The NBA Live Dynasty mode GM in me really wants this trade to go through. Basically it’s rumoured as this: The Heat currently have the #2 selection, but really want Derrick Rose, not Michael Beasley, and the Bulls, who have the #1 selection, are leaning towards taking Rose with the first pick.

The rumour suggests that the Heat would be willing to ship Dwayne Wade to Chicago in exchange for the #1 pick plus players to make the salaries match – Andres Nocioni and Tyrus Thomas, for example (although I imagine Chicago would prefer to include Ben Gordon or Larry Hughes). This would net Chicago the Michael Jordan-type player they’ve been seeking since 1998, and would give Miami a starting 5 of Rose, Shawn Marion (who isn’t foolish enough to opt out of $17 million), Thomas, Beasley and a 2-guard.

Now, what I really want to see happen is a Blue Chips-like sweep – for Miami to trade for the #3 pick as well so they can draft OJ Mayo. Can you imagine? Rose, Mayo, Marion, Thomas, and Beasley? They’d be beasts. And it would satisfy our Virtual GM curiosities – what if Chris Bosh, Carmel Anthony and Lebron James were all drafted by the same team, etc.

Minnesota has the #3 pick, but I don’t think they necessarily want Mayo. So Miami offers to take back a couple bad contracts (Marko Jaric at $7 million a season and Troy Hudson at $6 million a season) with the #3 pick in exchange for serviceable role players (Haslem, sign-and-trade Ricky Davis) and cash. Then Miami gets Rose, Mayo, Beasley, Thomas, and Marion.

OK, but Marion is an expiring contract – so that’s a $17 million bargaining chip that you can turn into something. What? How about Bobby Simmons’ horrible contract in Milwaukee and either Andrew Bogut and/or Yi Jianlian? That way Marion would get to run with Redd under new coach Scott Skiles, and Milwaukee would shed bad contracts and get cap space to get another player that Skiles wants next year? And, of course, it’d mean that Miami’s starting 5 would potentially be Rose, Mayo, Nocioni, Beasley, and Bogut, with Jianlian, Simmons, and Thomas off the bench. What’s the over/under on the number of titles they’d win in the next 8 years? 2? 3?

Dynasty: won.

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