Originally Posted by cwilder
The fact of the matter is we were NOT going to win a championship with the team we had. West, Paul, Peja, and Chandler were not going to be able to beat Kobe and Company in a 7 game series period.
So once we realized that what do we do? Start over and build around our two All-Stars (Cp3, D-West) Shedding Chandlers contract was a step in the right direction for our future. Tyson will never give you a better year then he had last year and from here on out he will be an *overpaid* average center with above average defense and subpar offense.
We have over 12 Million dollars worth of expiring contracts for the famous 2010 Free Agency Period this is where we will be able to aquire some value through trading these contracts or keeping them and signing some players via FA. Not to mention we will have more money then we can handle for the 2011 Free Agency Period (The year before we need to resign CP3.) This gives us a chance to have two consecutive summers to put pieces around Cp3 to try and keep him in NO for the remainder of his career.
Had we kept Tyson's contract around we would have been restricted to make any kind of moves until at least 2011 and would have been 1 and done every year in the playoffs until then. This trade put's us in position to build a better team then what we wouldve had with tyson by the time CP3 needs to sign his extension with us.
Love it or hate it we would not have won with Tyson. And his contract was restricting us from adding any addititonal pieces that could help us win until he came off the books in 2011.
Im happy with the trade. Yes we won't win this year anymore, but we werent going to with tyson either way. So why not move on and give us some flexibility to make moves for the future and trade Tyson while his value is the highest it ever will be. Besides Wilcox will give us decent production from C and our backup C just got 10x better and depth was really killing us at that position.
And we got a promising young prospect who has the "Potential" to be a contributer in 2 or 3 years. This kid has huge upside and playing overseas will really help him develop his game and be able to come and and contribute as soon as he comes back.