RE: Seattle Fire Sale?

["Michael Griffin" <mgriffin@rillc.com>]

I think you said it all with the first sentence - salary considerations.
That's all this league has become, hasn't it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gooen [mailto:callmebogie@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 2:28 PM
> To: mgriffin@rillc.com
> Cc: celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: RE: Seattle Fire Sale?
>
>
> --- Michael Griffin <mgriffin@rillc.com> wrote:
> > Looks great from the Celtics perspective but not sure why Seattle would
> > even
> > sniff this deal.  I think we need to keep in mind that we wouldn't even
> > get
> > former all-stars in return for anything less than draft picks
> > (unprotected)
> > and pierce.  Williams and Cheaney couldn't make half the rosters in the
> > league and Battie wouldn't make a few rosters and that is why he was
> > traded
> > for Travis Knight.
>
> Salary considerations aside, WHOSE rosters couldn't Battie and Williams
> make?  Or Cheaney for that matter (I'm curious to see how Calbert does
> this year -- I'm not sure last season's complete lack of offensive
> production wasn't an anomaly stemming from his wife's problematic
> pregnancy)?  I'm not sure there's anyone on the Celtics' roster (apart
> from McCarty, who at this point I might trade for Master P... or even
> Eminem) who couldn't contribute on another team if given a better defined
> role.  I bet that based on Battie's and Knight's respective performances
> over the last two seasons, Jerry West regards that trade as a mistake.
>
> Remember, we're talking about a former All-Star with a huge contract whose
> production has dropped off even more severely than Cheaney's has in recent
> years.  We're also talking about a player Seattle may HAVE to trade now.
> I'd like to see what other offers they get for Baker.  Me, I'd rather take
> a 24 year old 6'11" athlete with raw talent than a 38 year old Hall of
> Famer who's going to give me 50 games if I'm lucky -- especially if I've
> got no shot of winning a championship anyway.
>
> And with all due respect to Paul M., there is no former All-Star for whom
> I'd give up Paul Pierce, and there are some current All-Stars for whom I
> wouldn't give up Paul Pierce.  Same goes for Walker.
>
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