Re: Trade Proposal from AOL board

[Joe Hironaka <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

I don't know about the Camby trade situation, but it seems to me that Cleaves
could still be there for New York at number 22, considering that pointguards
Crawford, Claxton, Dooling and Barkley probably all will be picked ahead of him
but that none will go much sooner than 10th.

In this sense, it seems unlikely you'd have a run of five pointguards so quickly
between 10 and 22, considering the many promising power and wing players also
available. If the Knicks move all the way up to #11 to draft Cleaves, it would be
kind of shocking too.


Thndrblt31@aol.com wrote:

> << Subject: trade proposal
> Date: 6/22/00 12:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: <A HREF="aol://3548:TomClash">TomClash</A>
> Message-id: <20000622123318.10922.00002821@ng-fv1.aol.com>
>
> Camby and the no. 22 pick to the Celtics for Fortson and the no. 11 pick.
>
> Camby is on the block in New York. The Knicks want Mateen Cleaves but have to
> move up to get him.  They also need a rebounding half court 4, which is
> Fortson.
>
> The Celtics need a player who can block shots, runs the floor very well and
> has a perimeter game.  That's Camby. With the 22d pick the Celtics could fill
> the backup pg or sg needs.  A frontline of Twan, Potapenko and Camby.  What
> do you think? >>
>
> I might consider this trade if Courtney Alexander and DerMarr Johnson aren't
> available at 11.  Camby performed well in the beginning of the season filling
> in for Ewing and a combo of him and Vitaly could cancel out each other's
> weaknesses.  We could still get players like Desmond Mason (I compare him to
> Finley) or Quentin Richardson.
>
> -= thndr =-