Steve Nash: Trade to Portland would be a "terrific situation"

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Sounds like they want to get rid of bad contracts

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Steve Nash? It’s been said a couple of times that Howard’s camp has asked the Magic to pursue specific players and it’s being reported that Phoenix’s Steve Nash is the latest name added to the list.

Nash told reporters last night he understood he could be traded before the March 15th trade deadline, but was again clear he is not asking for a trade and feels it would be disrespectful to his teammates he loves to jump ship now.

Suns sources continue to say they would do a new two-year deal for Nash which is likely why he is staying so loyal, however it is clear that Orlando and several other teams including the Portland Trail Blazers have eyes for Nash.

League sources speculated that any deal involving Nash would have to send out at least two unfavorable Phoenix contracts – Hakim Warrick, Channing Frye and or Josh Childress come to mind.

The Magic’s best trade assets are J.J Redick and Ryan Anderson. The question remains would Orlando really trade Anderson, as it seems he would have to be the center piece of any deal involving Nash who is in the final year of his deal worth $11.6 million.
 
Okay, if the Suns really want to dump salary, how about this:

Nash, Frye, Childress and Warrick for Wallace, Camby and Felton. (And we'd have to waive somebody else. Joel, probably!)

Would you do it? I bet the Suns would take it seriously. It would totally fuck up our cap space for years to come.

(I would gladly substitute Wes and Oden for Wallace. Maybe they could throw in Robin Lopez if we include the rights to Oden.)
 
I'd love Channing back here. Not interested in Childress, but Warrick is serveiceable as well. Or, if they considered Dudley a bad deal, would not mind at all.\
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Okay, if the Suns really want to dump salary, how about this:

Nash, Frye, Childress and Warrick for Wallace, Camby and Felton. (And we'd have to waive somebody else. Joel, probably!)

Would you do it? I bet the Suns would take it seriously. It would totally fuck up our cap space for years to come.

(I would gladly substitute Wes and Oden for Wallace. Maybe they could throw in Robin Lopez if we include the rights to Oden.)
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I think they would take that as well. But like you said it would fuck up our cap space. But it would get it done
 
Biggest issue I can see is, if you're making a win now move of adding Nash, it's not all that great to then move Camby in the deal. Joel gonna go from not playing to being our starting C?
 
Been wanting to hear this all season. We can take frye and Childress for Wallace. Then we would offer Felton and Matthews for Nash.

And to be perfectly honest, it's worth it!
 
Rastapopoulos said:
Okay, if the Suns really want to dump salary, how about this:

Nash, Frye, Childress and Warrick for Wallace, Camby and Felton. (And we'd have to waive somebody else. Joel, probably!)

Would you do it? I bet the Suns would take it seriously. It would totally fuck up our cap space for years to come.

(I would gladly substitute Wes and Oden for Wallace. Maybe they could throw in Robin Lopez if we include the rights to Oden.)
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Taking on Childress would be a real blow to our FA prospects this summer. I don't see us being any more than a first round exit even with Nash, so I don't think it's worth it.
 
yuyuza1 said:
In that situation, what else could he have said?
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agreed. Plus, all he said was we had a terrific situation, not that being traded here would be a terrific situation. Big difference.
 
KingSpeed said:
I'll give up Batum for Nash and a chance to win it all this year.
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That's a joke, right?

Nash isn't the "missing link" for this year. We're not a very talented team and replacing Batum with Nash doesn't make us much better- if at all.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
That's a joke, right?

Nash isn't the "missing link" for this year. We're not a very talented team and replacing Batum with Nash doesn't make us much better- if at all.
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Not for Batum but if we still have Batum and Aldridge, it definitely is IMO. People aren't looking at the big picture here. Nash is a proven leader and dealt from the perimeter. He would open so many things up for our offense. You think lob city with miller? Nash tosses lobs to perfection.
 
Keep LaMarcus, Nic, and Camby. Give them whatever else they want. We have to keep Camby to have any playoff success this season.
 
Yep. If you deal for Nash, you are in "win now" mindset. You can't really trade Camby, Aldridge, Wallace or Batum, because those are your four starters you hope to ride into the playoffs. At least without getting similar talent back, which isn't going to happen.

