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Anderson Varejao Trade Ideas

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Im keeping my eye on:

Minnesota
LAC
Brooklyn

In that order.
 
I'd love to snag Kawhi Leonard from the Spurs in a deal involving Varejao.
 
so houston just gave $25M to a center in his mid 20s who, while a good (overrated) defender, is total aids on offnse. and houston is still a likely destination for another center who is older, more injury prone, and almost equally bad on offense? what?

Good teams have more than one viable big man. You left out the part where Houston went all out for Howard to pair with Asik.
 
he has been listed as a SF more thanthis season. he can clearly play 3 in any case

lol dont be so high up on his athletic ability, shorter dudes like wade still push him around. he's got alot of protein to consume before i can place him in the SF position.
 
btw tyreke is falling off the charts, and varejao would look mighty good beside demarcus cousins ;)

/end pipe dream
 
btw tyreke is falling off the charts, and varejao would look mighty good beside demarcus cousins ;)

/end pipe dream

we already have a scorer who is a great passer and trying to learn how to play off the ball... lol, dont need another ... basically dion and tyreke remind me of the same type of player.
 
i think another situation we could get involved in is i okc decides to trade harden. The rockets are really high on him and can offer kmartin. lamb and torontos pick. We could than try and come in as the 3rd team and give them andy for torntos pick.

Props for calling this one. Now the trade is set up -- Varejao to OKC for the Toronto pick, maybe also the Charlotte second rounder.

However, the Cavs would have to take back salary too.
 
Good teams have more than one viable big man. You left out the part where Houston went all out for Howard to pair with Asik.
lol. seriously?

going all in for dwight fucking howard is not at all relevant to pursuing anderson varejao. i mean....i have no idea whatsoever how you could legitimately bring that up wrt: varejao/houston.
 
lol. seriously?

going all in for dwight fucking howard is not at all relevant to pursuing anderson varejao. i mean....i have no idea whatsoever how you could legitimately bring that up wrt: varejao/houston.

I think Keys was mainly observing that, despite their well-advertised interest in Howard, Houston brought in Asik, even though they are both centers and you can't play both together. Certainly, an Asik-Varejao pairing isn't exactly ideal either, but Houston has lots of other PF/C candidates who would pair better with Varejao, plus Houston could cobble together enough salary to match Varejao, though I am not even sure that's even necessary since I think Houston is under the cap by a fair amount, especially after having traded away K-Mart and Lamb (which cuts ~$2M from their cap number this year, per my calculations)....A potential trade with Houston is sort of overtaken by events though, given that Houston no longer has a first round pick in 2013 and due to the Stepien rule wouldn't be able to trade their 2014 pick. I don't know whether the Cavs have any interest in any of the young players on Houston's roster.
 
With this Harden trade, OKC becomes a realistic destination for Varejao. A bunch of draft picks along with Lamb and PJ3. A contender with assets is the perfect storm for an Andy trade.
 
I think Keys was mainly observing that, despite their well-advertised interest in Howard, Houston brought in Asik, even though they are both centers and you can't play both together. Certainly, an Asik-Varejao pairing isn't exactly ideal either, but Houston has lots of other PF/C candidates who would pair better with Varejao, plus Houston could cobble together enough salary to match Varejao, though I am not even sure that's even necessary since I think Houston is under the cap by a fair amount, especially after having traded away K-Mart and Lamb (which cuts ~$2M from their cap number this year, per my calculations)....A potential trade with Houston is sort of overtaken by events though, given that Houston no longer has a first round pick in 2013 and due to the Stepien rule wouldn't be able to trade their 2014 pick. I don't know whether the Cavs have any interest in any of the young players on Houston's roster.
Yes, but my point was all bets are off when Howard is the player in question. If you think he's attainable and there is a reasonable chance he stays, you go for it no matter who you just signed. Them targeting Howard still says absolutely nothing about their potential interest in AV.

Houston simply has no need for Varejao given the signing of Asik. Their frontcourt is jampacked as it is and they didn't just give a bunch of money to Asik only to bring in an older, more injury prone similar player on the downside of his career.

With this Harden trade, OKC becomes a realistic destination for Varejao. A bunch of draft picks along with Lamb and PJ3. A contender with assets is the perfect storm for an Andy trade.
How does the Harden trade make a Varejao/OKC trade any more realistic?
 
varejoa for torontos pick at the deadline would be great. AV would be great for them he is the perfect fit with perkins and serge lets just hop av dosent get hurt
 
I was just thinking what most of you are suggesting. The Harden trade opened a door for the Thunder to pursue Andy at the deadline. They have what the Cavs want in a deal, and I am pretty sure the Thunder have no interest in adding a rookie in next years draft with that Lottery pick (unless its top 5).
 
I was just thinking what most of you are suggesting. The Harden trade opened a door for the Thunder to pursue Andy at the deadline. They have what the Cavs want in a deal, and I am pretty sure the Thunder have no interest in adding a rookie in next years draft with that Lottery pick (unless its top 5).
why. why why why.

why do they need yet another offensively-inept big. they did not trade serge ibaka, nick collison, nor kendrick perkins. they traded james harden.
 
why. why why why.

why do they need yet another offensively-inept big. they did not trade serge ibaka, nick collison, nor kendrick perkins. they traded james harden.

We'll get some time to see if Perkins can still be a Dwight stopper but if not, the Thunder might want to get Perkins out of there.

They aren't going to get much post scoring regardless of whether or not they make a deal for Andy, but I don't see why they wouldn't want an upgrade over Perkins. Their defense as a whole is inconsistent and their bigs' PnR defense is atrocious. Andy would fix that while still being better than Perkins on offense.
 

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