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Is Nene available?

cmkuhre said:
Bynum is not that young? Bynum is 23. He is 3 days younger than Jeremy Evans.
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It's not all about age. He's 23, sure, but he's been in the league 5 years or so and we're still talking about his upside. He's also had, what, three or four MAJOR knee injuries already? And his psyche is as frail as his knees are. He's a good player with great 'upside' on paper, but he's not even fool's gold. Denver would be retarded to do this.
 
Bynum has the chance to become the most elite Center in the game, I don't think that this is a horrible move for Denver. Plus, I think this increases our chances to beat LA by a lot.
 
David Stern said:
Bynum has the chance to become the most elite Center in the game, I don't think that this is a horrible move for Denver. Plus, I think this increases our chances to beat LA by a lot.
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Nene is good enough that I'd trade Millsap for him. Your trade proposal made no sense to me. For one thing, both Bynum and Nene are injury prone. Denver doesn't need to clear Nene out to make room for Bynum. I think they'd go with both, at least for the year. For another, there's not a whole lot in it for Portland, and Denver doesn't have to include Utah to make the Bynum-for-Crymelo trade work. You're proposing they do it to dump future salary, but that's at a huge cost this year.
 
franklin said:
Nene is good enough that I'd trade Millsap for him. Your trade proposal made no sense to me. For one thing, both Bynum and Nene are injury prone. Denver doesn't need to clear Nene out to make room for Bynum. I think they'd go with both, at least for the year. For another, there's not a whole lot in it for Portland, and Denver doesn't have to include Utah to make the Bynum-for-Crymelo trade work. You're proposing they do it to dump future salary, but that's at a huge cost this year.
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This thread isn't meant to be about my trade proposal, its meant to be about possibly acquiring Nene. The only reason why I think Denver would want to trade him is to dump future salary like you said. It specifically mentions in the articles about trading for Melo that they want to dump as much future salary as possible, and this trade definitely does that.
 
The same report came out in the NJ talks. They were already adding Billups, but wanted to squeeze Harrington in as well. They don't have a whole lot on the books next season as it is (K-Mart and JR Smith come off, and a $14mm team option on Billups), so they might be flexible in who to let go at this point. I have them at 33.1 committed next season after your trade, and pretty much nothing the following year. That would give them a lot of firepower in FA, but they need something to entice the stars. That's why they're after draft picks. I think they either need to get picks or need at least a skeleton core to start with.

This makes more sense to me even though there are some pieces missing (i.e. I hate Artest to Utah): https://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=6x983c2
 
I would love for LA to give up Bynum and Artest for Melo. That way he and Kobe can fight over the ball.

It would screw over the Nuggets too, as Bynum makes Kirilenko and Boozer look like Karl Malone.
 
franklin said:
The same report came out in the NJ talks. They were already adding Billups, but wanted to squeeze Harrington in as well. They don't have a whole lot on the books next season as it is (K-Mart and JR Smith come off, and a $14mm team option on Billups), so they might be flexible in who to let go at this point. I have them at 33.1 committed next season after your trade, and pretty much nothing the following year. That would give them a lot of firepower in FA, but they need something to entice the stars. That's why they're after draft picks. I think they either need to get picks or need at least a skeleton core to start with.

This makes more sense to me even though there are some pieces missing (i.e. I hate Artest to Utah): https://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=6x983c2
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That's probably the most realistic of the trades posted in this thread so far, but I don't like it. Artest has a bad contract and Millsap has a good one.
 
franklin said:
Nene is good enough that I'd trade Millsap for him. Your trade proposal made no sense to me. For one thing, both Bynum and Nene are injury prone. Denver doesn't need to clear Nene out to make room for Bynum. I think they'd go with both, at least for the year. For another, there's not a whole lot in it for Portland, and Denver doesn't have to include Utah to make the Bynum-for-Crymelo trade work. You're proposing they do it to dump future salary, but that's at a huge cost this year.
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Nene's injury prone if you consider cancer an injury.
 
I've mentioned Nene as a Jazzman before, and still like him. I doubt Denver has renewed interest in AK; I understand they backed out of the ESPN-mentioned 4-team trade earlier largely because they decided against taking on AK's contract...
 
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