Unibrow will replace him. Good for Davis!

Nelson/Lamb (?)
Martin/Reddick/Wafer
Parsons/Richardson
Patterson/White/Jones
Ayon/uhmmmm

Hilarious.

Brian Cronin:
By the way, I find Houston’s efforts to get Dwight Howard absolutely fascinating. They are now in a position where they basically have to hope that Chicago does not match Asik, as they’d like to have his salary so that they can take back a fourth Magic bad contract.

Their plan is to basically say to Orlando, “We’ll take Glen Davis, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon and Hedu off of your hands if you give us Dwight.” They would then trade their three drafted players from this draft, the two second rounders they got from the Knicks, a future first I’m sure, the future first they got from Toronto (which is a brilliantly enticing pick as it is almost guaranteed lottery pick), plus Kevin Martin, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and Chandler Parsons. On top of the already amnestied Scola. Plus they’d have to cut Shaun Livingston, Courtney Fortson, Josh Harrellson, Jerome Jordan, Jon Leuer, Diamon Simpson and Greg Smith to make cap room (all of them have unguaranteed contracts).

So the Rockets’ roster would be…what, exactly? As far as I can figure, it’d be:

Toney Douglas/Chris Duhon/Marchado?
Jason Richardson/Gary Forbes
Hedu
Big Baby/Donatas Motiejunas
Dwight Howard

Talk about a team that would instantly be in the market for vet minimum guys! I suppose they’d then have the mini-MLE to spend, right?

I just don’t see how that team, even if they get all of the best vet minimum guys, would be able to compete well enough to convince Howard to stay. So weird.

Basically, Houston would be last year’s Magic without their second and third best players (Anderson & Nelson) playing in a tougher conference and with a worse coach. And you’re giving up cap flexibility, draft picks, AND using your amnesty to do it? And Howard is coming off of back surgery and has already said he’s not going to resign anyway? This has to be ownership, not Morey. It’s just crazy.

If this happens, can we re-acquire Jorts and JJ2? Or are we not allowed to do that for a certain amount of time because we traded them and they were waived by the acquiring team?

The latter, I’m afraid. Which is too bad.

Brian Cronin:
By the way, I find Houston’s efforts to get Dwight Howard absolutely fascinating. They are now in a position where they basically have to hope that Chicago does not match Asik, as they’d like to have his salary so that they can take back a fourth Magic bad contract.

Their plan is to basically say to Orlando, “We’ll take Glen Davis, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon and Hedu off of your hands if you give us Dwight.” They would then trade their three drafted players from this draft, the two second rounders they got from the Knicks, a future first I’m sure, the future first they got from Toronto (which is a brilliantly enticing pick as it is almost guaranteed lottery pick), plus Kevin Martin, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and Chandler Parsons. On top of the already amnestied Scola. Plus they’d have to cut Shaun Livingston, Courtney Fortson, Josh Harrellson, Jerome Jordan, Jon Leuer, Diamon Simpson and Greg Smith to make cap room (all of them have unguaranteed contracts).

So the Rockets’ roster would be…what, exactly? As far as I can figure, it’d be:

Toney Douglas/Chris Duhon/Marchado?
Jason Richardson/Gary Forbes
Hedu
Big Baby/Donatas Motiejunas
Dwight Howard

Talk about a team that would instantly be in the market for vet minimum guys! I suppose they’d then have the mini-MLE to spend, right?

I just don’t see how that team, even if they get all of the best vet minimum guys, would be able to compete well enough to convince Howard to stay. So weird.

If this happens, can we re-acquire Jorts and JJ2? Or are we not allowed to do that for a certain amount of time because we traded them and they were waived by the acquiring team?

Their plan is to basically say to Orlando, “We’ll take Glen Davis, Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon and Hedu off of your hands if you give us Dwight.” They would then trade their three drafted players from this draft, the two second rounders they got from the Knicks, a future first I’m sure, the future first they got from Toronto (which is a brilliantly enticing pick as it is almost guaranteed lottery pick), plus Kevin Martin, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and Chandler Parsons. On top of the already amnestied Scola. Plus they’d have to cut Shaun Livingston, Courtney Fortson, Josh Harrellson, Jerome Jordan, Jon Leuer, Diamon Simpson and Greg Smith to make cap room (all of them have unguaranteed contracts).

So the Rockets’ roster would be…what, exactly? As far as I can figure, it’d be:

Toney Douglas/Chris Duhon/Marchado?
Jason Richardson/Gary Forbes
Hedu
Big Baby/Donatas Motiejunas
Dwight Howard

Talk about a team that would instantly be in the market for vet minimum guys! I suppose they’d then have the mini-MLE to spend, right?

I just don’t see how that team, even if they get all of the best vet minimum guys, would be able to compete well enough to convince Howard to stay. So weird.

How freaking cool is that?!!?

Lin, Wade, Lebron, Melo and Chandler.

That’d be awesome.

Brian Cronin:
Shit, apparently Noah actually beat Chandler last year. Crappity.

Well, Chandler’s Q score is about to go through the roof as every single Olympic telecast is going to mention that he’s the team’s only true center at least 10 times a game- that should get him a few more votes. But will it be enough to push him past Noah’s topknot??? I’d say if Chandler plays well in the Olympics and Howard does get traded Tyson will have the inside track.