Re: Ike Austin

["Kevin Crawford" <176012@email.msn.com>]

Good point Alex.  Instead of trading for Austin, we should try to make some
trades so we can free up some cap space in order to aquire him in the off
season.


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
To: celtics@igtc.com <celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 7:59 AM
Subject: Ike Austin


>It doesn't make sense for us to trade anything worthwhile for Austin at
>this point, because he is going to be a free agent during the coming
>offseason, and he does not qualify for the Larry Bird Exemption. So if
>we traded for him, we would have no advantage over other teams in
re-signing
>him (i.e. we could only offer him our free cap space, like everyone else).
>We would do just as well to bid for him during the offseason.
>
>Alex
>