well then we might not even need a camby certainly not a chris andersen type though my guess says even if he did come he is likely to spend at least some time in the d-league but i guess we will find out in a couple weeks with the summer league. the more i think about millsap as much as i love his game the less i like the idea of spending that money. even if ibaka is coming maybe a camby move if we can make it is the perfect one so he can teach ibaka for a year. lots of options

maybe we should look into the option of pulling off another Kurt Thomas type deal with a team that doesnt want to pay the luxury tax where will take a contract from them if it is one year if they give us a 1st round pick especially with how this draft might be. NO for antonio daniels comes to mind as much as they are trying to remove salary.

or at least some of us. the only deals they should take on are either one year deals or looking to take on cheap young talent from teams that would want to keep them but just cant afford them with cap problems. I think the Leon Powe’s, even big baby davis’ though i think he will command more and isnt as a good a fit, those players are our targets. I brought up IIyasova the other day and some didnt like it, but i still think he fits that cheap young talent model.

i have no problem taking on salary this year in trades if it frees up down the road or we get draft picks for it. we did it last year taking on joe smith and desmond to unload luke, donyell. we took on basically 800K for atkins to move up 10 picks in the draft. Took on a million bucks at the end of the year to move wilcox. i have no problem getting close to the cap number if we get something for doing it and it doesnt hurt us long term. I didnt give it serious thought until today but that Daniels from NO for a 1st idea to save them basically 10 million and really cost us little is one i like. Daniels was a solid player and person for this organization back in seattle and can help russell in his development. I do also like those couple big man deals of Camby for Collison and Atkins, Watson for Haslem because it add another 7 mil to our cap next summer and while i think a lot of teams will be under the cap i think we could make a run at RFA’s not even UFA’s next summer and one i would target would be LaMarcus. I doubt Portland would let him go but if they are going after Lee which is the speculation right now and he is going to take the 10 mil they were going to give Hedo that makes it more interesting. roy will get max money which should be somewhere around 14 mil i believe and the rumors of Miller going there S&T for 10 mil a year and the salary starts to add up. Could they decide to keep him, no doubt, but we would have the money to give him 10+ mil without a problem and he more than a Lee or Millsap is worth that, if they fail to reup him this summer.

Camby-Kristic-Mullens (D-League)
Green-Haslem-White (probably a lot of D-League)- Powe (rehab)
KD-Green (still would like another backup 3 unless the longterm plan is to make Green a 6 man)
Harden-Thabo-Weaver (D-League)
Westbrook-Livingston-Daniels

That team lets us compete even more than last year, lets our young core develop and grow together and would leave us with 26.89 million in definite salary next year (KD, Green, Westbrook, Harden, White, Mullens, Weaver) with Kristic having his 5.8 million option and us left to qualify and extend Thabo. I personally dont think Thabo should get a long term deal worth more than maybe 5 million max, maybe others think he can get more. That would leave us with 37.6 million or so in salary which is or approx 20 mil under this years cap (dont know what they will do with it next year) with as many as 3 1st round picks. Add to that Ibaka and Hardin should be ready to come over and all of that should provide us with the pieces we need to contend for a playoff spot in 10/11 and become a perennial contender as this unit grows together.

because in toronto he will be the man while in Portland he is at best number 3. to me it is ego. they will say toronto hasa more turkish population and his wife likes the city but that is base of it i think. not to mention if colangelo makes a good trade with bosh they can be good in the east again very quickly

they already have solid options 1-4 in calderon, derozan, hedo and bargnani.

colangelo should try to pry away biedrins and some other pieces (azubuike, randolph would be great) from GS for bosh and that team is just as good as probably philly or atl, chicago is going to lack some scoring without ben too. so they would be a 5-6 seed contender in the east. is portland a better team? Yes. I dont understand the portland interest in david lee either. he cant defend, he is worse than Aldridge and he certainly cant play the 5, so i dont get that. Portland needs a PG who can distribute to let Roy roam and a true shooter who can play the 3.