RE: trades vs free agency

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

I still like moving Anderson for Marbury who Minnesota probably can not 
afford to resign and giving him the big bucks. He is the best young point 
in the league and extremely quick.  Move Walker for David Robinson & sign 
Guggliotta or someone in the draft to replace Walker.




On Saturday, June 13, 1998 9:09 AM, Alex Wang [SMTP:awang@mit.edu] wrote:
> Ominous article in the Globe today: Pitino thinks it's 50-50, at best,
> that they can sign Walker. He also says he wants to improve the team
> through trades rather than free agency because he doesn't have the cap
> room (or money?) to get the quality free agents.
>
> The Celtics are not going to significantly improve their team by trading
> bench players. It seems like Pitino is clearly indicating that he will
> try to trade at least one of the big three (Walker, Mercer, Anderson).
> I really hope they can compromise somehow with Walker. Pitino says he
> has the authority to spend $14M/year, which would be $84M for a six year
> contract. Walker wants $105M reportedly. I can't believe they would let
> a $21M difference force them to give up Walker if they really wanted to
> keep them, since $21M doesn't buy you much in today's free agent market.
> Hopefully it's just posturing, and Gaston is just trying to get Walker
> to settle for $95M or so.
>
> Alex
>