Chad Ford: Trade for Paul was very close

[RR7]

I agree and I has teh wood thinking about Paul/Roy with some combo of LMA/Oden/Batum. I think trading LMA for more pieces NOH wants is the way to go. Someone (I'm looking at you Rastapopulous!) who's better at arm chair GM'ing needs to figure out a creative way to get it done. Obviously draft picks, cash and Euro farm are well on the table. I really think you want to Keep Oden/Roy and if possible one of LMA/Batum I'd prefer Batum.

I think you'd have to end up losing, possibly, both Aldridge and Batum. I mentioned I think in a different thread, if the key for N.O. is including Okafor, Paul and Okafor together make $26,435,153. In order to take on them two, we'd need to send out $21,148,123. Joel and Andre equal $14,674,564. So you still need to send out $6,473,559. Batum, Bayless and Rudy combined don't get you there. Adding in Babbitt signed doesn't either. If they insist on Okafor in the deal, they'd need to take back Aldridge, or we'd need to include Oden. We can send Aldridge to a 3rd team in a 3 way deal, but I don't believe in two separate deals.

 

[Idog1976]

I think you'd have to end up losing, possibly, both Aldridge and Batum. I mentioned I think in a different thread, if the key for N.O. is including Okafor, Paul and Okafor together make $26,435,153. In order to take on them two, we'd need to send out $21,148,123. Joel and Andre equal $14,674,564. So you still need to send out $6,473,559. Batum, Bayless and Rudy combined don't get you there. Adding in Babbitt signed doesn't either. If they insist on Okafor in the deal, they'd need to take back Aldridge, or we'd need to include Oden. We can send Aldridge to a 3rd team in a 3 way deal, but I don't believe in two separate deals.

OMFG I found it:

http://www.realgm.com/src_tradechecker/3/

Portland trades:

AMEC
JPEC
Bayless
Rudy
Batum
Camby

Picks + Cash

New Orleans trades

CP3, Posey and Okafor.

Hallelujah!