Fw: Dallas-Boston Trade

["Joshua Ozersky" <jozersky@stny.rr.com>]

This is what I've been saying....

-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy <sandyk@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: alt.sports.basketball.nba.boston-celtics
Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: Dallas-Boston Trade


>I was thinking the same thing. Now I may be wrong regarding the cap
>(probably am) but here goes. Ellison, Jones and Mercer are worth about 8
mil
>against the cap. Boston was about 2 mil over the cap going into the summer.
>The cap goes up from 32 mil to 34 mil in August. Walker and Antsey are
worth
>about 3.5 against the cap combined. That means that Boston with the cutting
>of Damon Jones and Eric Riley (about 800k against the cap) Boston would be
>slightly under the cap come August. Now if Dallas is also under the cap (I
>don't know for sure) the trade could be made. If so, follow this. The
>difference between 8 mil and 3.5 mil is 4.5 mil plus Damon Jones and Eric
>Riley's salaries for a total of about 5 mil under the cap for Boston.
Boston
>now trades Dana Barros 3.5 mil to Seattle and suddenly Boston is 8.5 mil
>under the cap. Boston could add 15% to bring the amount to over 9 mil. If
>more is needed (which I dought) Boston could trade Tony Battie or Greg
Minor
>2.5 mil to Seattle. Boston would then have about 11 mil plus 15% for a sign
>and trade for Vin Baker. Wheather this plays out or not, I think Pitino is
>trying to clear up cap space to sign Baker. If he can't do that he will go
>in another direction.
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