Re: future

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>>this is what the c's payroll looks like i think we can cut down to about
>>8 players. then we would have 4 positions to fill.  so those player
>>should be 1- duncan 2-backup pg 3- another center 4- a good swing man.
>>we would have about 13.5 million to pay 4 players now we can get some
>>great free agents or save the money tell '98......are their any problems
>>anyone sees with this thinking????
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>Well, actually there is a problem.  It's called guaranteed contracts:
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>>|   PG  Dana Barros               $3,400,000 let go
>>|    G  Dee Brown                 $3,250,000 let go
>>|  PF-C Pervis Ellison            $1,760,000 let go
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>We don't have the option to simply "let go" of these players (if we did,   
>Dee would have been gone over a year ago).  While I agree that we would   
>be better off without these guys (and with the extra cap space it would   
>give us) the Cs hands are really tied here, through no fault but there   
>own. 

How do you figure the C's have no fault in the signings.  Carr signed all of 
these players except for Dee.  He has made his bed and now he has to sleep in 
it. (always wondered if I would have a chance to use this expression)

>We're stuck with them for several more years anyway . . . Unless we   
>can talk some team into taking them, but who would for this kind of $$$$?   
> And even if we could trade them away, we'd just get some more deadwood   
>in return with a similar contract.  The only solution is to wait it out   
>and never sign mediocre players to long-term, multi-million contracts   
>(Pervis for almost two million?!?  I think his contract was for 6 years   
>too!  Jeez!)
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Knowing Carr he will over pay Fox and Wesley.  Of the 2 I would rather keep 
Wesley, but at a good price. It shouldn't matter that the Knicks were stupid 
enough to give Chris Childs 4 mil. a year.  

>The only players that we can dump (to my knowledge) or lose to free   
>agency are:  Wesley, Fox, Day, Lister, Conlon, Brickowski, Szabo, and   
>Hamer.  Expect Wesley and Fox to be resigned and probably everyone else   
>(except maybe Conlon or Szabo as a cheap bench player) to be looking for   
>a new home.   
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According to Tommie, Conlon is a keeper.  Maybe he means Keeper of the bench.  
He should be gone, along with the other people listed (except for Wesley)

Peace
	Rich,,,