Now, I don’t want to go all Chris Alvino on you and blog about every single trade that pops into my head, but I’ve been doing some thinking. (Just kidding, Chris, if you’re reading this 
. Chad Ford made his name on this kind of thing and we’ve done lots of it on this blog too.)
I thought of these deals after reading on RealGM.com that the Mavs are interested in moving Josh Howard. What is interesting is that the rumor involves Howard for Bargnani. Hell, the Knicks could beat that. I played around with trade machine and came up with these.
Curry/Jeffries/Lee for Stackhouse and Howard
Curry/Rose/Lee/Roberson for Howard and Dampier (Dampier’s deal is not guaranteed for 2010).
Howard’s deal runs past 2010, but as long as we’re trading away Curry and Lee, having it on the books won’t interfere with the long term plans. Trading Curry, Jeffries and Lee is even better cap wise.
I recognize the limitations of these proposals. In the first one, we have nobody up front. Our starting PF would probably be Chandler and Harrington would have to start at Center or something stupid like that. Also, and this applies to the second proposal, would the Mavs go for it? Are we dumping too many bloated salaries on them? As it stands now, come 2010 they’d be able to afford another superstar to pair with Nowitzki if they don’t sign or re-sign anyone from now until then.
Well, if they are willing to part with Howard for Bargnani, who is slightly less of a bust with the #1 overall pick than Kwame Brown, you’d have to think they’d give some thought to Lee, and maybe even Curry to compliment Dirk if Curry can prove that he can get in shape.
In the end, this is a day dream and I don’t think Dallas considers anything like this. But adding two superstars to Josh Howard in 2010 sounds good to me. What about you?
my knick fix nyk gets diaw bell sign ewing jr,grunfeld and sims get rid of curry thomas roberson sims we get youth low cost contracts and cap space for 2010 keep lee how does this sound..
David, that sounds fine to me. If we can get rid of Curry I’d be fine with keeping Lee. (Assuming we don’t overpay). I’m still not sold on getting Diaw though because of his contract. In fact, I might be mistaken but I think he makes almost as much as Curry. If you really want Diaw, how does signing him to a reasonable contract in 2012 sound when he’s a free agent? Or trading for him after the summer in 2010? As for Ewing, Sims, and Grunfeld…I’d say, if nobody better comes along, why not…though I think we could probably do better.
knicks fans please stop with the patrick ewing jr talk. the man doesnt start for the reno bighorns of the dleague http://www.nba.com/dleague/reno/statistics/. im sure there is another player who could help us more than a guy who you only want because his father was a hall of fame center for the knicks.