Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V4 #387

[Warwick Janetzki <giants@icplus.net.au>]

> >#3I have heard yet another rumour.
> >
> >San Antonio gets- Steve Smith, Dana Barros
> >Atlanta gets- Sean Elliott, Hererra, Dontae Jones
> >Boston gets- Avery Johnson, Alan Henderson
> >
> >I really like this trade, and it works out cap wise.
> So we're basically giving up just Barros and Jones in exchange for
> Johnson and Henderson? Dont think so. Alan has proven his worth to the
> Hawks this year, and I'm certain the SPurs would rather have Johnson
> running the point than Barros. Plus, Johnson is basically similar in
> ability & style to Edney -- if we're going to have two small PGs, lets at
> least have one who can shoot the three!  I dont see why Atlanta would
> trade two of their top 6 to get two washed-up players and an unproven
> rookie -- in theory, yeah, Elliott fills the SF need, Gray can step in
> for Smith at 2 guard and Herrera maybe fills Henderson's shoes. But look
> at how these players are performing this year and you see how uneven this
> trade would be. SA would probably make out best in this scenario, giving
> up Elliott for Smith. But I dont look for them to move Johnson, whom
> RObinson loves.
> 
Actually, I'd say that the Celtics win the trade easy, although thinking
about it, its not going to happen. The only reason that we'd get Hendu
or Avery would be because they need to fill the cap, but even then I'm
sure that they've got enough cap filling players on their teams to
complete a trade w/o moving one of their key players. (In this case,
Monty Williams, Cadillac Anderson, etc.)

> >#4>I see this as realistically being the only way cap wise that the C's can
> >get Jayson Williams trade-wise.
> >
> >Celts get- Williams, Dare, MacLean
> >NJ get- Billups, Bowen, DeClercq
> No way. Not to beat the point to death, but the C's will not get Williams
> without at least giving up a legitimate big man. Maybe switch DeClercq
> for Knight and add a fourth player -- Barros and Minor may have value but
> their salaries are problematic. McCarty or Jones could conceivably be
> possibilities. But this is all academic since I dont think this trade
> would or could happen.
> 
> 
Thats the point I was trying to make... we're not gonna get Jay Will
trade wise, unless they unload a lot of their cap burdens onto us
(MacLean, Dare).

The only way that it could be possible to get Jayson, would be to feed
them one of our future all-stars, in Ron Mercer or Antoine Walker
straight up for Jayson. They dont really want Ron as they've got Kendall
and Kerry so in that trade it would also include Bowen, McCarty and so
fourth to do it. I dont see how we could trade for him either, and quite
frankly, I doubt he'd come to the C's as a free agent, unless we were
guaranteed to be in the playoffs and go deep as he has been through
enough rebuilding in his time in the league and its time for him to have
a deep playoff run!

Warwick
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