Archie Moses
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Vinylone still desperately tries to get with his cousins.
Vinylone still desperately tries to get with his cousins.
Darkwing is right about a true S&T not being legal because Boozer couldn't legally negotiate with New Jersey until July 1. This is why you can discount just about any proposed draft pick trade that involves a S&T.Boozer would have had to accept such an arrangement, which would have been illegal under the CBA. Or the Jazz could have stupid enough to offer something they didn't have, which is obviously not the case.
Archie makes me a Gordon Hayward signature that says G-Time on it somewhere.
Chad Ford was saying that they wanted to unload some hefty contracts (Harris, Yi) on us and economically we just couldn't make it work.
I'll bet they tried to send us Tony Battie... They do have some dead weight on that roster!
https://espn.go.com/nba/teams/roster?team=njn
Chad Ford also said the Jazz were being very "creative" in their attempts. Not sure what all that entails, but I would guss it involved trading anyone not named "Deron" and "Paul" and probably a future pick.
It's really a tough trade for the Jazz to make because they are trying to bridge the gap between #3 and #9, but the more value they give, the more NJ has to take back from a salary perspective.
For example, Millsap for Keyon Dooling and Kris Humphries works, but is Millsap enough that NJ would give up 6 spots in the draft? Probably not. So try AK, but then NJ has no choice but to send Devin Harris along with Dooling and Humphries. Let's just say they think AK is valuable enough to make up for dropping 6 spots, but then they also gave up Harris and they want to be compensated for him as well.
I just don't see a trade that makes sense there, no matter how hard the Jazz and Nets try. Maybe if the Nets had more dead weight on their roster it could have worked out.