http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/212037/Rockets_Would_Have_Taken_Baron_No_1_Pick_For_Yao
As enticing as that draft pick would have been, what a cluster^%$# of a situation that would have created. Davis's big contract, along with relegating Lowry to the bench or a super-small line-up, plus another old guy with the Youth of the Rockets team.
Just seems like a bad, bad fit.
The only thing I could think of is that this was a contingency type of deal. Where IF Morey could nab a superstar in a trade, perhaps also trading Lowry in the process, then he would have taken on BDiddy to complete the line-up. Even then...eesh.
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The Clippers could have traded Baron Davis and their number one pick in the 2011 NBA Draft that was used to acquire Mo Williams and Jamario Moon in a similar deal for the expiring contract of Yao Ming, according to Bill Simmons.
As enticing as that draft pick would have been, what a cluster^%$# of a situation that would have created. Davis's big contract, along with relegating Lowry to the bench or a super-small line-up, plus another old guy with the Youth of the Rockets team.
Just seems like a bad, bad fit.
The only thing I could think of is that this was a contingency type of deal. Where IF Morey could nab a superstar in a trade, perhaps also trading Lowry in the process, then he would have taken on BDiddy to complete the line-up. Even then...eesh.