The New Orleans Hornets, the Houston Rockets, the Indiana Pacers, and the New Jersey Nets have agreed on a blockbuster trade including both Trevor Ariza and Darren Collison. This is how the deal breaks down.
Pacers get: Darren Collison and James Posey
Pacers lose: Troy Murphy
Great deal for the Pacers. They lose basically nothing and get a very promising young point guard and a defensive stopper.
Hornets get: Trevor Ariza
Hornets lose: Darren Collison and James Posey
Dealing Collison was done to show Chris Paul that he is indeed the future of the franchise. That was called into question earlier this summer but now we know for sure that the Hornets have absolutely no intention of losing their star point guard. Losing Posey was purely a salary dump and had nothing to do with talent. My guess is that another deal is coming from the Hornets because that's the only reason to dump that much salary at this point in time.
Rockets get: Courtney Lee
Rockets lose: Trevor Ariza
Are they out of their minds?! I have absolutely no idea why they would trade Ariza to help a conference rival. They get a massively overrated guard in return and in my opinion their playoff hopes just took a nose dive. Ariza had a big contract so that's obviously why they traded him but it still doesn't make much sense to me.
Nets get: Troy Murphy
Nets lose: Courtney Lee
Murphy will play limited minutes with the Nets and my guess is that they're going to try to trade him either now or in a few months at the trade deadline.
