Trade Idea - Harrison Barnes - Eric Gordon

New Orleans gets Harrison Barnes, Richard Jefferson and 1st round Pick
Gold State gets Eric Gordon and Al-Farouq Aminu

Why Hornets do it: Get rid of Gordon's contract, get a small forward in Barnes with endless potential, offensively and defensively, avg 9-4.5-2.5. Extreme Athlete, great size and power, Great all around offensive game attacking the rim and full pull up jumpers. Could see him developing into a mix between paul george and Danny Granger.
Hornets also get a 10 million expiring in richard jefferson which will equal out gordon's contract financially and will allow us to sign pekovic and mayo. Hornets can now take the BPA in the draft, possibly Burke

GV/Burke
Mayo/Rivers
Barnes/Miller
Davis/Ryno
Pek/Lopez

Why the Warriors do it: They finally get rid of Jefferson's terrible contract and get a stud backcourt mate with Curry, Curry and Gordon would wreak havoc, along with David Lee they would give u all the offense you need, AFA and Bogut would provide GREAT rebounding and defense

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

New Orleans gets Harrison Barnes, Richard Jefferson and 1st round Pick
Gold State gets Eric Gordon and Al-Farouq Aminu

Why Hornets do it: Get rid of Gordon's contract, get a small forward in Barnes with endless potential, offensively and defensively, avg 9-4.5-2.5. Extreme Athlete, great size and power, Great all around offensive game attacking the rim and full pull up jumpers. Could see him developing into a mix between paul george and Danny Granger.
Hornets also get a 10 million expiring in richard jefferson which will equal out gordon's contract financially and will allow us to sign pekovic and mayo. Hornets can now take the BPA in the draft, possibly Burke

GV/Burke
Mayo/Rivers
Barnes/Miller
Davis/Ryno
Pek/Lopez

Why the Wizards do it: They finally get rid of Jefferson's terrible contract and get a stud backcourt mate with Curry, Curry and Gordon would wreak havoc, along with David Lee they would give u all the offense you need, AFA and Bogut would provide GREAT rebounding and defense

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I don't think they'd do it, but I gotta give u props for finally making a half way decent trade idea thread ;)

GS adding Gordon and Aminu would help them considerably on defense which is their only weakness. Plus they don't lose any offense. I'd like to add Grevis and get Jack back but that's prob just me.

EDIT:Just realized that Jeffersons contract doesn't expire until next year, so count me out. I'm no longer interested.

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Originally Posted by GeauxPelicans

I don't think they'd do it, but I gotta give u props for finally making a half way decent trade idea thread ;)

GS adding Gordon and Aminu would help them considerably on defense which is their only weakness. Plus they don't lose any offense. I'd like to add Grevis and get Jack back but that's prob just me.

EDIT:Just realized that Jeffersons contract doesn't expire until next year, so count me out. I'm no longer interested.

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pretty sure its a team option, which we would decline, u still in? :)

Player option, not team.

damn, oh well i tried, and who cares its only for 1 season, not like we got a title shot next year

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

New Orleans gets Harrison Barnes, Richard Jefferson and 1st round Pick
Gold State gets Eric Gordon and Al-Farouq Aminu

Why Hornets do it: Get rid of Gordon's contract, get a small forward in Barnes with endless potential, offensively and defensively, avg 9-4.5-2.5. Extreme Athlete, great size and power, Great all around offensive game attacking the rim and full pull up jumpers. Could see him developing into a mix between paul george and Danny Granger.
Hornets also get a 10 million expiring in richard jefferson which will equal out gordon's contract financially and will allow us to sign pekovic and mayo. Hornets can now take the BPA in the draft, possibly Burke

GV/Burke
Mayo/Rivers
Barnes/Miller
Davis/Ryno
Pek/Lopez

Why the Wizards do it: They finally get rid of Jefferson's terrible contract and get a stud backcourt mate with Curry, Curry and Gordon would wreak havoc, along with David Lee they would give u all the offense you need, AFA and Bogut would provide GREAT rebounding and defense

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You mean Warriors, not the Wizards

Damn GS have a good team.

To be honest I think if they got Gordon they wouldn't be that much better.
It wouldn't be worth the risk to them.

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Originally Posted by AUSSIE_PELICAN

Damn GS have a good team.

To be honest I think if they got Gordon they wouldn't be that much better.
It wouldn't be worth the risk to them.

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IDK with the team they have now they are good not great, a healthy curry, gordon and lee would be phenominal
Plus a they would have jack klay and landry off the bench, this improves their starting lineup and bench instantly. I think Golden State would be crazy NOT to make this trade.

Barnes + Thompson + Jefferson FOR Gordon + Smith

I think I would do that and I can understand why they might. Better trade idea than most.

Guru, you've got to (please) stop calling everyone an 'extreme athlete'. I'm not sure why but it drives me up the wall. In your draft thread you called like half the guys on there that. Just a nitpick. I don't always agree with your assessments on trades but they're fun to read.

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Originally Posted by goat gorilla

I think I would do that and I can understand why they might. Better trade idea than most.

