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Originally Posted by moon
All the offers there are better than the LA offer as NO gets younger and better talent in all those deals.
All the LA deal gives them is expensive crap that ensures they will be slightly below mediocre to bad for the next 5+ years.
At least with guys like Curry, Rondo, Bledsoe, Amare, they get relatviely young guys who are or have the potential to be elite guys.
Scola, Martin, Odom are decent 4/5th options on top teams but if these guys are going to be the base of your team going forward you are going nowhere very quickly. To trade a star like Paul and increase your salary is nuts.
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Clippers trade is the best of the bunch by far since it gives you the best chance at a star who may actually play for you (Minnesota 1st).
The New York trade doesn't work because Amare will pout his way out of New Orleans. I have a feeling that the Rondo situation would probably be similar, as nobody wants to go from Boston to New Orleans.
I am not sure the Monta Ellis trade is better then Gasol +Odom, Curry would have been a better option but the Warriors reportedly removed him from trade negotiations.
I think the reason New Orleans wanted the Houston/L.A. trade is becuase it gave them some decent players that would probably actually be okay with playing in N.O. and a draft pick for the future. Scola, Miller, and Odom are decent 3/4/5 guys, and it gave them the NYK pick which they could use to maybe move up picks at the draft.
I agree that it was crazy for N.O. to take on more salary, they should have been dumping Salary one way or another in that trade.