hsandhu

They have agreed to dump hinrich's salary to washington.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nb...ory?id=5324240

They have room for two max guys now:

derrick rose
luol deng
lebron james
chris bosh
joakim noah

Laker fans, there will be no three-peat.

Gaddabout

Wow. Stoudemire's camp just did a few cartwheels. Demand goes up while supply remains the same. Chicago HAS to make two big moves in free agency now.

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82CardsGrad

Heard it's a good bet that Joe Johnson is one who will end up in Chi-Town.

binkar

Bosh won't sign with Lebron. He wants to be the #1 option...JMO.

82CardsGrad

IMHO, Lebron is going to the Knicks or Nets... He'd be crazy not to. If Miami believes they can play Bosh at center, could Miami then take a run at both Bosh and Amare?? Hmmmm.....

Irish

Bosh AND Stoudemire and Wade? This is not fantasy basketball. IMHO, the chemistry looks very very doubtful

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82CardsGrad

Seems like a stretch for sure... however, Boston did find a way to make it work with Garnett, Pearce and Ray Allen... should be interesting.

chickenhead

The weirdest thing to me is, if Chicago does build another championship contender, that it took them twelve years to do it "overnight." It's the third biggest city and home to the second greatest NBA run ever. I wouldn't have thought it would take this long.

Of course, the Knicks haven't won in almost 40 years, so there you go.

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Divide Et Impera

Man, what about an Amare s&t for Taj Gibson and James Johnson, straight up.

We'd pick up two youg forwards and save like $12 million, whereas CHI getting Stoudemire in this manner actually maintains about $3 million in additional cap space that they wouldn't have if they had to sign him outright. I don't know if a s&t can be that dramatic, but if it could work that way and we could net some young assets in an area of need anyways, we'd be better for it and we'd have a few million in cap space to play with....

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Divide Et Impera

CHI:

Rose-FA-Deng-Stoudemire-Noah

No bench whatsoever, but if they got, say, Lebron, vet bench and role player FAs would flock to CHI....

PHX:

Nash-JRich-Hill-Gibson-Lopez

Dragic-Barbosa-Johnson-Lou-Clark + cap space

That's a fine start going into next season, IMO....

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Gaddabout

That's not the worst trade I've read here. Gibson is instant improvement at defense but he doesn't rebound any better than Amare does. He's even more deficient at it. And rebounding = defense. Period.

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bankybruce

Weird then that LeBron just enrolled his kid in a private School in Chicago.

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bankybruce

I can not wait for next season.

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bankybruce

I'll take LeBron and Boozer then.

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82CardsGrad

Guess we'll see find out...