Under this plan keeping Josh Powell and Q is also not a problem

Davis/Livingston
Mobley/Gordon/Ross (that’s for you Jax)
Thornton/Thomas/Williams
Brand/Powell
Kaman/Fazekas

With the MLE still to spend. Tinsley? Anthony Johnson? Chris Anderson?

...but I don’t believe you can package another player (Knight in this case) when trading a signed and traded player (Maggette).

there’s another explanation – that all of this is actually something that Falk orchestrated to get EB a far higher payout then he would have otherwise had. Would be Machiavellian.

Just reminding you that you’re allowed to enjoy the Clippers good fortune now. Really, it’s okay to accept the idea that Brand, Baron, and Kaman are going to be on the court together until my daughter graduates from college—and she doesn’t start until the fall.

You might also want to comment on the Stuckey/Thornton situation now. Are you okay with the Thornton pick at this point? You weren’t wrong about Stuckey, but it’s nice that things have worked out.

This thread is about getting greedy. Maybe you can make a suggestion of what you would like for Phase Two. You’ll notice that John R has provided the blueprint here for the Clippers to resign Maggette. Fairly expansive of him, wouldn’t you say?

Just tell us what you want.

Almost 48 hours since the Phase Two post, do any of us think that this might actually be happening?

I don’t see any signs myself. Reading through this again now, I note the Show’s statement: “who do we need to tell to get this done?”

I think we’re counting on Falk, and I feel like I completely misinterpreted Jax’ statement. I thought he was saying that Falk set up the Baron scenario so that EB could get more money from the Warriors or the Sixers, but he obviously meant the Clippers. Maybe I knew that, I’m not sure—too much of that unfiltered kool aid.

The thing that has happened in the meantime is that there is an active market for Maggette’s services. A few more dominoes have fallen (Arenas and maybe Smith? make additions), and the fact that Brand doesn’t seem to be leaving the Clips is settling in. SAS, Boston, and Cleveland want him, but these are MLE deals. The Warriors could get him, but the key is probably to figure out what the Warriors really want and need. Those competitive teams don’t seem to want to give up anything that the Warriors would want. But John R is out in front of this by talking about Detroit, and Orlando is a good candidate too, although it’s still hard to see Maggette playing alongside Rashard Lewis. It’s probably better to discuss deals for teams that know Maggette is an SF, and nobody should pay him $40-50 mill to play SG for five years.

It also sounds like the Warriors are ready to throw in the Harrington piece and there’s Peitrus out there too.

I don’t know. Maybe one of the experts can analyze how this might work at this point, or if it’s definitely not going to happen. We can worry about who the Clips might get with the MLE later, but first there has to be a big deal and they have to get the rights back.

All quiet on the front lines. Is it that important to all of these guys to eat hot dogs and watch fireworks, when there are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake?

It looks sound enough, everyone gets something they want. Clips get Baron and their MLE and Brand and Livingston’s bird rights. GS gets their choice of a great player. And Detroit gets a very very good scorer and all around player in Maggette(and they get a third string guard in Knight). My only problem with this deal is it help GS a little too much and we have to compete with them for a playoff spot. But other than that it seems good to me. But there may be a little problem with the execution of it. The Clippers staff would have to get the plan in order for it to work and they haven’t always been able to execute well in the past (example our failed try at signing Bryant and Arenas i years past). But if we can pull this off it will definitely be good for all team involved.