RE: stupid trade idea

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

No way on this one.  Campbel is a $7M a year stiff that West has been 
trying to dump for the last 3 years with no takers.  Jerry West would love 
to take paul  Pierce for nothing.  I 'd go get God Shamgod cheap in free 
agency as an apprentice to KA.




On Friday, January 08, 1999 2:25 PM, Jeremy [SMTP:jwarren@eecs.tufts.edu] 
wrote:
> I suggested variations of this before the lockout and here's another one:
>
> Barros, Knight, Minor, and the rights to Pierce for Elden Campbell and
> Derek Fisher.
>
> We get a solid starting center who is locked up for five seasons and a
> backup point guard with good point guard instincts.  The Lakers get a
> couple of small forwards to replace Rick Fox, a great three point 
shooting
> guard to compliment Shaq, and the ever popular Travis Knight.  Remember
> that Pierce spent most of the lockout in LA.  Maybe he knew that he would
> be traded there.
>
> We would be left with only McCarty and Dontae Jones at the 3 spot, but we
> could try to sign Cliff Robinson or Joe Smith with the $4M in cap space
> that we would end up with.
>
> Jeremy
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