Celts enter bidding way -Reply

[cmcarthur@kkya.com]

This would be a great trade for the Cs -- getting two legit talents for one
potential legit talent (billups) and a bunch of role players.  This upcoming
draft is going to suck, so I don't mind giving up our pick even though it
should be around #10.  By the year 2000, our pick should be pretty bad
anyway (hopefully).

I don't think that Camby is a starting center, but unless Ellison is healthy,
he would have to be.  Our best lineup would be:

5)  Ellison
4)  Camby
3)  Walker
2)  Mercer
1)  Stoudamire

With a decent amount of depth on the bench in Barros, Williams, Bowen,
and Thomas.

Bottom line is that Walker would have a legit post threat to deflect the
defensive pressure away from him, the team would have a legitimate
shot blocker to allow them to press more, with Walker, Camby, and
Stoudamire as the first three scoring options, Mercer would be open a lot
more and I think he would being to truly shine, and most of all we would
have a true point guard.  

>>> "giants@icplus.net.au" 01/22/98 05:03am >>>
The Celtics have entered the bidding war for the services of Damon
Stoudamire.

I saw a report on ESPN international 2 about it.

Celtics have reportedly made a massive trade offer being

We get: Stoudamire, Camby, Williams
We give: Billups, Knight, Minor, DeClercq, Rogers, 2 first round draft
picks (this one and 00) and 4 2nd round draft picks.

I dont know if this is a good trade or not. 

The team would be

 C- Camby       Ellison   Thomas
PF- Walker      McCarty   Camby     Thomas
SF- Williams    McCarty   Bowen     Walker   Camby
SG- Mercer      Bowen     Williams  Barros   Brown  Jones
PG- Stoudamire  Edney     Barros    Bowen

Salary situation
----------------
Free agent year
98: Edney, Stoudamire
99: Camby, Bowen, Jones, McCarty, Walker 
00: Ellison, Mercer, Thomas
01: Barros, Brown
02: Williams

Salary details for next season (all are approximates)

Team-       $23,900,424
Williams:   $4,000,000
Brown:      $3,500,000
Barros:     $3,400,000
Ellison:    $2,000,000
Camby:      $3,359,088
Walker:     $2,236,896
Mercer:     $2,121,984
McCarty:    $1,053,072
Jones:      $953,856
Thomas:     $768,528
Bowen:      $507,000

Using a $32 mil salary cap that leaves: $8,099,576 to spend on free
agents. We sign a center and another power forward (likelihood of
Outlaw
and Longley) then re-signing Damon Stoudamire and Tyus Edney, giving
the
Celtics a lineup of:

 C- Longley     Ellison   Outlaw   Camby
PF- Camby       Outlaw    McCarty  Walker
SF- Walker      Williams  McCarty  Bowen   Camby    Outlaw
SG- Mercer      Williams  Bowen    Barros  Brown    Jones  
PG- Stoudamire  Edney     Barros   Bowen

Comments?

Warwick