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Just throwing an idea out there--a straight Hinrich for LaFrentz swap doesn't work, but if you throw in Ruffin it does.
 
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It's another 1.14 million in expiring contracts we have to trade?
 
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Diogu for ruffin does not work straight up, theres gotta be more too it, maybe Luol?
 
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But then the Blazers would have 4 PGs(3 if you ask MARIS).

Something bigger is happening.
 
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WHY would they bother with a trade exception, Diogu means that much to them?
 
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there has got to be something bigger to this.

what i wanna know is.... how does the whole trading a player twice work? I think you can trade a player again within 48 hours to another team. I mean sheed got traded again after our deal with the hawks.
 
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guys click the link i posted. it works according to trade machine
 
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MIXUM said:
what i wanna know is.... how does the whole trading a player twice work? I think you can trade a player again within 48 hours to another team. I mean sheed got traded again after our deal with the hawks.
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A player can't be traded with other players for a few months after the initial trade.

As I recall, Sheed was traded alone.
 
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Apparently for Michael Ruffin. Could be part of something bigger coming. According to Chris Sheridan on Espn.com.
 
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MIXUM said:
there has got to be something bigger to this.

what i wanna know is.... how does the whole trading a player twice work? I think you can trade a player again within 48 hours to another team. I mean sheed got traded again after our deal with the hawks.
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Yes, but it has to be a 1:1 swap. After the Sheed trade, they stopped allowing teams to package players they just traded for.
 
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Apparently for Michael Ruffin. Could be part of something bigger coming. According to Chris Sheridan on Espn.com.
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Sheridan said it could be part of something bigger? INTERESTING! Deng me!
 
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Ruffin and trade exception for Ike? Gives us more leverage in a bigger deal?
 
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So this means we're getting a trade exception of roughly 2 million? Cause then this smells like a Tom Penn move, setting up another trade.
 
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http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/sports/kings/archives/019745.html?mi_atom=Kings Blog and Q&A
According to numerous league sources, a trade sending Kings players Brad Miller and John Salmons to Chicago in exchange for Andres Nocioni, Drew Gooden, Michael Ruffin and Cedric Simmons has been agreed upon and is pending league approval.

In a separate deal with Portland, Ike Diogu comes to the Kings for Ruffin. The Kings are also expected to receive approximately $1 million in the trade with Portland.

The Kings are not only a bad team, but an expensive bad team that had a payroll of $69 million before this deal. At a time when they desperately need to improve their salary cap situation for the future, this trade saves them approximately $13.5 million in salary cap room for next season. It could potentially make them more relevant in the free agent market this summer or allow the payroll flexibility to be more active on the trade front after this season. Beyond next season, though, Nocioni's contract will add $6.9 million to payroll in 2010-11 and $6.7 million in 2011-12. Gooden, Ruffin and Simmons all have expiring contracts worth $7.1 million, $1.1 million, and $1.7 million respectively.

Read the Kings blog at www.sacbee.com/kingsblog.
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Article has been updated:

The deal also involved a third team. The Bulls agreed to send Michael Ruffin to Portland, and the Trail Blazers would ship Ike Diogu to the Kings, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.
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This makes no sense. Shipping out Diogu just to bring back Ruffin?

-Pop
 
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Either it's setting us up for another trade with the TE, OR it's actually part of a three team deal yet to be announced.
 
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axs88 said:
So this means we're getting a trade exception of roughly 2 millions? Cause then this smells like a Tom Penn move, setting up another trade.
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Exactly.

This is a classic Tom Penn move. This is all about the trade exception. I wonder what's coming next...
 
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axs88 said:
So this means we're getting a trade exception of roughly 2 millions? Cause then this smells like a Tom Penn move, setting up another trade.
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or were saving roughly $2 million on Ike's contract, hopefully in preparation of eating someone else's bad contract.
 
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Dang, ok. I'm going to excersize and be back... Watch me miss something huge.

Go Blazers!
 
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OK. So Ruffin for Ike doesn't work.

Is it true that trade exceptions cannot be bundled together? So the Bulls have to be sending something else to get the trade to match up?

It'll be interesting to see. Ruffin is useless, it seems, given that he hasn't played a minute for the Bulls this year.

Ed O.
 
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Ike AND a cool $1 mil to the Kings for Ruffin? haha... that can't be it. This is going to be one big deal I think..
 
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Now I can say that Diogu was useless. He was the only guy on the team that didn't come out before games and work with coaches. Too busy playing video games.

Ruffan is a legit veteran enforcer. 6' 8", 248.

(On edit) Oooops. Forget the veteran enforcer theory. Ruffin has been injured all season. Now I don't know what's up at all.
 
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or were saving roughly $2 million on Ike's contract, hopefully in preparation of eating someone else's bad contract.
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Although that's prorated based on how much of the season is already over; by my quick math we only save about $800k in actual money, since 5/8 of the season has already been played and 5/8 of Ike's contract has already been paid.

I think this is all about the trade exception.
 
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Ed O said:
OK. So Ruffin for Ike doesn't work.

Is it true that trade exceptions cannot be bundled together? So the Bulls have to be sending something else to get the trade to match up?

It'll be interesting to see. Ruffin is useless, it seems, given that he hasn't played a minute for the Bulls this year.

Ed O.
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it does work!!! http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=bp5e5g
 
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SodaPopinski said:
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This makes no sense. Shipping out Diogu just to bring back Ruffin?
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OK!

Now it makes some sense.

The Blazers save money, presumably, by sending Diogu to Sacramento, even if they send money to the Kings to cover (some of?) the difference.

Because it was part of a larger deal, the Kings are taking in within the allowed difference of what they're sending out, and a team can ALWAYS take back less than it sends out... and that creates a trade exception.

Honestly, though? This looks like a pure dollar-saving move. Which, if Ike is never going to be used, makes sense.

Ed O.
 
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How do we get a trade exception out of this? Can someone explain that?
 
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