The Milwaukee Bucks are shopping Drew Gooden...

[BigGameDamian]

He is 31 years old. Should the Blazers have interest? He might make for a good 6th man and the Blazers could really use hustle and rebounding off the bench.

 

[KingSpeed]

Yes please. But who would they take for him? Babbitt?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Guh.

 

[RR7]

hell no. Why? to take away 7 million in cap space next offseason? Maybe if he comes with Sanders or Henson. Maybe.

 

[B-Roy]

Goodness no.

 

[jlprk]

Not unless he's super-cheap. He sucks. He was a Clipper when Olshey (and Blake and Outlaw) were there, so Olshey knows his worth.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Every team that has ever acquired Drew Gooden is shopping him six months later.

 

[Denny Crane]

I like Gooden. Obviously not for a big cap hit, tho. He'd be a fine 6th man. Plays 4/5 well enough. Not a defensive stud.

 

[Nikolokolus]

What would this be, his 8 billionth trade?

 

[handiman]

He's the post version of Ramon Sessions. Good as a short-term fix, but nothing you want to be tied to contractually.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[Denny Crane]

The guy's got a career 16.7 PER. He's had an 18.8 PER last season, averaging 13.7/6.5 in 26 MPG.

He's owed $6.7M for the next three seasons, including this one.

 

[illmatic99]

ick. Only if MIL throws in a prospect or a pick with him, but they'd probably rather just amnesty him instead.

 

[Denny Crane]

If he's amnestied, he'll be starting for the Heat the next day.

 

[illmatic99]

If he's amnestied, he'll be starting for the Heat the next day.

If MIA wins the bidding war. The only thing I don't want about him is his contract that extends past this upcoming summer. I'd be fine with us throwing a bid at him too.

 

[Denny Crane]

I think he's a very good player. He's a bit old to build around, obviously. If he's amnestied, he can go anywhere he wants for vet minimum while the Bucks pay the rest. He could ask for more than vet minimum and end up getting paid more than the ~$20M he's owed.

I think he goes where he might get a ring.

 

[RR7]

If he's amnestied, he'll be starting for the Heat the next day.

false.

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

The deadline for amnesty this season has passed, so it would have to be next year if that is the route Milwaukee takes.

 

[BigGameDamian]

You guys would not even do this trade. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=can64w6

 

[RR7]

You guys would not even do this trade. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=can64w6

no. 4 million off our cap space next year for Drew Gooden. No thanks.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

I think he's a very good player. He's a bit old to build around, obviously. If he's amnestied, he can go anywhere he wants for vet minimum while the Bucks pay the rest. He could ask for more than vet minimum and end up getting paid more than the ~$20M he's owed.

I think he goes where he might get a ring.

With the new CBA, teams under the cap "bid" on Amnestied players. So in this imaginary scenario there is next to no chance the Heat would get them as they are over the cap and not allowed to be bidders.

 

[Denny Crane]

With the new CBA, teams under the cap "bid" on Amnestied players. So in this imaginary scenario there is next to no chance the Heat would get them as they are over the cap and not allowed to be bidders.

They won't bid on him if he doesn't want to play for them. That's what happened with Elton Brand.

 

[RR7]

They won't bid on him if he doesn't want to play for them. That's what happened with Elton Brand.

Brand was bid on.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

They won't bid on him if he doesn't want to play for them. That's what happened with Elton Brand.

I think you are confused. DAL had the cap room to bid on Brand and they did. Just like Scola and a few others were won by teams with cap room. MIA has no chance at amnestied players for at least the next few years due to their cap space (or lack there-of).

 

[Denny Crane]

There were teams with cap space that refused to bid on Brand because he said he wouldn't sign with them. He wanted to go to Dallas.

 

[RR7]

It wasn't his choice to "sign" with them or not. Unless he wanted to sit out the whole season and forfeit his money. Billups said the same. Didn't stop Clipper from nabbing him.

 

[Denny Crane]

It wasn't his choice to "sign" with them or not. Unless he wanted to sit out the whole season and forfeit his money. Billups said the same. Didn't stop Clipper from nabbing him.

The teams saw what happened with Billups and chose not to bid on Brand.

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2012/07/11/elton-brand-hoping-to-be-claimed-by-mavericks/

League sources indicated that at least three teams with room, the Cavaliers, Bucks and Raptors, would not be making bids on Brand. The Suns and Hornets were contemplating making a bid, according to other league sources. But teams are leery of making bids if Brand doesn’t want to play there. The Clippers had to do some fence-mending with guard Chauncey Billups after they claimed him off of waivers for a little more than $2 million last December, following his amnesty by the Knicks. Billups had wanted to clear amnesty waivers and sign with the Heat.

 

[mook]

I gizoogled him and he turned into Drew Phaten.

 

[Rhal]

There were teams with cap space that refused to bid on Brand because he said he wouldn't sign with them. He wanted to go to Dallas.

There is no signing with amnesty bids. A team wins the bid on a player they are that teams player just like a team can trade a player whereever they want if he doesnt have a no trade clause. The player may not be happy about it and if that player isnt happy about it then he can always pull a carson palmer.

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[RR7]

Hmmm, teams are leery if he doesn't want to play there, and you saying Brand said he won't sign are two different things.