Trade Proposal 2 –

Utah with Orlando and Utah with Pheonix

Part 1 -

Jazz Trade: Al Jefferson, Paul Milsap, Josh Howard (sign and trade), Andrei Kirelenko (sign & trade)

Jazz Get: JJ Rederick, Dwight Howard, Hedo Turkoglu

Benefit to Jazz:

• Dwight Howard to pair along Derek Favors
• Less log jam at PF/C
• 3 point shooting (Rederick and Turkoglu)

Cost:

• Would hate to see Milsap go
• Do we really have a shot to keep Howard? I think if we got a great point guard like Nash we could keep him content (I don’t think D-Will would come back but if he did could you imagine that?).
• Turkoglue’s contract will be painful
• Another vet to steal time from Burks

Magic get: Jefferson, Milsap, Howard, Kirelenko

Benefit to the Magic:

• Good front court option, two great players for 1
• Escape the Howard nightmare
• get a great underpaid player in Milsap
• still get to have a Howard on their team
• get our bird rights to Kirelenko
• get rid of Turkoglu contract

Variations: Leave Turkoglu and Kirelenko off and use the Golden State pick to make it work for Magic, I would do this if howard signed an extension.

2nd Half of the trade

Jazz Trade: trade exception, Devin Harris, 2nd round pick

Jazz Get: Steve Nash (sign & trade)

Benefit to the Suns:

• something for nothing
• trade exception
• good point guard who is arguably underpaid

PG: Nash, Watson, Tinsley

Wings: Hayward, Rederick, Burkes, Turkoglue, Carrol

PF/C: Howard, Favors, Kanter, Evans