Re: [Celtic_Pride] RE: Globe: Gasol may be out of reach, possible Portland deal

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

At 10:34 26/06/01 -0400, OzerskyJA wrote:
>I liked the deal of Brown for Bonzi much better.  Now talk is of Brown for
>#19 and 3mil cash.  That deal is terrible.  What a waste of a pick.  That
>would be a sign of a true cheap owner if that went down.

It was reported somewhere that this trade would very likely be rejected by 
the Comish, just as the McCarty deal was. Stern won't let teams buy up in 
the draft by dangling cash. This is too blatent an example, and there is 
enough precedent.

Even if these are probably just dead-end deals, it irks me to see Gaston 
involved in the negotiations. The alternate #11 for Bonzi and cash would 
probably make it through the commisioner's office, even though now it 
involves a player coming off major knee surgery. Maybe that's Wallace's 
definition of "not a cash deal". I don't know.

This is not a deal most fans would reject out-of-hand, at least prior to 
Bonzi's knee injury.