Just went to my twitter account and found this from Adrian Wojnarowski.

Breakdown of Larry Drew's NBA coaching low salary goes this way, source says: $1 million, $1.5 million, and 3rd year team option for $2 mill. You can claim what you wish but this higher was about being cheap. How can you possibly claim that you fired your coach who won 53 games because you are raising the ceiling then turnaround and become the team with lowest paid coach in the league. What ever happened to you get what you pay for? I know what happened to it, it remains true and they will get what they paid for a return to the lottery

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/16106/sixers-shopping-no-2-pick

Well the above link explains why I even think this is possible. Furthermore, it has been reported over the net before this article so I think it has atleast a spec of truth to it.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine

The above link is my proposed offer. It is basically Brand, Meeks, and #2 pick for Jamal, Marvin, Zaza, and our pick. Teague represents our pick in the above link because his salary will be vary similar to our picks, but I am not proposing Teague in trade. The trade would also work if I take away Teague and Meeks, that would leave Brand and #2 pick for Jamal,Marvin, and Zaza but I doubt they would do that because that would leave them with no 1st round pick.

Now that you see that it is totally possible that we could add a guy that could be a superstar 3 to 5 years from now and a big piece to maybe taking the next step this upcoming year or next let's look at the players.

Evan Turner: he is 6'7" with shoes on and could definitely play the 2 and some 3. Joe could move to the 3.

Demarcus Cousins: 6"10.75" with shoes, which measured a half inch better than Dwight Howard and a full inch better than Al. He also has a better wingspan than Howard and Horford, needless to say I think he can play C without a huge problem.

Hassan Whiteside: 6'11.5" with shoes, with a crazy 7"7 wingspan, he is gonna shoot up draft boards, don't know that he is gonna go up this far but he could.

Now the question is would this transaction be too rich for our blood. I am quite sure that the management will paint it so because Brand truly is a bad contract, maybe the worse in the league which is the only reason they are even entertaining offers, but how bad is it to us, a team who is closer to competing on a championship level than the Sixers are?

The 1st year of this deal would work out pretty even for both teams, the 2011 year is where the Hawks would feel the heat of Brands contract when they have to re-sign a guy like Al for 2011 season, but they will have the right to match anyone so they don't have to lose him.  On the other hand, Brand will have a expiring contract in 2012, you could probably move it during that summer or year for another piece or just let him leave, so you really have only 1 year where you should feel stuck with the guy and that's 2011.  My thoughts are that this could potentially be a great deal.

The bad part is that we pick up a unwanted contract and lose a wanted one with Brand coming here and Crawford going there. We also lose depth and would have to replace it with not so much money. The good part is we would potentially have another rising star while keeping Joe.

Teague/Bibby

Johnson/Meeks/?

Turner/?

Josh/Brand?

Horford/?

or

Teague/Bibby

Johnson/Meeks/?

Smith/?

Horford/Brand

Cousins/?

What do you think?

I live in Atlanta and support the Hawks, Braves, and Falcons. So, I roam posts for all three and there is something I just don't get about Hawks Fans on this blog. Why do you guys have such a love affair for Marvin and Zaza? They are both representatives of everything that is bad about this Hawks team. Marvin is inconsistent and a underachiever and Zaza is also inconsistent. They both are indicative of how you lose twice to New York on your own floor. Along with only running your offense about 40% of the time, which is pick and roll, the same as every other NBA team. I support the Hawks but just don't get the love affair with these two particular guys. Thanks good day.