Not a trade actually being discussed

MILWAUKEE ‘ This is not ‘ repeat not ‘ a trade that is actually being discussed by the principles, or even (as far as is known) contemplated.
But someone (probably a fan) recently ran the following swap proposal through ESPN.com’s Trade Machine, and according to the Web site’s really cool tool it met parameters for a deal ‘ even with all of the league’s terrifically complicated trade rules factored in ‘ that indeed would be approved by the NBA.
And with the 17-12 Jazz visiting the sub-.500 Bucks tonight ‘ and, furthermore, with oft-rumored-Miami-target Carlos Boozer recently declaring he plans to opt out of the final year of his contract in Utah ‘ it’s at least worth pondering and debating.
Because unlike most Internet and talk-radio trade chatter, this one is not necessarily stupid and one-sided ‘ and really is rather intriguing.
In the proposed fantasy-world deal, Utah would lose Boozer, Andrei Kirilenko and Kyle Korver, but get Dywane Wade, University of Utah product Andrew Bogut and Richard Jefferson; Milwaukee would lose Michael Redd, Bogut and Jefferson, but get Shawn Marion (and his $17.2 million expiring contract), Kirilenko and Korver; Miami would lose superstar Wade, but get Redd and Heat owner Micky Arison-buddy Boozer.
Lots of All-Stars at one time or another mixed in there, including at least three ‘ Boozer, Marion and Kirilenko ‘ frequently mentioned (again, at one time or another) in rumored trade talk.
Pros for all participants? Cons for all clubs? Something all three actually could not just agree to, but also benefit from?
As snow continues to fall just on the other side of the Milwaukee hotel-room window, and chances of actually flying out of here Wednesday morning to spend 48 hours with family for the holidays seem to diminish by the minute, you (Merry Christmas) make the call ‘

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