Hammond is a genius

In case you haven't heard, the Bucks have traded Richard Jefferson to the Spurs for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Fabricio Oberto. Their combined age? 108.

Their combined salary that is coming off the books after next year? $11,300,000. Richard Jefferson was due to make 14.2 million this year, so we're already saving 3 million now and 15 million that was due to him the year after. Some folks are already barking about how the Bucks will probably cut one or two of the players they've acquired as well, since their contracts are apparently only partially guaranteed, so we'd end up saving even more cash against the luxury tax this year, but I see that as un-necessary.

Here's what I think the Bucks should do. They can keep any of these 3 players or dump them, who cares really, the only reason they're here is to free up future cap space. I say we pass on both Villanueva and Sessions. Why? They're both mediocre players that are going to get over paid by us or some other team, why put ourselves into another Bobby Simmons type of contract when we can probably get comparable production for much cheaper? Plus there's no way the hairless wonder doesn't go back to dogging it after he gets his contract.

So we just lost RJ and Sessions this year, we might match a CV offer and keep him around one more year, but definitely nothing long term. We would probably draft a PG and have another year of Ridnour starting basketball games for us. Bogut, CV, Mbah a Moute, Redd, Ridnour with Bell, Alexander, and whomever we draft off the bench, plus the nursing home crew and Gadzuric. This team is probably good enough to get 30 wins, so we're gonna have to hope for another injury or two, really. We gotta hope for a shitbomb next year, drop us into a top 3 pick.

After this coming year, if we keep CV for one more year, we're going to be dropping his, Ridnours, and the complete nursing home trio's salary. That's going to be a complete number, minusing Jefferson's contract, Ridnour and CV, of 25 million off the books. Now I'm definitely not saying we're going to get Lebron, or even Melo or Bosh, maybe D-Wade?(ha). But we will have the room and the next year another 25 million comes off with Redd and Gadzuric.

We aren't losing a whole lot of talent, white PG, a probably listless CV after a contract and an unable to defend scoring SG, but we'll clear a cool 50 million off the books in the next two years and if we really bomb next year, which is definitely possible, we'll have a top 3 pick. If we don't get any big name from the 2010 FA class to bite, which I doubt we will, wait it out one more year, bomb again maybe? Back to back top 3 pick opportunities and now we got about 40 million sitting around in cap that we can work with after we evaluate the talent we've drafted onto this team.

I really wanna see what this team looks like in 2-3 years with all these moves. If it's Sessions, Redd, Alexander, CV and Bogut, I'm fucking done with it. If Hammonds uses this money intelligently, we might just have a shot at building something here.