Re: [bostonceltics] Re: Re: Kenny blasted

[Alexander Wang <awang@MIT.EDU>]

At 12:12 PM 2/27/01 -0800, kevin from singapore wrote:
>>>   Get used to seeing Kenny Anderson on the bench. He's still untradeable,
>>>and short of cutting him, the Celtics are going to have to ride him out.
>
>I think if Shawn Kemp or Juwon Howard can be traded (and for quite good
returns I
>must say), then Kenny Anderson, earning relatively lesser and with just 2
more
>years on his contract, must be tradeable.

There's a difference. Shawn Kemp, as fat and ridiculed as he was, averaged
something like 18 ppg, 9 rpg during the year before he was traded. Juwan
Howard is averaging 18 ppg, 7 rpg this year. There's going to be demand for
power forward/center types who can put up those sorts of numbers. Beyond
that, only two teams (Portland and Dallas) are truly in the business of
taking on these outrageous contracts. I don't see either of them taking on
Kenny's contract. And few teams are dying to take on an overpaid 4 apg
point guard.

>I like to ask a "stupid" question:
>
>how come the Wizards is talking about buying out Rod Strickland's choking
contract
>
>it doesn't help at all in the cap situation (for the wizards), isn't it? 

It's a different situation, because the buyout clause was written into the
contract from the beginning. Originally it was something like a 4 yr, $40M
contract, but after the second year the team had the option to buy out the
rest for $5M. So its going to save them a load of cap room. Cory
Alexander's contract didn't have any such clause, so they were basically at
his mercy when they negotiated that buyout.

Alex