No one knows the guy's source, but he's a poster at Pelicans Report that definitely has inside info. He posted about Ryno having a herniated disk the day before news broke, said that we were targeting Asik/Hawes a few weeks ago, and made some other calls.

With regards to this trade:

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Sam Amick: Rockets deal likely happens after July moratorium (10th) because NO will likely use players w/ nonguaranteed $ to match Asik's $8.3 million Twitter @sam_amick
Rumors tagsHouston Rockets, New Orleans Pelicans, Trade

This would allow us to keep the MLE if we go this route, but it would involve getting rid of all of our cheap depth.

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Posted by TigerinATL

Member since Feb 2005

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Posted on 6/26/14 at 9:54 am to THRILLHO

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This would allow us to keep the MLE if we go this route, but it would involve getting rid of all of our cheap depth.

Ely is gone, Miller and Babbit are easily replaced, and if you have Asik and keep Jason Smith, one of Ajinca and Withey were never going to play anyway. Rivers and the #10 pick he represents would be the main loss. If you could somehow get Boston's #17 in exchange for him I'd call it a good deal.

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Posted by Colonel Flagg

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Posted on 6/26/14 at 9:56 am to THRILLHO

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This would allow us to keep the MLE if we go this route, but it would involve getting rid of all of our cheap depth.

So of non guaranteed contracts the only somewhat big loss would be Rivers. If Loomis works his magic an the roster is this:

Holiday
Gordon
Evans
Davis
Anderson
Asik
MLE
Rivers

That would be impressive.

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