Re: Scottie Pippen/Cap Room

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.andara.com>]

I heard a vicious rumor that he wanted to go to a team on the pest coast.

Cecil
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Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 12:00 AM
Subject: Scottie Pippen/Cap Room


>First off, I am in disagreement that Anderson's contract doesn't count
against
>our cap. One, because, remember we have Dino Radja's against ours this
year.
>Also, I remember that last year Marty Conlan had a million dollar cap
number
>against Phoenix's cap while he played for us. This is some of the same
>situation. I also remember much of this discussion in the past with Dee
Brown;
>we would pick up some of the salary and it would count against cap for us.
>Check out Dave Dellasandro's column in the Sporting News about the original
>Toronto/Portland Trade. It seems to point out that Anderson's contract
would
>save the the Raptors considerable cap room. As far as Pitino's comments on
>WEEI, I have no knowledge of what he said, but possibly he said that the
two
>guys they got would give them an additional 2.2 in room, not just that
figure.
>The fact is that we would pay none on Anderson's contract, so why would it
>count against our cap? It doesn't make much sense.
>Now onto Scottie Pippen. I really want to see that happen. While we could
>undoubtedly we could use a big man(we still being mentioned for Ike in
trade
>talks), Pippen would be a much better fit. One, he's a better player. Two,
he
>is a great 3. He can handle the ball, he can score and he can defend. We
know
>that Pitino loves Pippen as evidenced with the possible trade last June. I
>also think that if we do have that 7.5 to 8 million in cap room that we
will
>sign Scottie. We know that Pippen is most likely a goner from Chi-town. Not
>many teams have significant cap room to sign Pippen. Phoenix is a
possibility
>for him, but if we have around 8 million as I believe then we can
definitely
>compete finacially with the Suns. Pippen also sounded as if he wanted to
come
>here last year during the brief flirtation of a trade. I also know that he
is
>up there in age, but I would definitely sign him to a 4 year deal.
>
>Just some thoughts.
>