re: The Eric Gordon Trade Machine Game

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I figured changes were being made in Minnesota to make Love happy. Maybe not.

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Darren Wolfson @DarrenWolfson about 22 minutes ago

Spoke w/ Flip post-presser. Asked if Love can be main guy on really good team. Praised Love, but tap danced around a direct answer. #twolves

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And in David Kahn's Exit Interview he made it sound like Love had some lockerroom problems.

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A. ... And my feelings toward Kevin, frankly, I really like him. And we've had some really productive conversation about the steps he needs to take to win back the respect and admiration of his teammates and coaches. It's almost ridiculous how much attention is paid to my relationship with him. In terms of import, it has no bearing at end of the day whether he'll be happy here and whether organization will be happy with him. It's much more important for him to forge really meaningful relationships with his teammates and coaches.

Q. Why did you say he needs to win back the respect of his teammates?

A. I think there's some work for him to be done in terms of, he didn't play very much this year, right? And I think there's a void there because of that. Many of those guys really fought their way back from injury, sometimes multiple injuries. He had two broken hands. He came back once, didn't play well, broke his hand again and then decided to have his knee done at the end of the year when the pain was such. I think he has some work to do in the locker room, and I believe he will. I certainly don't want that to come across negatively. I believe he will and I believe he's on the right path.

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I figured it'd be at least another year before they decided to move Love, but I wonder if he is indeed attainable now.

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Gordon and Lopez going to Sac Town

Cousins, Thornton, and Salmons coming here

We swap 1sts in this draft (assuming that we have the higher pick). Better?


I think I'm obsessed with Cousins.

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but I wonder if he is indeed attainable now.

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He probably is, but for an exceedingly high price.

Looking at Minny's roster, they don't have any ridiculously bad contracts, so we can't get value by taking on their garbage (unless they feel they want to get rid of DWill). They also have to feel ok about their Guards with Rubio and Shved, although obviously they can upgrade the 2 and have Shved as the first G off the bench.

Don't know. I really wonder what a realistic trade with them would look like for Love.

And I also have no idea how Love and Davis would work. You'd have to play Love at Center, obviously.

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Gordon and Lopez going to Sac Town

Cousins, Thornton, and Salmons coming here

We swap 1sts in this draft (assuming that we have the higher pick) and they send a top 3 protected 1st in 2014 (to take on Salmons contract).


I think I'm obsessed with Cousins.

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Salmons only has two years left, and one of those years is a Team Option I think. So really, one year.

No chance they send us a pick in that deal.

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Salmons only has two years left, and one of those years is a Team Option I think. So really, one year.

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My bad. The site I was on didn't have the team option listed.

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Don't worry fellas, I got this.

I think Monty would SIHP and then throw it at Dell.

Thornton comes back to NOLA, Smith back to Philly and Hawes back to Sac. Weird how that turned out

TOR gets: Gordon and Lopez

NO gets: Jonas Valanciunas, Derozan, and Bargniani