Geiger, Ratliff, Austin

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

I found the commentary on the basketball abilities of the players useful,
but where does the 4 million/year figure for Geiger and Ratliff come from?
I have never seen that figure discussed for either player whereas I have 
seen the figure $50M over seven years for Ratliff, and originally $10M/year
for Geiger. He supposedly lowered his demands to $7M/year after his troubles
in the playoffs (and realizing that $10M was probably not too realistic). 
If he really had said $4M/year, Falk probably would have killed him.

In either case, $7M/year translates to a bit over $4M in the first year 
under the old CBA; perhaps that is where the $4M figure comes from? Pitino 
was anticipating having around $4M in cap space in which case he could 
probably pull it off (assuming the old CBA and renouncing Popeye Jones). 

Alex

 
Noah wrote:
> If the NBA lockout ends on Feerick's hearing between August 24-25 and
> Antoine resigns, the Celtics will find themselves thrust into the market for
> a free-agent center(note:some of this is a rehash). Market wisdom assumes
> that we should be able to sign Geiger or Ratliff easily(around 4 mil/year
> which should fit easily under the celtics estimated 32 mil salary cap) or
> have to reach for Austin(~10mil a year, which would require a cap dump of
> some sort).
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