What the Camby firesale means to us.

lotsa people we don’t want

Edit:
Knicks: NO ONE

Having a whole pile of cap space could be a great benefit for us. I trust KP to make solid moves and be planning well into the future. I don’t think he would sign a mediocre free agent just because we had some extra cap space. KP with cap flexibilty and his pritch-slapping glove are a scary combination. Sometimes I imagine that Pritchslaps look like an 18th century glove slap that leads to a pistol duel.

Also, I think the Camby firesell means a new batch of Western conference rankings in the fanposts.

Would be like doing your grocery shoping at a toxic waste dump,the only ones on this list that do any thing for me are Barbosa,Diaw or Howard.

I just mean players that may have some value that are conceivably available in a salary dump to avoid the lux tax scenario. e.g. no one is dumping Dirk for salary, but they might dump a lower tier player who is a bit overpaid, or a player like Dirk could get traded and we could land a nice player to help facilitate the trade.

I’d take Granger off their hands…

I thought trades had to be within 10% value and there is no way Camby is in the range of a second round pick… if this has been explained I missed it

Hawks (if Josh Smith is re-signed): Joe Johnson could become redundant for them
Celtics: Ray Allen, if the Celts WOO closes and/or Ray loses a step
Bobcats (if Okafor is re-signed): Gerald Wallace, Jason Richardson, ‘Stache (one of those three), and Felton surely is available now, but maybe not later.
Bulls: Hinrich, Nocioni, Larry Hughes – take ‘yer pick
Cavs: Ben Wallace or Big Z, take ‘yer pick
for the Mavs I’d add Jason Terry to your list if their WOO closes (but not Dirk)
Nuggets: Nene, Kenyon Martin, and what the heck, Carmelo (if disgruntled enough)
Pistons: Billups is the obvious candidate with the ascendance of Rodney Stuckey. I’d throw in Richard Hamilton and Tayshaun.
Warriors: Al Harrington (if Maggette makes him expendable)
Rockets: McGrady (blasphemy I know, but he’s very expensive and at some point they may choose to rebuild around Yao)
Pacers: Troy Murphy or Dunleavy’s contracts would probably be available in exchange for a bag of balls
Clips: Kaman or Tim Thomas look like their kindling in the event they go to a fire sale
Grizz: Buy one euro, get one (not named Gasol) free.
Heat: Marcus Banks (hot potato contract?)
Bucks: Mo Williams – is he still on the team? ‘cuz that’s a lotta money for a lotta years for a team that will lose a lotta games. Heck why not Michael Redd?
T’Wolves: Mean Mike Miller or Brian Cardinal could become redundant depending on how their young guys develop (or don’t develop and they start liquidating)
Nets: Vince Carter (obviously) or Devin Harris (depending on what they want around LeBron)
Hornets: Posey in, Peja (or Mo Pete?) out.
Knicks: If they can’t dump Zach or Curry, I could see them trying to unload Jamal Crawford, Quentin Richardson, or Jared Jeffries
The Magic would give KP free trips to Disney World for life if he took Rashard Lewis’ contract off their hands.
Sixers: Dalembert would be expendable if they had a serviceable and cheaper C at that time
Kings: Brad Miller, easily. Also, if any of their young bigs pan out, then take your pick among any of their more expensive bigs as well
OKC: Ridnour or Watson; Collison
Raptors: Kapono.
Jazz: AK47, easily. Okur or Harpring would be longshots, depending on the development of others at their positions
Wizards have lots of long term, expensive, and redundant players, and they might want to shed one or two among the following: Thomas/Daniels/Haywood/Songaila/Stevenson/Blatche; heck, how about Caron Butler for giggles

Except for the Ray Allen scenario I painted, I think we can safely rule out the C/PF/SG possibilities on this list.

So that leaves veteran PG’s like Billups, Daniels, Ridnour/Watson, Mo Williams, Devin Harris, Hinrich, Nelson, Barbosa, Farmar, and maybe Felton or Terry.

At SF, you have Rashard Lewis, Joe Johnson, Gerald Wallace, Nocioni, Tayshaun, Al Harrington, McGrady, Dunleavy, Tim Thomas, Mike Miller, Kapono, Harpring, a Wizard, and maybe AK47 or VC if you consider them SF’s (I know I left some people off that I would consider even more of a longshot than this list).

Boiling it down even further, here are the vets I would like to see KP consider from this list (assuming they would be available at that time at salary-dump prices): Billups, Antonio Daniels, Devin Harris, Tayshaun, McGrady, Joe Johnson, Mike Miller… that’s about it.