Re: Antoine Walker - A league of Destinations

["Witch Craft" <witchcraft1998@hotmail.com>]

>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:06:19 +1000
>From: Warwick <giants@eisa.net.au>
>To: Celtics <celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: Antoine Walker - A league of Destinations
>
>Hey all,
>
>The only teams that Walker would be going to are Western Conference
>teams who spend a lot of money on players and are willing to accept 
some
>of our salary cap troubles as well..

I'm confused by this criteria, Warwick.  So there aren't Eastern 
Conference teams qualitatively under the cap?  I have to disagree. 

>
>Narrowing it down it comes down to the following teams
>
>Denver
>Golden State
>Houston
>Lakers
>Phoenix
>Portland
>Seattle

How can you leave out the Clippers?  They're certainly far enough
under the cap, and packed to the gills with a plethora of pivot people. 

>With the Celtics already having a good backcourt and Pierce at small
>forward it looks like the only positions that the Celtics would trade
>Walker for are to improve the 4 and 5 spots and they'd have to be 
fairly
>young and have a long career ahead of them.
>
>Each of those teams big men
>
>Denver
>Dean Garrett
>Priest Lauderdale
>Raef LaFrentz
>
>Houston
>Hakeem Olajuwon
>Roy Rogers
>Misrad Turkcan
>Charles Barkley
>Matt Bullard
>Othella Harrington
>Serge Zwikker
>
>Lakers
>Shaquille O'Neal
>Elden Campbell
>Robert Horry
>Tony Battie
>Sean Rooks
>Corie Blount
>
>Phoenix
>Danny Manning
>Pat Garrity
>Antonio McDyess
>Mark Bryant
>Clifford Robinson
>
>Portland
>Rasheed Wallace
>Brian Grant
>Carlos Rogers
>Kelvin Cato
>Jermaine O'Neal
>Alton Lister
>Arvydas Sabonis
>
>Seattle
>Vin Baker
>Jim McIlvaine
>Detlef Schrempf
>Aaron Williams
>Vladimir Stepania
>Rashard Lewis
>Jelani McCoy
>Stephen Howard
>Sam Perkins
>
>Out of all of those teams......
>
>I'd love to get my hands on Raef LaFrentz...
>
>Three reasons
>
>1) I absolutely love his game - have seen his game
>2) If Pierce is as good as everyone says he is then how about if we 
have
>his old teammate with him?
>3) Didn't Pitino say that he loved Raef's game?
>
>Trade idea for Raef.
>
>Antoine Walker - $2,216,000
>Travis Knight - $2,400,000 and (if they want him!)
>Pervis Ellison - $2,420,000
>Total - $7,036,000
>
>Inexchange for
>
>Raef LaFrentz - $2,742,000 (based on Billups)
>Dean Garrett - $2,160,000 (has demanded to be traded!)
>Total - $4,902,000

Denver already has Eric Williams, and possibly Laphonso Ellis.
They don't need another small forward. However, they do need a
center type, which is what they envision LaFrentz to be.
WC

>Cheers,
>
>Warwick
>
>


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