RE: Trade

[Charles Jowett <jowett_charles@waters.com>]

>It was just reported today on Weei radio in Boston that the Celtics
>traded Dino Radja to the Sixers for Clarence Weatherspoon and Michael
>Cage.
>
>I think this is a very good trade for the Celtics.  

I am not a fan of Weatherspoon.  His defense isn't 
very good.  He is too small to defend power forwards 
and too slow to stop small forwards.  I would rather 
have Dino on my team any day.  Dino is a better low 
post scorer and a better rebounder.

Here are Weatherspoon's Stats (view with a fixed font 
such as courier):

Year    min/g  FG%   FT%   p/g    r/g  a/g
- ------------------------------------------
92-93   32.4  .469  .713   15.6   7.2  1.8
93-94   38.4  .483  .693   18.4  10.1  2.3
94-95   39.4  .439  .751   18.1   6.9  2.8
95-96   39.7  .484  .746   16.7   9.7  2.0
96-97   36.0  .491  .738   12.2   8.3  1.7

The only way that this is a good trade is if it frees 
up cap space now or in the near future.  Neither player
will be a free agent this summer.

Here's the salary information from Patricia's various 
basketball stuff at 
http://www.dfw.net/~patricia/salaries97.txt

Player            Salary
- ---------------------------
Dino Radja ...... 5,313,000
 
Weatherspoon .... 3,300,000
Michael Cage .... 1,473,000 +
                 -------------
                  4,773,000

Charles