Kevin Martin traded to Houston

[.GR]

McGraw writes: "The question now is whether Sacramento will hang on to McGrady or trade him again before the deadline hits. The Bulls are still intent on trading Kirk Hinrich and opening even more cap room for the summer. That's their top priority in the final hours before the deadline. Since the Kings saved money by trading Martin, maybe they'd be interested in Hinrich, who could be a nice veteran mentor to rookie guard Tyreke Evans. A couple of combinations would work -- Hinrich, Brad Miller and Jannero Pargo, or Hinrich, Tyrus Thomas, Jerome James and Pargo."

 

[.GR]

How badly does Arn Tellem, agent for Tracy McGrady, want his client to be traded to the Knicks? So badly he's threatening the Kings, who traded for T-Mac in the wee hours, with "fireworks" if they won't pass him on to New York. Tellem got Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski to write a piece on it as trade deadline fever reaches insane temperatures. Tellem, of course, isn't directly quoted. But you'd be a fool to think anyone other Tellem (or one of his deputies) has planted the story.

It's all naked and hilarious. The Kings, by all indications, could care less what T-Mac and his camp thinks as of 3:01 p.m ET today. McGrady was acquired either to give the Kings a dose of cap space -- if McGrady is kept after the deadline, the Kings will be looking at rougly $20 million in cap space this summer -- or to flip him to New York or Chicago for assets, like Jordan Hill or draft picks. If the resolution is the former, the Kings will almost assuredly waive McGrady by the end of the week. What exactly can McGrady hold over the team's head? It's not as if the Kings traded for him as a player. He's a contract, bubs, a piece of paper.

But wait! There's a catch! And it's name is Tyreke Evans, a Tellem client. Tellem or his middleman intimates to Woj that perhaps failing to send McGrady to New York could complicate the relationship between Evans and the team. But from my vantage point, Tellem has never been the most important person in Evans's stable. In fact, during both of Reke's draft workouts, the guards was accompanied by his brother Reggie -- not Tellem or anyone from Tellem's cadre. Evans and his camp ("Team Tyreke") are far too pragmatic to allow Tellem to insinuate his own grievances into their reality. You think Tracy McGrady's status in 2010 will matter one iota to Evans in 2013, when he'll be ready to sign his second contract? Please.

This is the worst side of deadline -- the part where reputable, legit reporters allow themselves to be used like a toothbrush while everyone's watching.

 

[bestkeptsecret13]

ESPN says it's official pending physicals.

Houston Gets: Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill, Jared Jeffries
Sacramento Gets: Carl Landry, Joey Dorsey, Larry Hughes
New York Gets: Tracy McGrady, Sergio Rodriguez

 

[Giantmetfan07]

YEAAAA!!!!

 

[.GR]

The Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks have agreed to terms that will expand the Houston-Sacramento deal into a three-way trade that lands Tracy McGrady with the Knicks, according to NBA front-office sources.

The Knicks will acquire McGrady and Sergio Rodriguez from Sacramento, sources said.

The Rockets get Kevin Martin, Jordan Hill and Jared Jeffries from New York and will have the right to swap first-round picks with New York in 2011 as well as take on New York's 2012 first-round pick.

Sacramento obtains Houston's Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey and New York's Larry Hughes.

Hell yes! We kept k9! We have so much CAP space now and a great young core to go along with it. Gret day in Sac.

 

[bestkeptsecret13]

Larry Hughes has been traded at the deadline three years in a row now.

 

[.GR]

He's expiring right??? (I hope)

 

[bestkeptsecret13]

He's expiring right??? (I hope)

I think so.

EDIT: Yeah, he's around $14 M expiring.

 

[.GR]

Nice. We have about 25m in CAP space next year at the current CAP.

 

[Yankees2772]

Yeah, but Jeffries isn't.

We're giving up our 2012 pick, and swap of 2011 with Houston. It doesn;t matter with my logic:

If we get LeBron and his choice of sidekick - our pick those years won't be that great at all, and thus a good move.

If we don't get LeBron and co, we've ###### ourselves so much these past few years and this year that it won't even matter because we'd already be disbanded by 2011/12.

 

[.GR]

Yeah, but Jeffries isn't.

We're not taking on Jeffries, Houston is...

 

[Yankees2772]

I'm aware, I was just stating.

 

[jarrod2323]

so Kenny Thomas was left out?? that sucks.

but glad HOU got Hill out of it

 

[.GR]

so Kenny Thomas was left out?? that sucks.

but glad HOU got Hill out of it

Yeah, I'm guessing he was left out since you guys got the picks and Hill.

 

[VC15]

So we'll have some competition in terms of CAP space... That's all this deal does, no team got any better out of this.

 

[.GR]

We did. Because we couldn't win with Kmart and Reke both on the floor. I would have been okay with a straight up swap of Landry and Martin even probably.

 

[.GR]

Tyreke Evans, Beno Udrih
Omri Casspi, Francisco Garcia
Donte Greene, Andres Nocioni
Carl Landry, Jon Brockman
Jason Thompson, Spencer Hawes

25m in CAP space. Top 10 pick.

<3

 

[jarrod2323]

Actually, Houston gets better right now.
TMac was not gonna play at all for the rest of the season - KMart will.
Dorsey was just recently called up from NBDL
Landry was good, but he was a rotational front court player, and with KMart now, this allows Ariza to play primarily at SF and Battier to rotate more at PF. HOU loses Landry's scoring, but gains Battier's defense in the post and KMart's offense.

 

[.GR]

Kevin Martin will be on the Jim Kozimor Show to say goodbye to Sacramento. Tune in at noon on KHTK 1140 AM if you want to listen.

=/ Kinda sad. Still not gunna take down my Kmart jersey off the wall. Still have my Bibby one up too.

 

[elcheato]

Hopefully the Knicks get no stars in FA, and just gave up lottos.