"For the Warriors, Andris Biedrins is worth … (FILL IN THE BLANK).

This is a good mental exercise, coming off of MT-2's confirmation and amplification/explanation yesterday of Richard Justice's post-draft report that the Rockets tried to get Biedrins from the Warriors on draft night and will continue to try to get him.

MT-2 reports that the Rockets have offered Jordan Hill and/or Hasheem Thabeet (the two players' salaries combined would make the numbers work), and that the Warriors aren't interested in those names so far.

They want more than two players who, even with Biedrins bottoming out last season, probably won't ever be as good as Biedrins is now.

First natural reaction: The Warriors have a taker for Biedrins' remaining $27M and they're not jumping at the offer?

But then you think about it a little…

Really, it's like a personality/attitude/history test, because Biedrins is worth many different things to many different people, and it does change every season or every month or perhaps every week.

If you realize he just turned 25, is a career 59.5% FG shooter with good rebound numbers for most of his six-season career, and that young centers always have value in the NBA, you can easily conclude that Biedrins does and should have value.

That's what a few NBA execs have cotinued to believe over the last two years, even as Biedrins retreated into a shell of lost confidence and utter offensive uselessness.

"Somebody's going to want him," one exec warned me when I casually said that Biedrins has zero worth recently. "They're going to think they can bring him back."

If you've watched him during his last two seasons with the Warriors, and know that he's still owed $9M per over the next three seasons, with a FT% plummeting to horrific levels, you might rightly conclude that Biedrins is worth nothing or less than nothing.

That has been my main position recently, with the caveat that it only takes one team to believe there's something worth salvaging in Biedrins to boost his trade stock.

It's pretty clear now that Houston is one of those teams. Maybe the only team? Not shockingly, the Rockets are a very stats-oriented team, and three years ago, Biedrins was one of the most efficient centers in the game.

When he was only 22. Summary of his high ponits: He doesn't demand shots, when he's right he makes them, he plays help defense and he can rebound."