Nash for Felton/EWilliams/Smith [video]http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=89bv8pw[/video], assuming the Suns see a prize in Williams in his 20 PER (in 107 career NBA minutes).

If you throw in Childress or Frye, you pretty much have to toss in Matthews, which is similar money/similar contract, but more talent.
 
tlongII said:
Keep LaMarcus, Nic, and Camby. Give them whatever else they want. We have to keep Camby to have any playoff success this season.
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I agree. Camby will be very important to this franchise IMO.
 
We need an eight man rotation. I think that's the limit to nates sub style. If you give him too much talent, he will fuck it up!
 
magnifier661 said:
We need an eight man rotation. I think that's the limit to nates sub style. If you give him too much talent, he will fuck it up!
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Nash/Batum/Wallace/Aldridge/Camby
With Crawford/Childress(ugh)/Frye off the bench. Crawford plays 1/2. Childress 2/3, and Frye 4/5. Then you have Nolan, Kurt and Joel as longer depth.

That'd be, I think, trading Felton, Wes, Elliott, Babbitt, and Oden maybe?
 
RR7 said:
Nash/Batum/Wallace/Aldridge/Camby
With Crawford/Childress(ugh)/Frye off the bench. Crawford plays 1/2. Childress 2/3, and Frye 4/5. Then you have Nolan, Kurt and Joel as longer depth.

That'd be, I think, trading Felton, Wes, Elliott, Babbitt, and Oden maybe?
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Looks good! It would suck to see e will go, but of we need to "win now" then this would be our best opportunity.

Edit: Nash and Childress = Felton, Matthews and Babbitt or e will.
 
Nash comes here, Nate will somehow figure out how to make him produce the worst stats in his NBA career. I say NO to Nash. We need a new coach, first.
 
blue32 said:
Nash comes here, Nate will somehow figure out how to make him produce the worst stats in his NBA career. I say NO to Nash. We need a new coach, first.
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Patience my young padewa! Of Nate makes Nash look like shit, Nate will be fired. That's a guarantee.
 
Trading Williams and cap space for a chance to get to the second round is not a good business model. Nash improves us for sure, but not that much
 
Just say no to childress. Frye, warrick and nash instead.
 
Look how much of a difference cp3 made for clips. A superstar pg makes a big impact.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Trading Williams and cap space for a chance to get to the second round is not a good business model. Nash improves us for sure, but not that much
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Nash improves the Blazers a ton. The upgrade from Felton to Nash is massive. Felton is terrible (like, barely NBA-caliber) and Nash is playing extremely well.

I'm not that big of a believer in cap space (stars rarely switch teams in free agency and, when they do, it's usually to a significantly larger market than Portland), so I'd definitely be willing to bring in Nash if all it cost was Williams and cap space. A team of Nash, Batum, Wallace, Aldridge and Camby has solid potential to reach the Western Conference Finals and a dark horse chance to reach the Finals, as the Western Conference is far from great. Nash would improve the offense by leaps and bounds and his defensive weakness would be mitigated a lot by having four good to great defenders in the other starters.
 
All that said, extrapolating idle discussion from Nash about being open to a trade and Portland being a good situation into "Portland now has a legitimate chance to trade for Nash without giving up either of their best two players" is a real stretch.
 
Minstrel said:
Nash improves the Blazers a ton. The upgrade from Felton to Nash is massive. Felton is terrible (like, barely NBA-caliber) and Nash is playing extremely well.

I'm not that big of a believer in cap space (stars rarely switch teams in free agency and, when they do, it's usually to a significantly larger market than Portland), so I'd definitely be willing to bring in Nash if all it cost was Williams and cap space. A team of Nash, Batum, Wallace, Aldridge and Camby has solid potential to reach the Western Conference Finals and a dark horse chance to reach the Finals, as the Western Conference is far from great. Nash would improve the offense by leaps and bounds and his defensive weakness would be mitigated a lot by having four good to great defenders in the other starters.
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A team of Nash, Wallace, Batum, Aldridge and Camby? Are we getting Nash for free? I don't think Nash alone helps us enough. I know I am in the minority however.
 
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