Possible Trade Partner?

But I doubt they give up a first round pick

One minor detail: Carl Landry re-signed w them, so that’s a 4.

That the Hornets may be a bad trading partner for us since they don’t want to improve our team and make our pick worse for them. We may have to wait until the offseason to do a deal with the Hornets or this reason.

Nope.

So there is no way they make a trade that will help us win more games in 2012… That would just serve to lower the draft slot from our pick.

That said, I have said for 2-3 years that Emeka is a great fit on our roster. Adelman prefers facilitator bigs, but he already has Love for that role in the offense.

If we are to add a big salary this year, I still say it will be Kevin Martin for a modest package. I’d like a Martin, Lin & the return of our 2012 2nd-rounder for Pekovic, Ridnour, Martell. And, yes, I absolutely believe that gets it done. They like Pek and Martell’s salary comes off the books next year

I thought this might be an interesting trade.

Wouldn’t mind Mayo and Memphis gets their pseudo home town kid. GS gets either Beasley or Williams (at Adelman’s discretion) and a back up point guard for when they want to slide Curry over. I’d seriously think about it.

mak07 is correct, that MIN and NOH would make good trading partners. I could see a deal for Okafor (NOH gains financially and the NOH pick value .. MIN gains in talent), and even a swap based around Eric Gordon and Derrick Williams (Williams is won-later, better publicity, more cheap years on rookie scale, and can’t force his way out as quickly .. MIN gains win now-talent and fit). Unfortunately, as long as NOH owns the MIN pick, they will do no trade that makes us better.

There are two ways to sidestep this now:

1. We could add talent that would reduce the value of the MIN pick. For example, if we dealt for Iguodala (which I don’t recommend), we’d pick up more wins already. If NOH did a trade that added a few more, it wouldn’t matter as much.

2. NOH trades the MIN pick now. NOH capitalizes on the pick’s current value, based on what people expect of us before a NOH trade. It might frustrate the new owner of that pick, but Stern won’t veto a deal that move Okafor, and saves 29 owners from paying his $41 mil over the next three years.

Since we know that NOH loses value in the MIN 1st if they add talent, the converse is also true .. NOH gains if we ship out 2011-12 talent for future gain.

Right now, MIN is in a win-now situation, but if the season starts poorly, or if a guy like Beasley or Randolph isn’t seen by Adelman as part of our future, the Wolves may consider trading talent for future assets. NOH shouldn’t be the recipient .. they may damage their own pick .. but they could help grease the wheels

For example, suppose it’s early February, and IND looks like they may make the play-offs if they can only find a 6th man who can put points on the board. They like Beasley, but MIN won’t accept their offer of Dahntay Jones, George Hill and an unprotected IND 1st because MIN doesn’t want to eat Jones salary. Surprisingly, since it’s in MEM’s best interest if we moved Beasley, you could see them throw $3 mil at us (for a 2nd) to encourage us to make that deal.

My point is that while having a team own your pick is never good, it invests them in your record, and gives your GM a bit of hidden leverage that I’d like to see used. A few less wins could mean a significantly better player for MEM.

Wolves get:
Rajon Rondo (from Boston)
Nick Young (from Washington)

Celtics get:
Luke Ridnour (from Minnesota)
Michael Beasley (from Minnesota)
Ronny Turiaf (from Washington)

Wizards get:
Wes Johnson (from Minnesota)
Jermaine O’Neal (from Boston)
Avery Bradley (from Boston)

:D

Tyreke Evans and mabey a second round pick?

already have on the roster, despite what some said, I think Khan did a decent job of assembling the team and I think you guys could make the playoffs when its all said and done this year.