First, anyone proposing a trade where the Nets receive more players than they give up needs to stop it unless a buy-out would be really cheap. The Nets already have the maximum number of contracts they can take on...
You need to think of teams that are in "win-now" mode but who are also not "championship caliber" either, so forget about the Lakers and Cavs and Grizzlies and Bobcats and so forth. We're talking about teams slightly above the playoff bubble here, ala the Mavericks of last year. Everybody else thinks they can win with what they have or is contract-dumping for 2010.
Therefore,
Blazers -- they need veteran leadership. Arguably they can afford to give up one of their young studs to get it.
Nets -- follow the same formula as the Kidd/Harris trade --> expiring contract if they can get it, plus a young up-and-comer
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Ager thrown in for the number of players to work out. If this proposal falls through, there's always the backup, Denver Nuggets, with whom Kiki is very familiar. Assuming they don't want to deal Carmelo for Vince straight-up, then how about:
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Yes, that one is less likely. Nets would have to buy out Weems; I threw him in to make the salaries match up. Denver might not be in win-now mode, but Chauncy Billups isn't getting any younger, either. And Melo, VC, and Billups is not that bad, really. Meanwhile, Nets have to take on Nene's contract (which probably makes this trade unlikely to begin with). But they get J.R., whom they like and is young. I admit this one is a stretch, all things considered.
Then there's Utah. They might like their current roster. While I like the idea of persuing Brewer, nothing matches up contractually unless you throw in Kirilenko, and that's just too much firepower to give up to be plausible. And just Kirilenko and Korver together doesn't sound right, either. Where's the young stud?
And the Clippers, Suns and Orlando don't seem to have young players the Nets wound want. I mean does this really invigorate anybody?
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