Re: RODMAN!!!!

["Timothy Jordan" <patsrule90@geocities.com>]

>Dino I understand you can send to Europe and maybe dump his contract
><though the C's will have to eat a part of his contract>, but how will you
>dump Dee & Dana's contract? In a trade the C's will receive a player(s)
>making the same amount of money (within a differential of 15%) in return.
>The money under the cap thus doesn't change.

If the Celtics trade them for say a 2000 first round pick then the cap
money doesn't go against us.  I know the NFL Salary Cap pretty good, but
I'm not sure of the NBA one.  It is much more complicated with so many
clauses.  

The Celtics wouldn't have had to pay anything to Dino if that original deal
went though.  If we can dump some of the other big price players for draft
picks or low salary players then we will be set for next year or this year.
 

But in all honesty, all 3 salary caps in the 3 major sports are a joke.  In
basketball, there is the Miami Heat who nearly had 2 $100 million men. 
They have much more money spent than the Celtics and actually have more
flexibility which is a joke.  It is the same with the Knicks.  They spent
$17 million on Ewing, $10 million on Larry Johnson, $20 million on their
backcourt.  Yet, they technically fit under the cap.  In football, teams
just break the cap like the Cowboys and nothing is done.  In baseball,
there is technically no salary cap, but a luxury tax.  You see a team like
the Yankees who spend $60 million and a team like Pittsburgh who spend $10
million.  Hockey, the one sport without a cap, is the only sport in which
players aren't making ridiculous amounts of money.  

It doesn't seem fair.  But then again, life isn't fair.

     Tim Jordan