Season of the Salary Dumps: Nobody Cares Trades

There's a thread for the Najera one, but it's now official.

Meanwhile, New Orleans shipped off Hilton Armstrong to the Kings for a second rounder that comes in Obama's last year of office.

The New Orleans Hornets have traded center Hilton Armstrong and cash to the Sacramento Kings in a salary-clearing move, league sources told Yahoo! Sports.

The brutal honesty of a sentence like that is somewhat refreshing, I have to admit.

The New Orleans Hornets have reached terms on a trade that will send guard Devin Brown to the Chicago Bulls for reserve big man Aaron Gray, according to NBA front-office sources.

The trade, barring an unforeseen snag, is expected to be formally approved by the league office later Monday.

The Hornets nearly traded Brown to Minnesota in hopes of reducing their luxury-tax bill in December, but the deal could not satisfy salary-cap requirements unless Brown agreed to waive a portion of the trade kicker in his contract. Brown declined.

This deal would net only a small luxury-tax benefit for the Hornets but bring them an extra big man for their bench. Brown has started 37 games for New Orleans this season, but the Hornets want to give more minutes to rookie Marcus Thornton and decided they needed the extra size.

In spite of its recent improvement, Chicago has been looking for perimeter help to help fill the void created by Ben Gordon's free-agent departure to Detroit.

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nba/n ... id=4857249

Aaron Gray was the only scrub I enjoyed watching in that Bulls roster.

Not a bad deal for the Bulls given their lack of size in the backcourt and the fact Gray was being used so sparingly. As far as propelling them to greater heights though, they might just need to make a bigger acquisition than that.

Hornets make it three in a row:

The Los Angeles Clippers have acquired guard Bobby Brown from the New Orleans Hornets for a conditional 2014 second-round draft pick.

Brown, 25, is averaging 6.6 points and 2.1 assists in 14.9 minutes per game. He starred at Westchester High and became the all-time leading scorer at Cal State Fullerton, but was undrafted after college. Brown played for Alba Berlin of Germany in 2007-08 before signing as a free agent with the Sacramento Kings.

The deal brings the Hornets' player payroll below the $69.9 million luxury tax threshold.

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/n ... id=4859977

I guess it was the Clippers perogative to acquire Brown.