Re: Trade and Radja

[Adam Suchocki <Twilight@world.std.com>]

We would never be able to get IR money for Radja.  The missing cartlidge 
in his knee limits his ability to play, not prevents it all together.  
To get IR money, a player must be deemed by the league to be unable to 
play for the entire season.  As the Philadelphia doctors described it, 
Dino is capapble of playing individual games without problem.  He will 
not be able to play back to back games, or perhaps 2 games in three 
days.  And he would be able to only practice a limited amount the 
following day or two after a game because his knee will temporarily 
swell up to the unuseable point.  This is not much different (end result 
wise) from Bird his final season or even to some extent McHale.  Both 
had injuries agrevated by play.  Either could play at a very high level 
for individual games, but both would then have to sit out practices and 
sometimes games the following day or days.  Sometimes they could even go 
back to back, but not reliably.

In other words, this is grounds for voiding a trade, as Radja is damaged 
goods (assuming Philly was not aware of the condition to begin with).  
But it also means Radja can be relatively effective, and therefore we 
are inelligible for the injury salary cap exemption.  If he is not 
signed by Europe or traded, he may end up riding the end of the bench 
for Pitino.  This will be Pitino's choice not to play him at all, and 
thus we get no salary cap relief.

Adam


JOzersky@aol.com wrote:
> 
> two points:
> 
> How's this for a trade?   Tell somebody last march that you were getting
> Antoine Walker and Ron Mercer for Eric Montross and the rights to Samaki
> Walker.
> 
> question:  What is the worst case scenario with the Radja deal?  Thoughts?
>  If we can't get rid of him, doesn't his IR money come to about two point
> eight?