A healthy Chandler playing along side Amar'e could be very dangerous with Steve Nash running the point. Randolph would be a good back up and can split minutes with Amar'e. With Hill on the verge of retirement, they can sign a good free agent this year, possibly Lamar Odom.
A starting five would look like this: Chandler, Stoudemire, Barnes, Barbosa, and Nash. It actually does not seem like much on paper, but this team could be deadly.
The Hornets could have over $20 millions in salary cap space going into the 2010 free agency. Camby and Stackhouse make up for $17 million of that projected $20 million. It is expected that Stack would be bought out of his contract.
Dragic and Taylor would split minutes at the backup point guard but expect the Hornets to shop for a better one. Bringing in Camby is basically bringing in another Chandler. Although Camby was hampered with injuries this year, he still averaged 10.3 PPG on 51% shooting and 11.1 RPG, while playing 31 minutes—much more productive then Tyson.
This would give an intimidating starting five of Camby, West, Posey, Richardson, and Paul. The bench needs to be improved, but they can do that with free agency.
Finally—the Clippers.
They would benefit the most as all the players they are getting $12.5 million salary relief from four of the five players they have in 2010. Stojakovic has three years left on his contract expanding to 2011, which has that great draft class that I have already gone over. That's $12.5 million off the cap. There is also the possibility that they won't sign some of the free agents this year.
Stojakovic could help develop the jumpers of basically everybody on the team. Antonio Daniels is a good back up PG and will complement Baron Davis splitting minutes with him.
A starting five would look like this: Chris Kamen, Blake Griffin, Al Thornton, Eric Gordon, and Baron Davis. That is a great rebuilding team, not to mention a possible playoff contender.
Who knows, this would be great in my opinion. Now, let's just hope the GMs read B/R articles.
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