Proposed 3-way w/TOR & PHI

[Med_Phys]

for the record, i have long liked the idea of calderon for the jazz. he's an efficient, pass-first, involve-everybody guard that would be a perfect second-unit facilitator, and i'd even be fine with him starting if getting him meant losing harris.

but this trade just won't get it done. you just can't build trades without looking at each team's perspective.

1) jazz: give up paul, raja, earl, harris and a 2014 1st to get a #8 this year, a 2013 toronto first, calderon and elton brand

raja is gone either way and earl is pretty replacable. so you basically turn millsap into brand (much costlier, less effective and more injury prone); you turn harris into calderon (probably a downgrade if you look at it in a vacuum, but like i said, i think i'd be ok with this); and you turn our 2013 1st into two picks that are probably going to be much better.

2) sixers: give up iggy, the #15 this year, and brand in exchange for millsap, kleiza, and two jazz cast-offs (earl and raja)

just no way. this is where the deal dies and philly's front office laughs so hard they have to go take a nap after they hang up the phone. kleiza is a one-faceted bench player, and raja and earl are replacement-level players. so they're basically trading away two of their best four players and a draft pick in exchange for paul millap.

3) toronto: gives up kleiza, calderon, and their picks in the next two drafts in exchange for harris, iggy, philly's pick this year and utah's pick two years from now

first of all, this violates the ted steppien rule as toronto would be trading future picks in consecutive years. so right there you'd have to do some tweaking. if you took care of that, you're still asking toronto to sacrifice two of their picks for two of utah's/philly's picks, which are probably going to be less valuable. so for them to be interested, they'd have to really love iggy and/or feel like harris was a measurable upgrade over calderon.

Thoughts: Jazz don't give up a pick until 2014; do this trade after TOR takes a player at 8 for the Jazz (side-step the Steppien rule); PHI can keep their pick this year. They are giving up the best player, but they are also getting more cap flexibility this year and into the future for their young players, here is the value to PHI. I still don't see why this would be so bad for PHI. TOR is getting the best player, gets rid of a bad contract, a PG that should fit in and expires at the end of the year anyways and gets a future 1st. I don't think this trade is the unfair to all involved.

 

[theNBAnerd]

philadelphia is going to want more for iguodala, who is just coming off his first all-star game and who is an elite defender at the core of the sixers' deep playoff run. he has been rumored in trades involving the #2 overall pick, so they're not going to give him away for 50 cents on the dollar.

they're giving up way too much and getting too little in return. linas kleiza? earl watson? raja bell? that's not a trade haul, those are just throw-ins. they'd basically be trading two members of their starting five and a draft pick for paul millsap. there's no way they'd even consider it.

 

[Lion's Roar]

Brand can't be traded cause there was some kind of option for the last year of his contract. In that scenario he can only be traded after July 1st.