re: Hornets trade for Willie Green and Jason Smith

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Any chances that this trade was made to work up a package for someone else?

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Green's contract is expiring and Jason Smith has a qualifying offer after this year, so it could be a possibility. But I doubt it since demps wanted to add another big and guard before TC.

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Any chances that this trade was made to work up a package for someone else?

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I doubt it, this lessens our tradeable assets IMO. I think Demps sees this as a win win move like the Juju for Belinelli trade. It's about fit, although I'm a little curious that he's selling this deal as Green being a great combo guard that can backup Paul. Monty's the one that has to make it work on the court, so as long as Demps is running these deals by him first I guess we'll just give them the benefit of the doubt until they prove they don't know what they're doing.