I haven't really played Association Mode yet but i had some fun with the trading part of it. Just started out just to test it out a little, see if it was improved and check out the features like Trade Finder and so on. As you probably know if you played you can still commit highway robbery no questions asked. So I thought it'd be fun to share some results of a few tries.
Lakers - this was the first try, I didn't want to trade everybody but I managed to improve the roster quite a bit while picking up some lotto picks. This was without Ebanks and Character btw.
LakersYao Ming - Anderson Varejao
Pau Gasol - Andray Blatche
Ron Artest - Matt Barnes
Kobe Bryant - Chase Budinger
Kirk Hinrich - Ronny Price
Cavs 2011 first, Raptors 2011 first, Cavs 2012 firstI traded two or three point guards to the Cavs..
Raptors:Al Jefferson - Marcus Camby
Andrea Bargnani - Ed Davis - Kurt Thomas
Danny Granger - Jared Dudley - Linas Kleiza
Shannon Brown - Josh Childress - Sonny Weems
Mike Bibby - Derek Fisherdid trade most of my picks though. If I were to play with this team I'd probably trade Granger and try to get a better point guard though, younger and quicker, but it got boring after a while so I quit.
Anybody else transformed a team at the expense of some other ones?