出处 http://blogs.chron.com/nba/ How Rashard Lewis signing somewhere else could help the Rockets Since we have a few more weeks to be unrealistic, and I was feeling left out having to always be the wet blanket, I had to take my turn. Now I could not go far enough to think the Rockets will have a third player on their roster making in excess of $12 million a year. That rules out Rashard Lewis. And I have been told often enough that they are not chasing Ron Artest, though purely from a basketball standpoint, I cannot blame anyone for imagining adding him to the mix. So I had to come up with another one. If you look at the lists, there would not seem to be free agent power forwards that they can afford (Anderson Varejao) or get to move by offering a mid-level exception (Andres Nocioni). Mikki Moore is interesting and would be a good addition to a power forward by committee mix. Joe Smith would offer the Juwan Howard things. Melvin Ely? Zarko Cabarkapa? Eh. So how about this one? Rashard might be the top free agent out there. If you are Orlando and you have the money and you have the dynamic, young low post presence in Dwight Howard, can you do better than putting Lewis and his length and shooting touch together with Howard? Here's the catch. To have that much cap room, the Magic would have to renounce their bird rights to Darko Milicic. The cap hold on Milicic takes up too much room to open the space for someone at Lewis' asking price. They plan to sign Milicic, but if they could get Lewis, they would have a chance to become pretty special in the East. Milicic would expect more than mid-level exception, but a couple guys that expect that won't get it. I've never been sure about Milicic. But he does have the size. He has perimeter shooting touch that would go well next to Yao. I've never been certain if he competes hard enough and with enough toughness and discipline to be a full-time power forward in the west. But if he is still standing when the big money music stops, he might be a very interesting option. I'm not sure what I think of this. And it might never be an option if the Magic or someone else locks him up quickly. But Milicic is different from anyone the Rockets have at the position. He could eventually become a backup to Yao, too. He might be ready to take another step. Hey, it's a long shot. I'm not even sold on it. But, when everyone else was tossing around names, it looked like fun. You know what, it was. --

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