Marbury, Kobe and the Trade Machine

With Marbury wanting out, and given that his salary is almost identical to Bryant...I wondered what kind of deal could happen, it turned out to be pretty tough, but this is what I got from the trade machine on ESPN

4-team trade, Chicago, the Lakers, the Knicks and the Kings:

Chicago gets Kobe

trades Ben Gordon to LA

Lakers get Gordon and Mike Bibby from Sac in exchange for Kobe

Sac gets Marbury in exchange for Bibby to the Lakers and Artest to the Knicks

The Knicks get Artest from Sac and Ben Wallace from the Bulls.

Here's why I think it's a reasonable deal for everyone.

The Lakers will never get value for Kobe...here they will get two potential all-stars and still keep Bynum and Odom... Bibby, Gordon, Odom, Bynum and Luke Walton sounds like a pretty good lineup - as a bonus, Gordon's contract has only one year remaining and Bibby's only 2, so it gives them lots of flexibility in the free agent market

Chicago gets Kobe and gets rid of Ben Wallace's awful contract without giving up anything really but Gordon, obviously a great deal for them.

The Kings get rid of both of their problems in Artest and Bibby - Artest is an obvious one, Bibby it seems like they've been trying to get rid of for ages, perhaps to rebuild. Here they get Marbury and his awful contract, but it's over in 2 years and they have $19mill in cap room to play with, in the meantime they can tell their fans they got a legit PG in exchange for Bibby, not bad right?

The Knicks get rid of Marbury and grab Artest, a player they've wanted for a long time for some reason. The only hitch is they get stuck with Ben Wallace and his horrible contract.

So why would they do it? After all, they already have Curry and Zach Randolph...well, this is the Knicks, they got Steve Francis when they already had 3 other guys playing his role... and doesn't a really bad contract for an over-the-hill former all star sound like a classic Knicks situation?

In fact, when you think about it, its amazing Isiah hasn't tried to get Wallace already.

I <3 the trade machine.

Rob