Fixing the Miami Heat and Philadelphia 76ers

Two teams with the same problem but two totally different situations. Miami is a veteran team and they need to win now. With Wade and Shaq they can win if the right pieces are surrounding them. The sixers are young, and are basically trying to get to the off season to where they will bring in some big free agents. Philly is ready to roll now that they have fired Billy King and brought in Philly native Ed Stefanski. Recently Ed has been quoted as saying he knows how Philly is, there is no patience in this city. One off season, and the sixers can be fixed. Miami Can be fixed with a couple moves.



Fixing the teams may actually be done by making some moves within the teams. Miami needs a starting PG. Philly needs to clear some cap space.



The Miami Heat: First, they must sign Luke Jackson of the NBDL. He is a shooter, and that will give them someone to camp out at the three point line.



The Big moves:

Trade 1: Miami sends a two great players to Sacramento Dorell Wright and Udonis Haslem for Francisco Garcia and Ron Artest. Garcia can flat out play and step in and start at the 3. He is a decent shooter and all around player. Artest can be the 4 in the East, plays great D and will score a bit too. Riley doesn't give Dorell a good chance to play and not in the right position. He will excel anywhere else. The loss of Haslem hurts, but not with Artest coming back.

Trade 2: Miami Sends Jason Williams To Philly for Andre Miller. Miller is an offensive genius, and will immediately have an impact.

Say bye to Smush Parker, maybe they can trade him for nothing. He should fit in ok somewhere else.
New Rotation:
C Shaq
PF Artest
SF Garcia
SG Wade
PG Miller
Subs
ZO, Jackson, Cook, Davis, Quinn

The 76ers:
Well they benefit from the trade above where they get J-Will for the rest of the year and then almost 10 million off the books in the summer. I would think they need to free up a little more space to have more money this summer. They should resign Iguodola, only if they can add a number option ahead of him.

Getting rid of Dalembert has to be a number one option. He is terrible, and they are overpaying him. Trading him for Kwame Brown who would free up another 10 million after this year. He is a free agent after this year and could ride the bench and let Jason Smith play all year.
Dalembert could benefit any West Coast team who has a scoring PF.
Willie Green and Kyle Korver should also be moved for draft picks and expiring contracts. That frees up over 40 Million.

40 Million minus 12 for AI. That leaves 28 million for draft picks and free agents.

They can then sign Brand, Baron Davis, Gilbert Arenas, or Shawn Marion.
Maybe even two of them. I would take Arenas to get people in the seats and then fill the roster.
Biedrins from GS should be available for about 5-6 million. He starts at center. They could turn around and steal Gordon from Chicago... The rest of the roster would be free agent and NBDL success stories..
PG Arenas
SG Gordon
SF Iguodola
PF Reggie Evans
C Biedrins
the rest of the rotation remaining on the team Young, Jason Smith, Rodney Carney and a couple free agent additions.
Available additions, Louis Williams, Carlos Arroyo at PG
Tony Allen, Gerald Green, Udrih, or Brent Barry to get someone who knows how to win in here for the 2 and 3 spots
Big men for low money. The only guy I would add would be Desagana Diop. Besides that they still have Evans and Smith. If the Sixers go the Brand route, it would change their whole mentality on what they do with this team. What will Ed Stefanski do? Know one knows, but its better than what Billy King would have.