[Dirkenstien]

Originally Posted by quietsavant

A couple of nights ago, after the Milwaukee Bucks game, I was leaving the AAC and on my way to my car, noticed Mike Fisher to the right of me. We had a little chat on our way to our cars. One of the subjects was his opinion on K-mart and whether or not the Kings would pull the trigger on him. He said something to me that I had not thought of before and it made perfect sense. The kings have a plethora of wings as of right now. Yes Howard at the top of his game would be better than some of those wings, but Howard hasn't been at the top of his game, since last season's playoffs. What then, would be the justification for the Kings to swap KMART for Howard. I immediately answered as i'm sure most of you would: Cap space. But wait a second, he proceeded to tell me, if the kings have that cap space, and with the team being that young, they are still a rebuilding team. The cap space will not give them enough to offer a max contract; with that said, they aren't going to be able to lure some big names into that market as of right now. So, you tell me, what good is cap space if you are unable to lure any significant free agent there this off season, and we all know they will not be picking up howard's option.

He didn't say it's a definite that this trade doesn't get done, but he hinted that if it were he, he doesn't see why the Kings would do the trade. That's all. And by the way, that makes the 3rd mavs related person I've had a conversation with in Dallas in less than 6 months. My list? Antoine wright, Quinton ross, mike fisher..

on a side note: KMART had 33pts versus the jazz tonihgt, 4-7 from 3pt land, 9 trips to the line, and 7 rebs. Just saying.

Howard for Martin straight up wouldn't give them enough to make a max offer, but the rumored deal of Howard, Gooden, Barea for Martin and Nocioni would.

As it stands, next season they will be paying $47 mil, but with the expirings of Howard, Gooden, and Barea not only do they get out of Nocioni's ridiculous contract, but they cut their salary by $18 mil. That would bring their total salary down to $29. Assuming a worst case scenario of the salary cap dropping $8 million to $50 million, that still leaves $21 million in cap space which is still enough for a max offer and then some.

Martin had a good game last night, I would love to have that kind of production on the Mavs. But the Kings still lost which brings it to something like 0-9 with Martin and Evans playing together since Martin came back.