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QUOTE (Daily Herald) If the Bulls are thinking blockbuster, a good place to start would be Denver's Carmelo Anthony, the league's fourth-leading scorer at 25.7 points. Anthony's agent, Calvin Andrews, told both Denver papers Wednesday that his client is not being shopped. But the Nuggets need some sort of makeover. Despite the league's third-highest payroll, Denver barely made the postseason and is 4-20 in playoff games since Anthony arrived in 2003. Maybe acquiring Hinrich and Luol Deng in a sign-and-trade would help the Nuggets establish some semblance of a defensive identity. Another player such as center Stephen Hunter would have to go to the Bulls to make the salaries add up. Anthony would be an interesting addition for the Bulls because he's a top-notch scorer who gets to the foul line and can play inside. If that doesn't work, what about Hinrich and Drew Gooden to the Clippers for Elton Brand? The Clippers could lose Brand next year in free agency, so they might want something now in return. The bad news is the former Bulls' No. 1 pick played just eight games last season because of a torn Achilles. Another power forward who may be available is Charlotte's Emeka Okafor, a restricted free agent. The Bobcats don't have a great need for more guards, however. Hinrich could conceivably go to Seattle for his college roommate, Nick Collison, plus project center Johan Petro. Hopefully Kirk Hinrich has better trade value than we all assume. |
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One other alternate path if you do move Hinrich is to look for a big expiring contract within the next 2 years.
If you can move Hinrich's deal out of the way, then hypothetically, you can move into the 2010 offseason with Gordon, Deng, and Nocioni as your 3 big contracts, since Gooden expires this year and Hughes expires in 2010. And of course, 2010 is the Wade/Melo/Lebron/probably others year where the 2003 draftees all expire. Move Hinrich, and we may well be able to pull off a deal. The Cap by then should be somewhere in the neigbhorhood of $60 million. Nocioni at about $8 million, Deng at about $12, Gordon at about $10, that's only $30 million. Throw in a couple million for each of the draftees and such, don't sign Tyrus or Thabo until after that offseason, and there's potentially $15-$20 mil in cap space. |
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