Re: Pitino's stupid things? Okay.

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

Let's not forget that Williams got 50 something million from Denver and 
Boston was not going to pay him that anyway.  By doing it the way he 
did, Pitino got to sign a free agent that turned out to be tradeable.  
If he held onto Williams, he'd have left now and they'd have no 
Williams, Mills or McCarty.

I have no idea where you came up with the bit about the cap room being 
for Edney.  Care to explain?

Jim


>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 12:39:30 -0500
>From: "Christopher J. Littlefield" <cjlitt@erols.com>
>Reply-To: cjlitt@erols.com
>To: Celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Pitino's stupid things?  Okay.
>
>2)  Signing Chris Mills for $33 mil 
>Traded Mills for Thomas, McCarty, and Jones.  Jones was cut.  Thomas
>brough some value back in the Anderson trade, but basically trade was
>for McCarty.  Could we have used that additional cap space this year? 
>Did we need a small forward that bad?  I guess not bad enough
>to keep him. 
>
>3)  Trading Eric Williams for 2 2nd round draft picks and then moaning
>because he needed 'another scorer' 
>C'Mon.  We'll never know what happened here, but when the trade went
>down, teams _called_ Boston to tell Pitino that they would have
>paid _much_ more for Williams.  Maybe we could've gotten another 1st
>rounder, maybe gotten Keon Clark.  Who knows.  Additionally, the cap
>room generated by Williams' trade was not necessary to sign Mills.  It
>was for Edney.  So we traded Williams for Edney.  Was that smart?
>


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