This trade ended up quite a bit different than it looked last night. Here is how it ended up: Dallas got Marion, Kris Humphries, Nathan Jawai, Greg Buckner and cash (from Toronto). Toronto got Devean George and Antoine Wright. Memphis got Jerry Stackhouse, a 2015 second round pick (from Toronto) and cash (from Dallas). Finally Orlando got a 7 million trade exception. Pretty complicated for something that started with nothing but the rights to sign Shawn Marion to a contract.
I covered the Dallas angle last night. All of the smaller pieces have changed since then and make the picture much clearer as to why Memphis and Toronto were interested in doing this deal. Toronto gets to keep their mid level exception by having Orlando agree to a sign and trade instead of just signing Turkoglu from them. Memphis gains 4 million in 2010 cap money by moving Buckner. For Dallas, Humphries and Jawai will fill the backup PF role that Brandon Bass is leaving while Wright was pretty redundant with Josh Howard and Jason Terry playing SG. For Toronto he might start and should at least play significant minutes. A similar deal was then worked with Memphis who received Stackhouse and sent Greg Buckner packing to Dallas. Buckner has only 1 million guaranteed on his contract so Dallas will buy him out. The interesting thing is that Humphries and Jawai have a couple of years left on their contracts while Wright and George both expire this year. So Dallas took on 5 million (Jawai has a team option that could make this smaller) in 2010 in order to pay Shawn Marion 8 million dollars a year for 5 years. It is really nice for Dallas to have an owner that is willing to take on money to bring in important piece like Marion back. Here is how they end up:
Jason Kidd/Juan Jose Barea
Josh Howard/Jason Terry/Quinton Ross
Shawn Marion/Matt Carroll/Shawne Williams
Dirk Nowitzki/Kris Humphries/Nathan Jawai/Ryan Hollins
Marcin Gortat/Erick Dampier
and Toronto (They still have the midlevel):
Jose Calderon/Roko Leni Ukic/Marcus Banks
Antoine Wright/Demar DeRozan/Quincy Douby
Hedo Turkoglu/Devean George
Chris Bosh/Pops Mensa Bonsu/Reggie Evans
Andrea Bargnani
They don't have a center. I don't know who actually fills this spot but the starting lineup is probably set.
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