J.R. Smith has literally been shanghaied away for the foreshortened 2011-2012 NBA season: rolling ILH sandbox thread

HowardBeckNYTHoward Beck

Three likely ways to get Tyson-NY deal done: Amnesty Billups, trade Billups to team w/cap room or trade Billups to DAL in sign-trade for TC

no one should play for detroit

Why the hell would Dallas want Billups?

J Kidd hasn't retired yet has he? They still got Barea?

jjb might be on the way out.

billups has put himself into a corner, too. i imagine he'd be hated in NY if he killed a deal for chandler.

clippers just gave caron butler a 3 year deal...............

for 24 million???????????????

clippers? huh. thought bulls had butler all but signed.

Marc J. Spears @SpearsNBAYahoo -- Cavs expected to use new amnesty rule on PG Baron Davis once the new CBA is official, source tells @YahooSports. Until then, BD in Cavs camp

the pistons resigned jonas jerebko? to a 4 yr 16m deal? they need to wheel dumars off like hannibal

guy has problems 4 real

i think hes still high on 04 championship fumes

literally every move he's made since picking up sheed that year has been straight garbage

yah he built that team off the trash heap and it made him think he was a genius but it was really just flukey

breaking: oden u guyyyys stoppppp

also wtf is going on the nba is fucking crazy again yay!

you don't know the half of it.

WE SIGNED EDDY CURRY.

apparently some other players might be moving to new teams, too, but whatevs.

Russ Bengtson @russbengtson -- Eddy Curry upon arriving in Miami: "Is this beef jerky all for me?" "No Eddy, that's Juwan Howard."

dynamite, for the lolz alone.

@WojYahooNBA The Hornets are near a deal to send Chris Paul to Lakers for Bynum and Lamar Odom, league source tells Y! Sports.

NEWS FLASH

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA -- The Hornets have started to inform teams that they're sending Chris Paul to the Lakers for Bynum and Odom, league sources tell Y! Sports.

wow... really feel like the lakers got off pretty easy there

odom is done in like 3 years and bynum is a massive wildcard

has kobe ever played w/ an actual PG? how is this going to work?

but lakers giving up a lot of size, and odom's been good for them. dunno.

So who wants Rondo? All signs point to butthurt in Boston.

i mean, if they can trade gasol for howard, okay, but otherwise . . .

welp

If they traded Gasol for Howard, who plays PF?

same thing as heat, they'd be a Big 3 with lots of minimum contract guys around them.

and they'd hope that, to chase a championship, some quality players would go to LA for less money.

if the lakers get Paul and Howard I quit

like what's a guy supposed to do

Correction: The proposed deal to the Lakers is Chris Paul for Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom, source says.

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

still, would those pieces fit together that well? great defense, i guess, but very susceptible to injury (CP3) and decline (KobE)

ah! holding bynum for howard. WOW.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:07 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

still not sure if this is gonna happen... the magic would REALLY have to like andrew bynum, or get zero offers from other teams. bcuz w/ odom to NO they basically have nothing left to trade except an oft-injured, possibly psychotic center and a bunch of role players nobody would want. we'll see.

that's true.

that...can't actually be real can it

pau was a giant zero in the playoffs last year and odom is sort of good but not really a building piece

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren't big

i guess LAL have to be the western conference favorite, tho, since dallas is losing chandler. maybe OKC.

i think it's still far more likely that they get the godfather offer from the bulls

also wtf is going on the nba is fucking crazy again yay!

― ~occubarn~ (clay), Thursday, December 8, 2011 10:46 PM

srsly its like http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv57uojPhv1qfjjglo3_250.gif all of a sudden

btw way under the radar i LOVE the butler-to-clips move, clips basically had an empty pair of shoes at small forward last year so tough juice is a big upgrade even if his numbers aren't big

― concussion section, Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:11 PM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink

giving a 31 year old who has played 56 games over the past two seasons a 3 yr / 24 m deal is o_O

yeah feel like the clips either dont have faith in aminu or care more about using him as a trade piece for god knows what.

i def don't think aminu is ready to start in the nba

i think it's still far more likely that they get the godfather (pizza) offer from the bulls

this made me think the bulls were going to trade herman cain to orlando

If rest of deal goes through as proposed, sources tell ESPN that HOU would send Kevin Martin, Luis Scola and Goran Dragic to N.O. for Gasol

This deal keeps morphing.

so houston gets gasol and . . . keeps trying to get nene or dalembert?

that makes a lot more sense

that being the three way deal

so they'd have money for gasol and dalembert/nene, i guess.

trying to figure out if houston is dropping out of the race for one of those two centers.

overall that's a pretty good if totally weird deal for NO