Is Varejao a "Dwight stopper" any more than Perkins?
AV being an upgrade over Perkins is debatable when you take into consideration durability and age, both of which favor Perk. Their contracts are pretty similar, with AV being owed like $1-2M more over the next 3 years. Not only that, but they are massively rolling the dice. Essentially, they would be replacing two durable guys in Harden and Perk with two of the most injury prone players at their respective positions in Martin and AV. That is a hell of a lot of risk for not a whole lot of upside.
And finally, they already have a far more affordable, slightly worse version of AV in Nick Collison. He is tremendously underrated.
I'm not being confrontational. You suggested the Rockets, which is silly itself for aforementioned reasons; then used their targeting of Howard as some sort of justification for them also targeting AV which is just absurd.
OKC already has depth. Again, their front-court already struggles enough offensively....trading for AV is likely pointless.
As an aside, I kind of find it funny that the reigning WC Champs and team with the brightest future in the league would trade their starting C and second (or third..) most important player.
edit: aside pt 2, but I remember when I was one of the few here pushing for the Cavs to trade AV for Harden. ah, those were the days....