Q: Hey Doug, I remember you saying that Jorge Garbajosa looks like the “same old Garbo” playing for Khimki. Do you think he’d ever come back to the NBA? And how do you think he was affected by the whole mangled leg/Olympic qualifiers/insurance lawsuit thing? Thanks for your consideration.
Jeff W, Ajax

A: No, Garbo will never come back to the NBA. And I know people chastise me for saying never but that’s the absolute truth here. Affected? Barely at all. He’s making a great living playing basketball still.

Any ideas on how to “burn out” Kapono’s and Hump’s contracts? They might be valuable trade ballast, being potential expiring contracts (ETO in 2010-11).

I don’t think Nate Jawai should be dumped, though, since he’s on a cheap rookie deal and we haven’t seen what he can do yet.

Marquis Daniels is an interesting idea. What do you like about him? It seems like he hasn’t distinguished himself in the last couple seasons.

watsons is good but wingman or more important now

Bargnani/rasho/o’bryant
Bosh/Pops/garb(if he is convince to come back)
Marion/Graham/delfino
DeRozzan/Daniels/parker
Calderon/ukic/banks

- marquis daniels is a free agent this summer so get him a 5mill contract 1year.
- try to get rasho,delfino,garb back for depth
(they wont cost alot) like 10mil only
- NY will draft either curry or Derrozan and its a win win situation so it doesnt matter between the 2 cause they will get to pick one of them
- sign graham in 3mill and parker will stay even for free!, so give hime around 2.2mil
-Ukic and banks can stay just let them develope unless we the magical deal that sends nash here.
parker can just play backup so the pg is solid
- try to sign bosh to an extention if not, try to prove it this season.
- get pops to a 6mill contract and he will very likely sign that cause he hasnt getting paid in mill before
- burn out kapono,hump,douby,jawaii
- its not on the predicted roster but try to get a hard workin scrapy veteran big who can teach bosh abit and prvides leader ship and it can get them tougher
- Sign Marion!!! if they want to be a running team then get a master like him to help you.
…..

- ur left with 2.1mill but 2010 off-season, we will get back 45.7mill so we can get bosh and some other guy like wade,amare,nash etc.

As for Andres Nocioni, Wow, didn’t realize he was making that much money. It seems a bit too much to give up for him, though.

BTW, I disagree that Garbo was a poor man’s Noce. And who knows what Garbo could’ve done had he not broken his leg and got another couple NBA seasons under his belt?

Instead of drafting a SF, go after Stephen Curry at the 2 and he could eventually start for Delfino. This would spread the floor with a dead-eye shooter. And he could play a similar game as Rip so his opposing 2-guard will be spending most of their energy chasing him around on defense rather than exposing his defensive deficiencies on the other end.

He would be the clutch perimeter player we covet.

Jose, Curry, Nocioni, Bosh, Bargnani. Now that is competitive.

Banks and Hump for Earl Watson

Marion (sign and trade) and Kapono and cash in exchange for Nocioni

Watson can give us a potent mix of effective point guards (like the good problem that we had with TJ) and gives Roko all the time he needs to learn from different types of PGs. Watson is effective in short minutes and is capable of running an NBA offence. He has a lot to prove since his demotion in OKC and they want to move him anyways.

Nocioni would give us the toughness and hustle we need. He is what we’re missing. We had a poor man’s version of him in Garbo. Giving up Kapono is a no-brainer since he is a specialist and is a great complement to any package, though his salary is cheap, it’s affordable for the Maloofs to get a shooter that they’ve been missing since Peja. Getting Nocioni out of Marion at the cost of Kapono would be a “fair deal”, much like the TJ for JO deal was.

The Kings would be pretty damn good team next year if they keep their #1 overall pick. Udrih, Martin, Marion, Griffin, Hawes and their bench would look pretty good too.

Or if they get Rubio? Rubio, Martin, Marion, Thompson and Hawes.

We would bring Delfino back and team him with Nocioni and they can both score some points on nights that our B’s aren’t and they are not allergic to the paint. Jose, Delfino, Nocioni, Bosh, and Bargnani. that’s a solid 5.

Draft pick has to be a SF. Our bench would be Watson, Parker, The Rook, Jawai, O’Bryant, Rasho, Ukic with 3 other spots open to fill out with FA’s or draft.

That’s what I think.