Draft day musings on Gomes/Beasley and other things

Just finished up the live chat. Thanks everyone for participating.

I was asked about the possibility of trading Ryan Gomes' contract for Michael Beasley and in firing off answers to some of the 721 questions that flooded in, gave a dumb answer on that one.

If I were the Wolves, I'd definitely take a gamble on Beasley.

The Wolves aren't going to pick up Gomes' option for $4.2 million and the Heat desperately want to carve Beasley's nearly $5 million contract off their cap.

If they get Gomes, they can let his option expire and pay him just $1 million this season and another nearly $2 million over the remaining two years on his deal.

That'd save them nearly $4 million on the cap.

Yes, he can be moody and immature and he has a short attention span, but he's also young, very talented.

He'd be worth the risk for nothing other than his salary, which would be as good of a gamble as thinking the Wolves can lure a signficiant free agent here this summer.

He's somewhere in between a power forward and a small forward, but could be a devastating sixth man on a contender if he accepts that role.

Gomes, reached this afternoon in Connecticut, says he hasn't heard a thing yet about his future.

"It's just wait and see what happens," Gomes said. "It is possible, probably 50/50 that I will be traded somewhere. I'm pretty aware something could happen, either a trade or not picking up my option. June 30 is the date. If nothing happens by then, I'll be just like LeBron and the rest of the those guys, a free agent."

Also, David Kahn was on the Dan Patrick show this morning (might have been on KFAN, too, but didn't hear that) and...