Re: eerie quiet

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

I heard Mercer got something like 6 yr $61M. Boy Chicago is really hard up.


Not much left unless we can swing a trade. VP & Fortson for O'neal &  Grant
?

It looks like Anderson will sign with San Antonio . Can't we make him & the
Clips an good offer or does Derek just want nothing to do with Pitino ?

This sucks







----- Original Message -----
From: "bird" <bird@pixi.com>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: eerie quiet


> >From: "Michael Griffin" <mgriffin@rillc.com>
> >
> >EPSN reported
> >Croshere has agreed with Indiana on a 7 yr 51M deal.  That is extremely
rich
> >and let him stay in Indiana for that kind of money.  That is crazy money
for
> >what I believe is an unproven commodity.  Is the NBA turning into the
lotto
> >where you have to pay crazy money for players who are not even all-pros
> >(Croshere,McGrady) yet?
>
> That's a lot of money to pay for Austin Croshere.  I guess dreams
> that he would sign for the exception were just that -- dreams.  I
> think the NBA is exactly what you said -- teams overpay for unproven
> players.  In a sense, though, they almost have to, because there's
> always going to be some team willing to overpay some guy, so supply
> and demand requires that you pay that guy more than that in order to
> keep or get him.  And it's about the dreaded "upside" or "potential"
> too: "This guy could be really good, so let's pay him an obscene
> amount of money."  As you say, that's a great reason to hold on to
> picks -- those guys are trapped in a 4 or 5 year deal for reasonable
> money.
>
> >Boy all that talk about being aggressive may end up being lip service.
> >Unless Pierce is traded - the changes may not even be considered
cosmetic.
>
> I think we're going in to next season with basically the same bunch
> of guys, plus Brown/Vaughn/Coles (one of them), Blount, maybe another
> CBA/summer league guy, and maybe another "free agent" (maybe an
> exception signing, or a return on a Fortson sign-and-trade).  Our
> best bet for a quality player is probably the Fortson sign-and-trade,
> just because it seems the talent you're getting for the $2.2mil
> exception is weak (though Pitino and Wallace are talking about
> signing one of the backup points to the $1.2 exception, I think they
> might end up with the higher exception instead).  Chris Childs?
> Vinnie Del Negro?  Yikes.  (To be fair, I guess Childs isn't so bad
> from a talent standpoint, but he probably makes more than we want to
> spend.)  A guy like Adonal Foyle would be sweet, though it appears as
> if he will resign with the Warriors, or his teammate, Dampier.  Let's
> just hope that (for our sake) Fortson really _won't_ take the
> exception on another team, so we actually might get something for
> him, or resign him ourselves (though in that case, he still wouldn't
> be used, so what's the point?)
>
> I fervently hope that three of four of our returning players have
> improved their games in a big way.  Otherwise, we won't be seeing any
> post-season action at all ... again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill
> --
> mailto:bird@pixi.com
> "Way to go schmoe."
>
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