you are wrong. first, what potential is there left in K-mart? you know what you get with k-mart. a solid scorer, bad defender and was starting to become a whiny, pouting cancer.

let’s look at what the kings got:

landry, currently scoring 16+ a game, rebounding 6ish a game and shooting 54% and (0% from 3pt range). that last two stats tells me he plays down low. admittedly i don’t know much about him, but from what i hear he is a solid defender and if the shooting percentages are correct, then he spends time down low. something this team needs.

larry hughes, if you think the kings want hughes, then let me point you to a bid orange-ish bridge in san francisco that is for sale. hughes is in the final year of his contract and that gives the kings $13 million coming off for salary space. landry is owed the remainder of his $3 million for this year and the team has an option to pick him up for next year for another $3 million (which with by the way he is playing, is a steal).

the kings also have k-9 (woof) coming off the books, which is another $9million

between the two, that is $22 million.

dorsey was a throw in.

in my opinion, petrie is collecting solid young talent and is seeing who wants to rise to the top and be solid players around tyreke, who i believe we all think will be the superstar cornerstone of this team. plus with their current record, the kings should get another nice lottery pick. and will have space under the cap for the next couple of years to fill gaps.

so explain to me again how this is a bad trade?

Kmart a superstar? Not.

Landry is probably his equal in every respect, but tougher, still improving, cheaper, and explosive.

Doh?! The Kings are rebuilding. One of these player did NOT belong. Look at last night’s starters – Reke (20), Greene (21), Hawes (21) and Omri (21). With JT (23) their top bench player.

Hughes is an expiring contract – great! They dump $11MM/yr that’s totally wasted on 2nd tier, one-dimensional scorer (Kmart). Garcia/Udrih are fine at the 2 down the stretch. And then we have the draft.

GP doesn’t expect to go after LeBron, D-Wade, etc. The one player in that tier that would be perfect fit is Joe Johnson – and he’s actually worth $11MM+ per year. But that don’t matter – plug in Evan Thomas at the 2, or use a few pieces come draft day to pick up a new 2 (that can play D and hit 3’s) if we go BIG in the draft.

The team just got lots better, with lots more promise.

Guy could be next year’s Tyreke Evans – 6’7" monster that’s played 4 positions in college, handles the rock and can’t be stopped getting to the rim and gobbling up boards. Just a pure baller. Also can’t shoot the 3, but that’s what Casspi and Greene can do from the wing. Just thinking about him and ’Reke in the same backcourt has me forgetting about Kmart already. Goodbye!

Am I the only one that neither likes or dislikes the trade?

I’ll wait and see on this one. If the Kings can do something with the cap room, it is a good trade.

If they can’t, it is a bad or maybe nuetral trade.

Until we see what the Kings do this offseason, no way to judge this deal.

Kevin was a GREAT player when he was ‘right’, it is just that he wasn’t ‘right’ nearly often enough.

The guy was one-dimensional and seemingly fragile – this does not mean that I didn’t like him. I did. A lot.

The issue is that when Martin wasn’t scoring at an incredible clip, he was a liability. I predicted that we would keep Garcia and trade Martin earlier this year for the simple fact that Petrie likes versatility. Garcia can play/guard three positions and is cheaper than Martin. Plus Martin has what I perceive to be inflated value as a bargaining chip.

Enter Landry. Aside from shot-blocking he is EXACTLY what we need. He will be playing more minutes than either Hawes or Thompson. He is great because he doesn’t demand touches. He is the Kevin Martin of interior offense without the fragility. He’s as tough as nails. He’s also younger than Martin. We went big for little, and young for old. This is usually a pretty good combination.

We will probably WIN a couple more games because of this trade, not lose a couple more. I also thing that the salary cap load diminishing for next year is fantastic. We won’t land one of the top 4 probably, but we will be serious players. This was a very good deal.

(In addition, I actually thing that Dorsey sticks.)

You should love Landry – who has the same rebounding, is actually a slight bit tougher because he’s got a little controlled Artest, and he has more offense – he was Rockets closer. Rockets fans adored him.

Landry has flourished in a 6th man role. I say we keep him at 30 min and let Hawes and JT still start.

 JT and Hawes are still young and need to get warmed up like many starters to get into the flow of the game. Landry is a mentally tough player and knows how to get in there and contribute right away.

this was a good trade. you can officially call the “magical/godlike” backcourt of reke and martin a pipe dream, IT WAS GOING NOWHERE.

lets think of the last situation where we traded away a disgruntled, injury prone veteran star. c-webb! he went on to be a decent player but he dropped fast. and before that, mitch ritchmond! traded away for the dominating finesse bruiser(oxymoron?) chris webber. both in the long term were smart trades. dont underestimate gpetries foresight.

Just because GP didn’t broadcast his intentions, don’t think that he wasn’t planning to dump Kmart for all the obvious reasons …. and Landry is probably better fit, at lower cost, with less risk, than Tyrus Thomas. Dude plays hard and scores like mad (55% FG, 80% FT) – only downside is that he doesn’t block shots or Reb crazy well, but ….

Also, D Lee has $10MM salary and will be FA in June. Landry – $3MM. Nice.

why the fuck do the rockets get all the fucking assets? ridiculous. We gave up K-Mart and the much better package to the Rockets, and then we find out on top of that Houston got EVERYTHING good from the Knicks, for the player we were supposed to have fucking acquired by the horrible Martin trade, McGrady. Houston fucking RAPED on this deal. Adelman fucked us in the ass. Horrible.

Landry is a great piece, but for everything we have up, he is not enough. If we are the ones who traded for McGrady, the assets from the Knicks trade should have come OUR way. OUR way. How does Houston supposedly trade T-Mac to use in the Martin trade, and then get every asset from our trading for McGrandy AND us trading McGrady to the Knicks. We get a fucking negartive, Larry Hughes. GARBAGE.

He is an efficient scorer and rebounder but he is not a good defender, per Houston fans.

That is what we should have been after. Cap room does us less good than any other team in the league, because free agents don’t want to come here to get the small market treatment from the league.

league will change big-time over the next 2 years in terms of salary cap/structure – there might be a hard cap and only the A+ players (LeBron, Kobe, Durant, Wade, etc.) will earn $10MM+ … which will make it easier for Kings to keep their own, and they can always acquire by trade, like they did with CWeb & Artest. And once they’re winning & nobody’s overpaying, they’ll be more attractive to FA’s.