum.

Phoenix would send an asset plus Brandon Knight's contract to dump for Lee. The Suns appear to have pretty much given up on Bender and Chriss. There might be something there.

I don't mind the idea of Lee/Baker for Anderson because I'm not a fan of going for broke in 2019 free agency and would prefer we stay the course (potentially suck) for another year rather than throw a giant contract at a Kyrie.

That said if we were taking on an extra $8M in Anderson salary and killing our 2019 cap in the process - the cost for me would be Melton and at least a 1st rounder.

I like Melton quite a bit.

Not crazy on the idea of having Anderson and Noah on the books with stretched deals.

Only way I take Anderson is if he’s exchanged for Noah.

BigDaddyG wrote:

LivingLegend wrote:

TripleThreat wrote:

TLover wrote:How about Houston? Lee & Noah for Ryan Anderson, Nene & 2nd rounder would work.
Anderson can at least be useful this season to help out until KP is back then stretched after the season. Nene makes about 5 mil this season & next which is pocket change in this league. He can be a mentor to Mitchell Robertson like he was for a Capela. Additionally we can finally come full circle on that franchise altering McDyess trade.

Lee and Baker for Ryan Anderson might work. There would need to be other small moving parts, but it would be contingent on what came back with Anderson. Houston could use the defense on the wings. Technically the 4th year of Lee would operate as cap relief.

They do like DeAnthony Melton quite a bit. He's a really nice prospect, I was hoping the Knicks would take him. Taking in Lee and Baker would shade his minutes, but maybe that's not a horrible thing.

If Houston wanted Noah, they'd just wait for him to be stretched. No one is trading for him now. Not that anyone would before, but right now, there would be no point for a non Knicks team. Someone will get him for the vets minimum.

Phoenix would send an asset plus Brandon Knight's contract to dump for Lee. The Suns appear to have pretty much given up on Bender and Chriss. There might be something there.

I don't mind the idea of Lee/Baker for Anderson because I'm not a fan of going for broke in 2019 free agency and would prefer we stay the course (potentially suck) for another year rather than throw a giant contract at a Kyrie.

That said if we were taking on an extra $8M in Anderson salary and killing our 2019 cap in the process - the cost for me would be Melton and at least a 1st rounder.

I like Melton quite a bit.

Not crazy on the idea of having Anderson and Noah on the books with stretched deals.

Well...if we decided to go Anderson route that would negate the need for stretching Noah because we hold on to both thru next year and I believe both would expire together after 2019 season but May be wrong.

TLover wrote:

meloshouldgo wrote:Are we there yet?

Trading Lee might have to coincide with us waiving Noah. Have a feeling we are getting 3 players back for Lee. Trading Lee & waiving Noah would give us the maximum amount of players (20 assuming we get 3 players back for Lee) to go into training camp.

I think we could still do a deal now if there was one- don't you just have to have roster down to x number of players by training camp/pre season? I was once like you, hoping agau=inst reason that we had a Lee deal lined up, but now I really don't think we do. Playoff teams-wise the only possibility is really Pelicans (maybe OKC, but they would have big tax implications). Maybe Sixers for Bayless and filler. What non-playoff team would be interested? Maybe you could swing a deal of Lee to the Magic for Vucevic (same annual salary, but is an expiring, Magic want to move him to clear the front court for their young guys, have very little in the backcourt and could do with some vet leadership). There are other teams where he'd make a lot of sense, but none of them have the salary match up we need.