RugbyBull

In Jamal Crawford as your starting point next year. In all likelihood, he will command a salary a little larger than the cap space you will have at the end of the year. How does this deal sound:

Erob
Scottie Pippen's Contract
sign and trade JC
Cash for Buyout
future conditional 1st?

to Miami for

Eddie Jones
Caron Butler
Malik Allen

Now stay with me before you jump on the sign and trading JC part of the deal. I think in this case, it could actually work.

Miami will be under the cap next season, I think somewhere around 4-5 million, which is actually not so great because its basically the MLE range and they won't have an MLE if they stay under the cap. They also have some free agents, Raefer Alston and Rasual Butler, which they'd probably like to resign. And they also have a need at pg, as Wade seems to play much more as a 2.

Caron's stock has dropped because of his injury (which I don't now the status of) and Odom and Wade are the young guns of the future. To a degree, R. Butler makes C. Butler tradable. And a big part of this deal is they save money on Jones's contract and add to the youthful talent base. Resigning Butler, Alston, and making this trade (they take on more salary than they send out), they can reach the cap and offer the MLE to a guy like Mark Blount or some other 4 or 5 Assumming they draft a Euro Big, their team now looks like this:

PG JC/ Alston
SG Wade/JC/R. Butler
SF Odom/R. Butler/E-Rob
PF Brian Grant/ Odom
C Blount/ Pavel?

If they don't make the playoffs this year, it seems realistic that they might do it, and that JC, if assured an adequate contract, could be conviced to join them. Riley took a chance on Odom last year, he knows talent, JC has a lot of it and at PG sharing the backcourt with Wade he could probably get more out of it than as the SG he is now. So how does this sound to Miami fans? Something you'd be interested in?