Moves that save money

[Alexander Wang <awang@MIT.EDU>]

Mark Berry has mentioned his dislike of moves that are made solely to save 
money. Here's one from the Minnesota Star Tribune:

"The Boston Celtics wanted to sign former Minneapolis North High School 
star Khalid El-Amin, but agent Rob Metcalf said the Celtics would offer 
only a partially guaranteed contract. The word from Dallas is the Mavericks 
gave El-Amin a one-year guaranteed deal for $468,000."

The only downside to guaranteeing El-Amin's deal is losing $468K if a 
better free agent becomes available, or an injury happens, and we cut him 
to open up a roster spot. Oh well, we're talking about a fourth point 
guard, and most likely Dallas will cut him anyway which will give us 
another shot if we want. But if the coaching staff believes that he could 
have helped us, and we lose him because Gaston's worried about possibly 
losing $468K, that's a bit annoying.

Alex