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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">VINCE CARTER OR RICHARD JEFFERSON, NETS: With Isiah Thomas's checkbook privileges apparently revoked, this may be the midseason that the team across the river is the one making the big splash.
I've been arguing since Nenad Krstic went down that it was time for the Nets to consider a major makeover. If they go that route, trading Carter seems the easiest way to do it since since he's in the final year of his contract. As far as possible partners, Orlando makes the most sense — the Magic could use Carter's Bird rights to re-sign him and still keep Darko Milicic this summer, Grant Hill's expiring contract can offset Carter's in a trade and give the Nets cap relief, and the Magic have several good young players who could be part of the ransom.
But one sage in the know advised me of a different possibility — trading Jefferson, whose cap number is much easier for other teams to match. It would have to be the right offer (i.e., one involving Kevin Garnett or a similar wattage of superstar) because the Nets would be risking losing Carter for nothing in the off-season, but don't automatically presume that if the Nets blow things up, Carter's the first one out the door.</div>
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Seems like Hollinger thinks that RJ or VC will be one of the most likely players to be traded this season.
I've been arguing since Nenad Krstic went down that it was time for the Nets to consider a major makeover. If they go that route, trading Carter seems the easiest way to do it since since he's in the final year of his contract. As far as possible partners, Orlando makes the most sense — the Magic could use Carter's Bird rights to re-sign him and still keep Darko Milicic this summer, Grant Hill's expiring contract can offset Carter's in a trade and give the Nets cap relief, and the Magic have several good young players who could be part of the ransom.
But one sage in the know advised me of a different possibility — trading Jefferson, whose cap number is much easier for other teams to match. It would have to be the right offer (i.e., one involving Kevin Garnett or a similar wattage of superstar) because the Nets would be risking losing Carter for nothing in the off-season, but don't automatically presume that if the Nets blow things up, Carter's the first one out the door.</div>
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Seems like Hollinger thinks that RJ or VC will be one of the most likely players to be traded this season.
