Re: The Spores Don't Impress Me & No. 37 -Reply

[Theresa Lee <tjoyce@mit.edu>]

Did I read here that the NBA may purchase the CBA as it's farm league? What
a great idea except that it would put so many colleges out of business.
Think of the possibilities. Trading of "farm" players for picks; packaging
farm players (6th graders maybe) in a trade with NBA players just like in
baseball; rehab stints in Omaha; call ups to fill roster spots; no more
12th man dead weight or fake injury list players.

Theresa

>At 10:54 PM 6/22/99 +1000, Warwick wrote:
>> > And why, pray tell, would the Jazz be interested in making this lopsided
>> > trade?
>> >
>> > Ryan
>>
>>Ryan,
>>
>>I'm a Jazz fan as well as a Celtic fan and I know the Jazz are shopping their
>>picks. If they could get two second round picks for one of their first
>>rounders
>>I believe they would take them because it would take the guaranteed contract
>>off of their hands and a chance to get a foreign import or someone just as
>>impressive as the middle-end of the first round. They could take someone with
>>an upside, send them overseas to Europe or even Australia for a season or
>>so to
>>get experience and then when they were ready sign them, exactly the same way
>>that Ben Pepper is going with the Celtics.
>
>
>I gotta tell you Warwicks logic makes perfect sense.  The Jazz roster is
>pretty well set and picking as low as they will isn't going to radically
>improve their roster. Plus as W stated not paying a guaranteed contract
>for a low # 1 is incentive enough. Taking a couple of  2nd rounders with
>high upside and farming them out to Europe could pay big dividends down
>the road when their roster needs replenishing. Yup sounds good to me. Just
>my thoughts and YMMV!! Later.Mike