Here is a list of guys we "could" go after....

JR smith (somewhat insane... but he is really good) who has an opt out for his china contract...

Rudy fernandez who wants to start somewhere....

jamal crawford (too expensive i think and he's 30)

AAron afflalo (haha in my dreams, but theoretically possible! if we sign and traded him for mo williams).

so yeah , we have billups there, but theres got to be someone else that could make this an outright super team. I kind of wish this happened earlier with reggie williams or vince carter (though i'm not a super fan of that idea) as other options

had this idea earlier.

now the rockets have a lot of young players, some of them are not very good but they are cheap and young and COULD be good just no one really knows... that said they need a center and a 1 year kaman rental i think could work for them.

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/houston.htm

So in theory the hornets want young players / cheap salaries in the right rebuilding plan. So maybe we trade them aminu, bledsoe, minny pick for paul, we trade kaman to the rockets for some combination of thabeet (yes he sucks, but he's young!) , jordan hill, terrence williams, chase budinger, courtney lee, goran dragic , patrick patterson, the pick that they were going to send new orleans in the original lakers trade.

I mean if the league really wants to go young , getting a pick from minnesota, their own lottery pick for 2012, and this houston pick and some combination of our and the rocket's young guys would work right?

Most of those guys are kind of iffy, but they are all on rookie deals or extremely cheap making the hornets roster pretty flexible for new owners, plus they'd have all this potentially cheap young talent. on rookie contracts / qualifying offers and such.

of course david stern would do it, but its an idea.

i would think this would be a good idea even without the hornets, but clippers dont have enough spots on the roster to add that many guys. but it seems like a venue for a "get something for kaman" move

so... my friend and i were discussing this.  What do you guys think?

Yeah I know jeff green hasn't been awesome for the celtics, but as a 3rd banana type on the thunder he was pretty good.  and well we need a 3rd banana type.

He's a restricted free agent, and well maybe we aren't getting equal value here, but hypothetically it frees up money to sign deandre + makes sure deandre is the starter, we could make them throw in draft picks or say avery bradley and draft picks... the celtics need a center given jermaine oneal is 500 years old and shaq is retiring.

like jeff green + 3 milllion dollars + a first round pick (if they dont have one they can trade bradley for one) for kaman.  (DTS will bite on the 3 milliion!,  c'mon wyc grousbeck)

granted this could not happen to a better player, but if he's out for the game, i like our chances.  i still think a game on a back to back on the road will be tough but...

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/01/trail_blazers_center_marcus_ca_1.html

marcus camby has a torn meniscus and won't be playing ....

so here is to hoping we can knock off the wolves, blazers and warriors in a row.

Now I know there will be some grumbling about how we actually already had him.  But doesn't camby work better with the rest of our team, given he's like an older wiser version of deandre, and we have enough scorers it seems?

THey make about the same salary and I think their deals actaully end at the same time.... probably would help both teams too.

Maybe we could even get the blazers to throw something else in, since well a scoring center probably is something they could use

after watching last nights game... lets pretend for a moment we can see into the future. i was very disturbed by the fans booing EJ at the line and cheering for kobe and such, but I suppose that is the clippers job to win over most of the "fans" of LA gladiator style.  i keep cheering for this team because of my crazy dream that ill watch a banner go up some day.

so anyway lets assume there is no lockout.

lets pretend most of the vets are borderline expendable.  i like a few of them, i think smith, gomes, and cook at their current salaries really aren't bad.  butler seems like he is ok for like league minimum money at best.  and baron is done for.  kaman i dont think we have to trade, but he's probably going to be too expensive to keep.

so lets do this OKC style yes?

next year we'll have a lottery pick.  say we win 29 games again that probalby gives us the 7th or so pick if we dont win.  we draft  tyler honeycutt  or someone around there for our bench.

so we'll still have kaman for next year and given brendan haywood can make $9 million a year to rot on our dallas' bench we might not be able to afford him and extending deandre.  lets say deandre gets marcin gortat level money and we resign him after this year (6 million... seemse reasonble).   

so next season the clippers will have gordon, griffin, aminu, bledsoe, and honeycutt / new rookie and warren on rookie deals.   dj resigned.  we resign smith, we still have foye and gomes and cook.  baron comes into camp 295 pounds and we just give up on him.

so we play out next year,  lets say the team wins 45 games, and gets the 8th seed, takes the okc hornets to 7 games.  lakers are in decline having not won the 2011 championship , phil jackson retires, kobe's finger is arthritic and he's old and shoots and even lower percentage,  bynum is injured half the season and laker clipper games actually have a real home crowd for a change.   jerry buss' son is causing a ruckus with jeanie buss and the lakers are in some turmoil.  magic johnson goes on tnt with kenny and charles to talk about how disappointed he is with the infighting......   blake and ej make their first all star teams.

now its 2012-2013 season.  we give our pick since its a non lottery to okc who we just lost to, to pay for bledsoe's pick.  minnesota is a lottery team , and we get the 5th pick.   we draft some big man,  to backup dj or something who knows.  maybe we sign a journey man veteran backup as well. 

we either let kaman walk (he wants 10 million per, and mark cuban wants to pay him that so he can unite team germany) or trade him for vets / picks.   baron is now an expiring deal and has been rotting on our bench for a while.  he's dressed very nicely and wins an emmy for his AAU movie.  he retires to be a movie producer, we buy him out / etc.

at this point we've extended eric gordon , at 6 years 80 million or something.  he's an all star and we had money since we let kaman walk.  aminu , griffin and bledsoe are still on rookie deals, and we are about to extend griffin.   foye's deal is off the books after that season.  1 more season of gomes who has been decent, but honeycutt and aminu can hold down SF anyway.  

we have tons of cap space, tons of young players,  everyone on rookie deals and 2 all stars.   we sign a few veterans as backups (2 years from now,  a 38 year old steve nash signs to be a winner and hang out with baron).

steve immediately gets injured after jason powell touches him, so not everything is perfect, so we sign chauncey billups to a 2 million a year deal.

clippers win the title in 2014 and my friends are no longer making fun of me in my fantasy league (one that i currently have ej , blake and kaman in).  people on clipsnation are still complaining that VDN is a bad coach and eric gordon is below average because he loses out on the mvp in a tight vote to blake griffin so some things are still the same.  ESPN's clipper index gets many many page hits.

DTS at the championship parade says ,   i made so much money pre-buying clipper chamionship car flags that i then sold to bandwagon fans,  that i am done being cheap and we have decided to pay mike dunleavy sr his salary since i thank him for coaching bad enough to get us blake griffin.