RE: News out of Miami

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

It has been obvious the Webber Howard thing would not work they really play 
the same position, and I expect one to go possibly for Sprewell ?  Lets 
pass on Smith he is a tweener without a jumpshot.


On Thursday, May 07, 1998 5:11 PM, Sherry & Hart 
[SMTP:hartleyo@ix.netcom.com] wrote:
> Hank Goldberg on his Miami sports talk had Ira Winderman as his guest.
> He is the Heat beat writer for the Sun Sentinel.
> 	 He said that their is virtually no interest around the league for Joe
> Smith and that the Sixers aren't sure who they would rather keep Coleman
> or Smith.  The GM's around the league seem to think that Smith may now
> be as good(mediocre is a better word) as he can be and that he has over
> valued his talent (where have we heard that before)and that it appears
> that Larry Brown may want to keep Coleman around instead of buying out
> his contract, If in fact the Sixer do buy out Coleman's contract, the
> first guy at his door will be Pat Riley.
> 	He also said that Rod Stickland went to management of the Bullets oops
> Wizards and told them that the Webber/Howard situation is just not
> working out and they agreed,  it now seems that Webber will be the odd
> man out, only because Webber makes 3 Million less and would be easier to
> trade.  It really is hard to believe that Howard makes 11-12 Million a
> year, the biggest reason Howard is untradeable and Webber is tradeable.
> Personally I think that Webber is twice the player than Howard, but
> Howard is twice the person and more coachable.
> 	Thought you guys and gals would be interested.
>
> Regards,
> Hart