Question: If the Nets want to unload Deron and the Rockets strike out on Melo
how about Deron for Lin and Asik? Nets could even flip Asik to a third team.
Nets do this in part to start a total rebuild. PP and KG are pretty much done
with them, Blatche and Livingston will seek better deals elsewhere as will
AK47. Lin and Asik and each one year left at 15 mil.
Mike Sutera
Sam: Houston is looking to unload Asik and Lin to make a run at Anthony. I don
’t think you can move Lin and the $15 million backloaded he’s due next
season. But you may be able to move Asik, whom I’ve already heard several
teams, like Atlanta to move Al Horford to four, are pursuing. The Hawks could
look pretty good with that front court. Houston likes “stars,” though
Williams hardly qualifies anymore. I see the Nets have trotted out the bad
ankle excuse for him again, and he’d have broken some 20-yard dash figures
the way he ran away from shots in that clinching game against the Heat. With
Williams 30 this summer, in steep decline, a bad locker room presence and
owed $63 million for the next three years, I don’t see how that would help
the Rockets as much as it would the Nets.
球迷提問：
如果火箭追逐Melo未果，能否用林書豪和Asik換Deron，畢竟如果籃網選擇放棄Deron就
意謂著他們將徹底開始重建，PP和KG肯定會離開，Blatche和Livingston也會追求更好的
合約，都只剩一年合約的林書豪和Asik會是一個不錯的過渡。
NBA官網記者Sam Smith：
「火箭想要卸下Asik和林書豪的合約為追逐Melo放手一搏已經不是秘密，但我不認為他們
能送走身背1500萬美元合約的林書豪。但交易Asik的可能性就大多了，我已經聽說有不少
球隊都對Asik產生了興趣，比如老鷹。老鷹想讓Horford打大前鋒，獲得Asik讓他搭檔
Horford出任球隊中鋒，老鷹的前場看起來會相當不錯。」
「至於Deron，火箭更希望的是增添一名『巨星級』球員，Deron看上去已經遠離這個稱號
了。在對熱火的準決賽中，Deron的低迷表現就已經說明了一切，籃網卻再次拋出了腳踝
傷勢作為他的藉口。但今年夏天他都30歲了，狀態正急劇下滑，又是一個球隊更衣室殺手
，還身背3年6300萬美元的合約，我一點都看不出來他對火箭的幫助能比他在籃網做的多
多少。」
http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/ask-sam-sam-smith-opens-his-mailbag-05162014.html