Re: The answer on the Philly pick

["Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@hotmail.com>]

No Mark, it does much more than that. It gets rid of a useless basketball 
player in Jerome Moiso. It clears up cap space because Moiso was on the 
books for 2 more years while Mcleod is only on for one. Maybe Josh O. can 
ask Wallace, but I am sure that the driving force behind this trade was not 
cash. Chris Wallace has basically come out and said that this deal was made 
to free up cap space after this year, not because he is counting on Mcleod 
to become a superstar. Why can't you see this trade for what it is? It 
really isn't that difficult to figure out. This is not trading Babe Ruth so 
that No No Nannette can keep running.


>From: "Berry, Mark  S" <berrym@BATTELLE.ORG>
>To: "'celtics@igtc.com'" <celtics@igtc.com>
>Subject: The answer on the Philly pick
>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:56:15 -0400
>
>From the MSNBC piece by Shira Springer...
>
>"...The third component of the deal was a first-round pick available as
>early as 2003 and protected through the lottery until 2007. But it's
>virtually assumed that Philadelphia will not drop to the lottery in the
>forseeable future, so the pick in all likelihood automatically would fall 
>to
>the Celtics in 2003. . . ."
>
>----end---
>
>This certainly seems to answer the question about the pick. Barring an
>Iverson car crash with Mutombo riding shotgun, it sounds like the Celts 
>will
>automatically get the Sixers' pick this year. That figures to be somewhere
>in the late 20s. Let's hope they use McLeod's expiring contract to work
>another deal; otherwise, this trade does nothing but pad the pocketbook.
>
>Mark


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