Saturday, June 27, 2009
Heat Refute Beasley Story
Posted by Chris Herrington on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM
This didn't take long, and I didn't think it would:
Ira Winderman of the Miami Sun-Sentinel has a story up today refuting the Commercial Appeal's account that the Grizzlies turned down offers from the Miami Heat for Michael Beasley and Mario Chalmers:
The Heat on Saturday said it was the Grizzlies that contacted it and tried to trade the No. 2 pick for Michael Beasley, not the other way around. A Heat spokesman confirmed that it was the Grizzlies who made the overtures.
In addition, that same report in the Commercial Appeal said that the Heat offered starting point guard Mario Chalmers for the No. 27 pick. Again, a Heat spokesman quickly corrected that it was Memphis that attempted to peddle No. 27 pick for Chalmers.
This version, of course, makes a lot more sense.
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Chris:
Assuming the salaries work, which team wouldn't make this deal?
Grizzlies - Get Beasley, Chalmers
Heat - Get Rubio, Gay
Wolves - Get Thabeet
It makes sense on a lot of fronts:
Wolves get Thabeet, who they coveted and only give up Rubio, who doesn't want to play for them anyway and they still have Flynn to play point.
Griz get a power forward and a "back-up" point guard although I think it might be debatable which point guard would start . . .We lose Gay but he is going to ask 10 million next year, which he is not worth.
Heat get a point guard to play along side Wade and give up a forward who Riley doesn't really like anyway. Rubio would definitely want to play for Miami and Heat have enough room to go after Bosh or another power forward next year without having a "controversy" on who is playing the 4. I would really like Chalmers in there but I think I would do it without him from the Grizz point of view.
Thoughts?
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depressed: I hear ya. That would be a great deal.
Thabeet would fill more of a need in Minny than here where he will share major minutes with Gasol. I see Gasol playing 25 to 30 minutes a night as the starter and Thabeet getting the end of the quarters. Haddidi could do that. Our major need is the PF position which Bease would fill. Gay is going to want major bucks and I don't think he is worth that either. We could play Carrol or Hak at the 3. Chalmers at the back up PG. Rubio would love playing in Miami. I think this deal has a lot of merit.
I think that is a smart 3 team deal but I don't see the Heat doing it. And I think the Wolves would want a little more in return (who knows what Kahn is thinking anymore lol)
I think our best bet is someone in Free Agency (Boozer, Marion, Charlie V.) and maybe deal Rudy before the trade if resigning him looks like it will be a lost cause next season.
Depressed, I think that's a fair deal for all involved - which probably means it won't happen!
I'm not a fan of Rudy Gay, but I worry about trading him in a contract year - if he was ever gonna play his ass off, it's this year. I say let him earn his next contract right here. If somebody's crazy enough to pay him $10 million per, he's yours...
Also, how come Tillery isn't getting killed over this? This is a fairly large screw-up. Am I off-base to think it's due to his general ineptitude?
I think Ron's reporting track record is pretty good, actually, but I knew the Miami stuff was wrong even before I KNEW the Miami stuff was wrong. The Chalmers thing, in particular, made no sense from the Heat perspective. I do wonder if initial story will linger. It's certainly still hitting my Google Alerts.
As to the question in the first comment: I don't think the Grizzlies would do that.
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