Many people were against the idea of including Lampe and Frank Williams (who at the time was averaging about 14 PPG as a starter) in the Marbury trade. I'm NOT looking to trade Ariza or Sweetney but if including them in a package will allow us to get a BETTER young player, I'd do it. No one on this team (including Marbury, BTW) is untradeable if the right offer is on the table.
Eaxctly my point...
let me add to that, the bulls drafted Scottie Pippen Horace Grant,MJ, Toni Kukoc and most of their role players and NONE of them were number 1 picks.
Mike waited how long to get a ring.....
Wake up and look around the league.. how many franchise players are there, and how many were drafted by there current team. You go to be silly to think any Gm is going to sit throught 5 years of losing to get that franchis player to be good enough to take his team to a championship.
Suns, Miami, seattle, Sa. There young but the core guy's have been in the league, Shaq, ray allan, nash, rashard, marion, eddie jones, tim duncun, just to name a few. Aside from Miami, and SA, the rest of those teams are playoff contenders.
The suns, heat and seattle have been good this year due to the player they have aquried. Wade and amare came out of the gate as starters/ impact players.
Sweetny Is nice but if i can get Paul gasol, marion, rashard lewis, type of player, why wouldn't I.
Had dice been healthy I would do that trade for camby in a minute.