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Thanks, it saves them money and improves their starting lineup and bench taking them from a playoff team to a contender, it gives us enough cap to sign pekovic and we could luck out and land mclemore or shabazz and give rivers shabazz barnes davis time to develop they would be lethal i honestly like it for both teams

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Originally Posted by BallSoHard

Guru, you've got to (please) stop calling everyone an 'extreme athlete'. I'm not sure why but it drives me up the wall. In your draft thread you called like half the guys on there that. Just a nitpick. I don't always agree with your assessments on trades but they're fun to read.

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My bad im usual pretty honest about who i call very athletic, who did I say was that u dont agree with? Barnes had the fastest 3/4 court dash than anyone in the draft, even guards and put up an insane standing 40" vertical, thats a rediculous blend of size speed and jumping ability. One of his poster dunks on pekovic is up for dunk of the year.

I like your trades HG, but I just think they're too far in our favor. I don't think the other teams would do that, but I'd like to hope I'm wrong.

Curry/Jack
Gordon/Klay
Aminu/Draymond Green
Lee/Landry
Bogut/Ezeli

that might be the best roster in the league.
Warriors would be crazy not to do this trade. Its a win win for both teams

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Originally Posted by donato

I like your trades HG, but I just think they're too far in our favor. I don't think the other teams would do that, but I'd like to hope I'm wrong.

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IDK i think they are actually getting the better end of the deal, look at what their roster that I just posted would look like, insane.
Thanks for saying u like my trades.

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

Curry/Jack
Gordon/Klay
Aminu/Draymond Green
Lee/Landry
Bogut/Ezeli

that might be the best roster in the league.
Warriors would be crazy not to do this trade. Its a win win for both teams

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This isn't even close to the best roster in the league. Not to mention your backcourt is due to miss 20-30 a piece games a season.

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Originally Posted by da ThRONe

This isn't even close to the best roster in the league. Not to mention your backcourt is due to miss 20-30 a piece games a season.

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What complete roster do u like better? The clippers maybe but id still say warriors
Also the warriors arent scared of injury prone players, they gave curry a huge deal, and traded for Bogut.

I see that lineup as a 2 or 3 seed for sure. Tons of depth and no log jams. Ability I run half court or transition. Makes them dangerous.

We would have a solid young 3 to grow with Davis. If we got shabazz or mclemore. We would have young studs at 2-4 with young growing big man in Lopez and solid leader pg in GV. But most importantly money to upgrade.

Hell we could get monta Ellis and have a sick 2-4

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

New Orleans gets Harrison Barnes, Richard Jefferson and 1st round Pick
Gold State gets Eric Gordon and Al-Farouq Aminu

Why Hornets do it: Get rid of Gordon's contract, get a small forward in Barnes with endless potential, offensively and defensively, avg 9-4.5-2.5. Extreme Athlete, great size and power, Great all around offensive game attacking the rim and full pull up jumpers. Could see him developing into a mix between paul george and Danny Granger.
Hornets also get a 10 million expiring in richard jefferson which will equal out gordon's contract financially and will allow us to sign pekovic and mayo. Hornets can now take the BPA in the draft, possibly Burke

GV/Burke
Mayo/Rivers
Barnes/Miller
Davis/Ryno
Pek/Lopez

Why the Warriors do it: They finally get rid of Jefferson's terrible contract and get a stud backcourt mate with Curry, Curry and Gordon would wreak havoc, along with David Lee they would give u all the offense you need, AFA and Bogut would provide GREAT rebounding and defense

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Can you please stop making all these assumptions along with a proposed move. The trade is decent, even though there is a very small chance the Warriors accept. But then you start throwing together our roster like its a definite that we're gonna get Pek, Mayo, and Burke. It's kind of infuriating. If you want to discuss your hypothetical trade I'm all for it, but leave out all the other assumptions.

I'm with Nola3, pick one player and switch him with the guy you propose we should acquire. Leave the rest of the lineup the same. I think it's better that wau.

Am I the only one not infatuated with Pekovic?

Mickey Loomis ain't bout to let Gordon go so we should just dead these "Gordon trade ideas" threads.

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Originally Posted by iNolaNightmare

Am I the only one not infatuated with Pekovic?

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Probably. Why is that though?

Im not infatuated with Pek either. Sure hes decent, is the right age for our team, but he really doesnt do much outside the paint. It'll take 11mil+ first year to tempt the Wolves not to match and I'm not sure hes worth it. This is an era where big men are overpaid and under-contribute:

-Thunder dont have a dominant big
-Heat have no dominant big
-New York have Chandler but I wouldnt say hes dominant, they run Melo at the 4 coz it works better going small.
-Clippers have BG but again, hes not super big
-Dwight in LA is a flop

It makes you start to wonder if it's truly worth the 10mil+ for average output just to have a "big guy" on the team.

On Topic though: I don't see why the Warriors wouldn't do this, Barnes has a bright future but the Warriors future is kinda now. Klay is able to play SF so they'd be winners assuming Gordon stays healthy.