for the right deal.

id rather have jrich

only trade him with some others for a bonafide star, like kg or if we there was a shot in hell of getting lebron. (but that will never happen). but you get the idea.

Anyone is tradeable, look and the departed one!!!

Besides how many 6'3" Shooting Gaurds are in the Hall of Fame?

High School stats aren't the best, he could have played in a crappy conference, heck at 6' he could have been the tallest guy in the league and played pont forward. 36ppg is legit but how many powerhouse high schools are there in Mississippi and how many great players did he play against? You don't know...Look at Melo, I saw him in High School tourneys out here in Portland and Oden they were studs, but they played top competiton and dropped about 25ppg. Ellis was good, but was he that good?

if in return we added a much needed piece of the puzzle why not we traded j rich didnt we....

Adonal Foyle for Leon Powe ???? i have no clue if the cap reasons work out so can someone tell me??? i wasn't gonna post this in a new diary because it might get deleted so here it is.. Foyle for HomeTown Kid Anyone???

definitely trade Monte for the right price.  Which is the way that Mullin probably looks at it.  Biedrins is more of an untouchable.  For instance, Biedrins probably gets his extension announced in October.  I think Mullin will have Ellis play through the year and see what happens.

I see Ellis as a physically talented undersized SG, who will never have the touch to play PG.  He is good offensively, decent defensively.  He'll get better, but I don't think the sky's the limit for him.  More of a good complimentary player than a star.

I would have been open to a trade. Now that we don't have him, I don't want to let Monta go. I wanna see if he can develope into an all-star. If he works on his handles & passing, I believe that he can.

Monta and Biedrins have the most value in a trade.  Biedrins would be more difficult to replace since big men who can tie own shoes don't come along that often.  If you have a competent big man, it's harder to get someone else to do what he does.  A competent, even pretty good off guard's duties can be more easily replaced or redistributed.  In this sense, Biedrins is much, much, much more valuable.

However, the NBA market for labor doesn't always see this and there's a tendency to value and reward one skill over all others: scoring points.  Contracts covary with scoring average more than anything else, though scoring average in a vacuum doesn't covary with wins that well. There are 20+ppg guards one bad teams.  There are fewer double-double centers on bad teams.

So if there's a sucker who overvalues the fact that Monta is very likely to be that 20ppg player (and they are valuable, just not as valuable as many think and less valuable if they can't rebound and turn the ball over too much), then you make a deal for an above average interior player since you get more bang for your buck that way.

Monta's fun to watch on the court and I think him to be rather helpful, so trading him would hurt, but if he's 'untouchable' then management has already screwed everything up.

Monta for one of the T-Wolves 1st pick. Make it happen. Or trade Harrington too for Al Jefferson. I be happier with one of these trade happening.

I already wrote about this, but I gotta reiterate support for my boy. It's all about Bugeyes.