Wizards fan here who comes to visit your site every now and then. Wanted to gauge how your community felt about a three team trade that would help everybody get "their guys". This would be a draft day trade that is completed after July 1. So hear me out.
Theres a a lot of ties between the Wizards, Nuggets, and Kings now that Mike Malone has been hired. Karl's connection to Denver is obvious. Same with Malone and D'Alessandro to Sacramento. Washington is connected to Denver because Tim and Pat Connelly (Suns) both started out in our front office and their younger brother, Joe, is our asst. coach/player development. The final piece is Dan Fegan, who is the agent for John Wall, Martell Webster, Drew Gooden, Gilbert Arenas, and... Demarcus Cousins.
http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=on4gr5r
* This actually doesn't work right now in the trade machine pre-July, but should when Gay's extension decreases his salary by about $7 million and Faried's extension increases his salary by about $6 million.
DEN receives Gay, Otto Porter, Webster, rights to Satoransky, #49
SAC receives Lawson, Chandler, Faried, Nene, #19, 2017 WAS 1st round pick
WAS receives Cousins, Landry
Cousins probably has zero interest in Denver and the rebuild. Denver is probably getting a better player than any they're giving up in the current circumstances. Gay is Malone's guy and played the best ball of his career under him. Porter is a former #3 overall pick and great 3/D, glue guy that had a dominant coming out party in the playoffs. Porter/Gay/Gallinari provides a long, versatile SG/SF/PF trio that can run, defend, and stretch the floor. Satoransky is looking to come over in 2016 (also Jan Vesely's BFF). He's a 24 year old combo guard for FC Barcelona that starts ahead of Alex Abines and Mario Hezonja. Tim Connelly should also have the inside scoop on both young players from his brother. This frees up Denver to take Winslow, Hezonja, or Payne. Extra asset with #49 as sweetener (maybe a stash pick). Webster is just salary filler.
Sacramento is giving up Gay and Cousins, both probably ticked by the Malone firing. Plus both Malone and D'Alessandro that extended them are in Denver. You can never get full value for Cousins, but this is a good package that gets Karl his guys plus draft picks. Lawson and Faried are locked into reasonable contracts. Chandler and Nene are expiring, but would probably re-sign for cheaper with Bird rights next summer. Kings get to draft Cauley-Stein to learn behind Nene. They also get 19 to draft another prospect and another future 1st as an asset. Kings also get to dump the awful Landry deal. That lineup played their best ball under Karl and probably gets the Kings to the playoffs. Vivek, Vlade, and George celebrate. Kings fans enjoy the playoffs and can take solace that they have a future with Lawson, Faried, WCS, 19, and a future 1st. Would adding in a 2019 1st put the package over the top?
Wizards give up all of their young assets (Porter, Satoransky, 19, 49, 2017 1st, maybe 2019 1st), their biggest expiring (Nene), and take back a bad deal (Landry). That's been the typical formula to acquiring a star player. Best friends Wall and Cousins are reunited. Cousins also goes to a city he loves and gets to play PF. Dan Fegan facilitates the deal since the Wizards paid all of his clients. Wizards still have cap space for 2016-17 with only Wall, Cousins, Gortat, Beal's cap hold (RFA), and Landry's stretch provision on the books.
Do Nuggets fans feel satisfied and think this is feasible? Any thoughts or tweaks?
