Re: Tim Duncan

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

Patricia Bender says Payton will make 8.7 million in 98-99.  A mere 
pittance, and well within my limits.  Any idea what his total contract 
is?

Jim

>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 02:30:25 +1100
>From: Warwick <giants@eisa.net.au>
>To: Jim Meninno <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>
>CC: celtics@igtc.com, damekmo@teleport.com, skmishra@sprintmail.com
>Subject: Re: Tim Duncan
>
>
>
>Jim Meninno wrote:
>
>> 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'd have to say Gary Payton.. Sure the guy hasn't won a title, but he 
hasn't
>got the team around him capable of it thanks to some extremely bad
>management in the decisions of Jim McIlvaine..
>
>Actually, Seattle is a good team for the Celtics to compare themselves 
to..
>They haven't quite got as much cap baggage as we do but they do have a 
bit,
>they also have a lot of free agents *this* year, whereas we'll have a 
lot of
>free agents *next* year.
>
>Warwick
>


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