first off i like kurt. but him as our leader and franchise player? upsurd. why? because hes getting old. very old. and you see what happens when we make an aging player i franchise player like hmm Allan Houston. we give him all that money and its gets us a 20 million dollar bench warmer. and kurt who we have until 08 is going to be a 9 million dollar bench warmed eventually. we need to trade kurt this offseason while his trade value is decent enough to get us someone younger and who can help...
heres the thing if you want to keep those core of players. marbury, kurt, craw, sweet and ariza....and let the others run out so we can sign free agents in 3 years its not going to happen. if we keep them well have maybe 6 million left over to spend on free agents and that is NOT a lot. especially when you have to fill the roster on that. so basically are only choices are get rid of everyone....cause even if we trade for expiring contracts with everyone except, marbury, craw, sweet and ariza (which is possible if we used portland and another team)....then well only have 11 or 12 to spend. once again not enough to complete a team with 4 players on it. especially if the point of losing cap is to get bigger stars or better players....our best bet is either trading marbury (which i dont want to do) and the rest for expiring contracts and try to get redd, brown, swift, allen, rahim and then the followin amare or yao bidding spree.
OR we can trade with what we have to improve our roster....i personally think holding on to what we have for the rest of the season is logical. we fight it out this year. then we do some trades in the offseason. Maybe work in some sign and trades with other teams, or trade straight up.
I really think we have a shot at getting abdur-rahim aswell as a bigger center. like kwame brown. we just have to view...ISIAH has to view out the options and see what is out there.... instead of jumping right in for an aging or unproven player like Tim..