Sports Guy's crazy trade idea: Yao to Warriors
Bill Simmons is playing around on the ESPN trade machine and coming up with crazy three- and four-team trades centered around the Chris Paul trade demand. One of his ideas involves the Warriors and has Yao Ming coming to GS for Biedrins, Vlad and Wright. It's just an idea, not even a rumor, but would you get behind that?
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Yeah, Yao would be the best player we have had since...... Mullin or Webber.
Look at our top 3 players: Yao, Lee, Curry
One of the best trio’s in the league.
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by GovernorStephCurry on Jul 24, 2010 11:13 AM PDT reply actions
Yao would be the best player we have had since...... Mullin or Webber.??
The Yao of 5 years ago could have been but the Yao of today is damaged goods. How much longer will he hold up and can he still get up and down the floor before the 24 second clock runs out?
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by Skeptic con Urquell on Jul 24, 2010 11:21 AM PDT reply actions
Incredibly crazy, but I would do it.
Curry, Ellis, Wright, Lee, and Yao would be a very formidable lineup if healthy. I think that team could compete with the Lakers to be honest. Say they matched up in the playoffs. Curry matched up with Fisher, Kobe matched up with Ellis (if Ellis were getting killed by Kobe on defense, then bring in Williams), Wright matched up with Artest, Lee matched up with Gasol, and Yao matched up with Bynum. That would be a good series.
I would do it in a heartbeat
if I knew that Yao was healthy and ready to play like days of old. Hell I’d even get rid of Nelson to have a more accommodating coach for Yao’s play style. Yao when he was healthy was one of the best players in the league. This is the problem, Yao may never be the same.
by brutusbrutus on Jul 24, 2010 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
I disagree
You absolute don’t want to extend Yao. You need to make sure he’s ok. It’s in both the player’s and the team’s be interest to let him play out the year and prove he back. Hell the knock on him his whole career has been him staying healthy. I’d much rather risk losing him than extend him and have him be a shell of himself or perhaps worse done for his career. If nothing else he’d be a huge salary dump if we didn’t extend him.
A Sonics fan without a team... but after 7 seasons now of GS Warriors season tickets have convinced me to adopt the boys from Oakland.
If Yao is around down the road, this trade is a steal for us. It won’t happen, though, for that reason.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Jul 24, 2010 1:00 PM PDT reply actions
Yao, Lee, Lin
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by ILoveWarriorsGirls on Jul 24, 2010 1:05 PM PDT reply actions
Always smart....
…. to trade a younger player who missed 49 games due to a new injury for an older player who missed 82 games last year due to a chronic issue.
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I would do it, if we weren't dealing with Morey.
If Morey’s willing to trade him, he’s probably finished (McGrady).
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by GovernorStephCurry on Jul 24, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I would do it. It would instantly make us the front runners in the free agent race next season!
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I’d do it in a heart beat, we’d get Yao without losing Monta which would be great giving us a lineup with Yao,Lee,DW,Curry and Monta. That is a great lineup
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This proposed lineup is the weirdest I’ve ever heard of. I would love an even moderately healthy Yao, but he would instantly transform the entire team into an extremely slow, defensive-minded, half-court offense-leaning team. It’s really hard to imagine!
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by The Bimbo Coles Experience on Jul 24, 2010 6:26 PM PDT reply actions
I think you could run the fastbreak with him
He’d gobble up tons of rebounds and start the outlet pretty quickly.
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by GovernorStephCurry on Jul 24, 2010 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions
This seems like a no-brainer to me. Yao’s health is a gamble, but frankly so is Biedrins’ health. Yes Biedrins is much younger and has stayed a lot healthier than Yao since ‘04, but Yao is a lot better than the very best we’ve seen from Biedrins here. I’m not eager to just give Wright away, but if thats basically all we have to give up to go from betting on Biedrins to betting on Yao it doesn’t seem like much at all to me.
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Biedrins health
is like rolling about a 3 on a six-sided die. Yao’s health is like trying to roll 11+ on 2 six-sided dice. Biedrins will probably be somewhat healthy. Yao is very likely be unhealthy.
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by Reverend_Randy on Jul 24, 2010 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions
The question that is important:
Will 50-60 games of Yao be as valuable as 70 games of Biedrins?
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by GovernorStephCurry on Jul 24, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Yao...
…has missed almost 40% of his games the last four years, due almost exclusively to leg injuries, and he’s enormous and enormously overworked. If he manages to keep playing NBA ball the next four to five years, I expect it to be a Bill Walton sort of situation, and not terribly pretty to watch.
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