Re: Tim Duncan

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

Thanks, Mishra, although I was more interested in hearing if Paul was 
able to put a constructive thought together than anything else.  

As far as my "disasterous" offer for Antoine, 12 million average over 7 
years is, what, 84 million?  Name a player who has signed a larger 
contract who you do not believe is overpaid.  I doubt you will find one 
who's won a championship.  Hakeem, maybe (don't know what his contract 
is), but he certainly paid his dues first.

The Bulls got where they are by locking up Pippen which allowed them to 
focus on Jordan.  Everyone else who pays a huge contract ends up losing 
some other important player.  How will the Celtics be any different?  
Curious you name Utah as the other team that has been able to get 
players who stay for less money than they could get elsewhere.  I 
suppose you think it's a coincidence that they are the second best team 
in the league.  I would go so far as to say, with the current salary cap 
stucture and salaries of the top players, the only way to build a 
dominant team is for some of the key players to sacrifice for the team.  
I guess you expect that to be Mercer and Pierce instead of Antoine.  Or, 
do you see them making over 10 million too?

I'd like to see the Celtics wait as long as they can before signing all 
of these players, only because they are all young and you don't really 
know what they are capable of.  Of course Antoine has been quoted as 
saying that if the Celtics have a chance to sign him this year and 
don't, he probably won't stay with them.  And, for everyone who always 
claims that he never really says anything bad, we are just imagining it, 
this was reported in both local papers to have passed through his own 
lips.  So the Celtics may feel that it is now or never.

As far as RP and rumors, I would have thought that by now you would have 
learned that you can't believe anything you read in the papers about 
what he is planning to do.  He probably has told reporters that he 
really likes Mashburn, but then he really likes to throw up smoke 
screens too.

Jim

>From: "Icarus" <skmishra@sprintmail.com>
>To: "Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>, <celtics@igtc.com>,
>        <damekmo@teleport.com>
>Subject: Re: Tim Duncan
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:48:09 -0800
>
>
>I would find Walker's market value and would sign him to a contract at 
that
>value.
>
>It's a judgement call, we have a great nucleus of young players. The 
front
>office has a year to make the decision, why not wait and let these 
players
>before making any kind of rash decision.
>
>
>After readng all these weird rumours floating around, I wish it was 
Paul
>rather than RP running the celtics.
>                                                                            
>         - Mishra
>


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