If the trades happen...

by Andy Brooke on Dec 10, 2011 5:31 PM CST

and I'm talking West sign and trade for O'Neal / Bradley, and Paul / Okafor for Odom / Bynum / Martin / Scola / Dragic then we'd have 11 players on the roster and a total wage bill of $71m. I doubt it'll be the last work Demps does but it's a worrying thought when you look at the fact it only includes 1 centre and he's injury prone! And Scola for 4 years and rising to over $11m...and he's already 31?!

I'm bored and like spreadsheets so here's the data. Contract is length with team options for Bynum / Odom / Ariza and Bradley. It's from HoopsHype, I don't know if it's accurate.

Player	$	Contract	Position	Age
Andrew Bynum	15,157,667	1 / 2	C	24
Kevin Martin	12,019,840	2	SG	28
Lamar Odom	8,900,000	1 / 2	SF	32
Luis Scola	8,591,793	4	PF	31
Trevor Ariza	6,790,640	2/3	SF	26
Jermaine O'Neal	6,226,000	1	PF	33
Jarrett Jack	5,220,000	2	PG	28
Marco Belinelli	3,377,604	1	SG	25
Goran Dragic	2,108,000	1	PG	25
Avery Bradley	1,524,480	2/3	PG	21
Quincy Pondexter	1,153,800	3	SF	23

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I would actually like to flip Odom

For some backcourt depth and re-sign Carl Landry

Peyton, I can eat Oreos faster than you!!!!

by mknkachow on Dec 10, 2011 7:21 PM CST reply actions

Welcome to At the Hive!

And great first post… looks like everything’s changed though haha

by Rohan on Dec 11, 2011 2:52 AM CST reply actions

And that's why...

you’ve got to love the NBA! In the cold light of day (I’m in the UK so it’s 9:45am here), I’m glad this all fell through. This trade gave us the option of flipping O’Neal and resinging Landry to give us depth at 3 (Ariza / Odom) and 4 (Scola / Landry) but I really don’t like Scola’s contract and looking purely at numbers I hate Okafor for Bynum.

Okafor missed 10 games in 4 years, Bynum missed 124 over the same period. His salary was $3m a year more and he averaged a few mins per game less. You’d need a very good back-up for Bynum if you’re accepting the likelihood of him missing around 25-30 games a season – and those extra 3 inches he has over Okafor (at a million dollars each!) don’t really add up to much on the per game stats front, either from last year or career averages.

Let’s hope Demps can put something else together now.

by Andy Brooke on Dec 11, 2011 3:49 AM CST reply actions