Throwin Randolph Under the Bus

This is my first post.  Love the site!!  It's good to see that I'm not the only one who cares more than he should about this troubled franchise of ours.   I guess we are all masochist on some level. I know myself I have been following since the first run of Nellie ball,  been hooked ever since Timmy's killer crossover, and manute's slingshot bombs from the behind the arc.

But enough reminiscing, I wanted to get some feedback on a Randolph trade idea, of course it always boils down to trade ideas...I like randolph a lot as a player, but I wouldn't be opposed to see him go if we somehow miraculously got better in the end.

I wouldn't throw up in my mouth if we sent: 

Maggette/Randolph for Boozer/Knicks 1st round Pick ( that the Jazz hold)

My logic is this, Utah needs to get something of value for Boozer, and the promise of Randolph and the horrible "old man game" of maggette could be enticing.  Randolph/Maggette are known commodities that would be a good get for an expiring Boozer. Utah unlike us are good team with some holes to fill, and they clearly have a redundancy at the 4 position, and a weakness at the 3. ( They did try to sign Maggette in '03 when he was a restricted free agent, for about $42 mil, so maybe some interest is still there)

On our side we would get out from under maggette's money, and gives us a shot to sign boozer, but compensates us by getting us a possible high lottery pick for losing Randolph if/when boozer walks. I assume no one would mind losing maggette since most fan comments I see about him are pretty negative at best. I know some will say "boozer will never sign here", but the one thing we know about carlos "the bidness man" boozer is that he is a money first guy, and we would be able to pay him the most money. ( i think) Plus it is not insane to think that with him, and the remaining pieces we could be a pretty good team. And if the boozer walks we got cap room, two picks potential high picks next year, and good old Brandan still at the 4, assuming they can keep him on the court.

And on losing Randolph, that what the draft pick is for. The fact is the guy is a project, a talented project who shows flashes of great play, and prolly won't be ready for at least 2-3yrs. But I'm inclined to sell high than low, and we have to admit that the W's don't seem to have the capability to mold this kid, and his stock has only gone down since last year. Nelson and Randolph are a bad mix.  And we know Nellie ain't going anywhere, and we know Coheezy loves paper over championships. So he'll give the fans some late season excitement, and dupe em into re uppin those season tickets.

So as much as i like randolph, if he's gotta go, which I don't wanna see, I would hope we would at least get this much.

Rake me over the coals, shoot holes in my wack logic, just throwing something out here.

Dubs in 2013!!