and that second trade won’t be done – Paxson won’t like to come off looking like he failed. I’d rather have Miller than Gooden, cap space be damned, and Noah isn’t enough of an apple in my eye. But who knows what Petrie thinks… maybe he likes Gooden and wants Noah. If that’s the case, I won’t cry if it happens, but I’m hardly going to applaud the trade.

I’m not sure how esteemed of Deng I am (haven’t seen enough of him), but leaguewide everyone seems to approve, so I would approve

I agree with you about Noc, and don’t want him.

Has it been proven that Petrie fell in love with Noah? Not saying one way or the other, but I've seen stuff to suggest that he was as equally dismayed (by the non-workout) as he was infatuated with him.

I like the idea of Gooden more than Noc myself, alot more, and if you include Simmons/Noah I guess that’s a doable deal. I still prefer the Cleveland option of trading Artest/Thomas/Moore to Cleveland and bringing back Varejao/Szczerbiak/Snow/1st rounder if only because moving Artest and Thomas is available in this scenario. (Assumign that it actually exists which is a rather large presumption, which is the only reason I’m even discussing the Gooden possibility right now.) That being said moving Kenny Thomas and Ron Artest is not possible to the Bulls without taking Noc back. No thanks.

I’m not sure if you realize this TZ (I didn’t realize it until reading Chad Ford’s comments yesterday), but doing a S&T with Chicago means Deng immediately becomes BYC and the Kings can’t match Deng’s value under that scenario. Plus, I’d rather not have Deng for that dollar amount.

That I think holds some merit: that first trade really thins out the Bulls frontcourt. All they’d have left woul be Miller, Tyrus and Noc. Not really doable for them, is it, unless they plan on picking up a big from somewhere.

Noah and cap space, plus a couple of easily packaged trade pieces.

With the caveat, of course, that it’s not the only deal that gets done this summer.

yes, he’s the type of high-energy, rebounding big man that every team could use. but he’s also a bonehead who can’t make a jumpshot to save his life.

Miller for Gooden, Simmon and Gray. That way we get back a somewhat serviceable backup center to Hawes/Moore

I would love to get Gooden. After Artest leaves the lineup would be:
PG-Udrih/Singletary/Brown
SG-Martin/Garcia/Douby
SF-Salmons/Garcia/Thompson
PF-Gooden/Thompson/Moore/Simmons
C-Hawes/Williams/Moore/Gray

I still don’t like Moore as the PF. It doesn’t seem to fit him. He has no POWER in his power forward. I would use Moore strictly as a backup.

that the uniform story was taken down here, and the language of Abbott’s piece on TrueHoop changed from “Sacramento, Minnesota, and Orlando” to “some teams?” looks like he may have broken a story that was not was not intended to break. whoopsie.