Sonics interested in Kurt Thomas?

[Cheesebeef]

Would Wilcox give the Suns a better chance at the championship than KT?

not unless PJ Brown was signed afterward. If we're gonna get past SA, we're gonna need ONE of those guys to actually play some minutes.

 

[Kel Varnsen]

azcentral is reporting the trade.

 

[Cheesebeef]

A straight KT for Wilcox works financially. KT is making $8.091 million for one year. Wilcox is making $6.5 million this year and $6.75 next year. (Difference is $1.591 which is 24.5% of Wilcox's salary). This saves the Suns money this year but creaes an extra year of costs.



Hoopshype shows the Sonics at $49.5 million next year if they keep Wilcox. Considering next year is a good year for going after free agents, this might make some sense for them. At only $55 million, they are not at risk for luxury tax this year.

From the Seattle side, they clear space for free agency in 2008 while getting some veteran work on the inside. This is not much of a running team so they'd get a lot more productivity from KT during the season than the Suns.

From the Suns side, Wilcox would probably play a lot more than KT because he's better suited to Suns basketball. His second year contract is stil in luxury tax world, but they face paying a lot to replace KT next summer anyway.

I'm not usually very supportive of trade proposals, but this looks at least vaguely feasible.

wow.

 

[fordronken]

You don't think this team would dump KT's contract if they could?

As a matter of fact I do.

 

[Folster]

wow.

He was close Cheese.

 

[Cheesebeef]

He was close Cheese.

lol.

 

[Folster]

Suns fan pipe dream:
KT for Wilcox

Reality:
KT + two unprotected 1st rounders for a conditional second rounder.

The funny thing is that the pipe dream was actually called realistic by the poster.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Suns fan pipe dream:
KT for Wilcox

Reality:
KT + two unprotected 1st rounders for a conditional second rounder.

The funny thing is that the pipe dream was actually called realistic by the poster.

I realized a long time that said poster's reality is very different from mine.

 

[fordronken]

Ah! I just remembered that the Sonics have a 9 million dollar trade exception from the Rashard Lewis trade. So, we could just send them KT and get back a second rounder or something.

This is depressing to look back at.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

fordoken can predict a milder version of the cruel future! Burn him!