RE: wow! get this. Kenny almost went

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

It seems to me that the cap is pretty much shot just with Pierce
and Walker. (I don't see how the team can avoid a luxury tax -- 
more reason still why I want to see Gaston go.) I would trade all those
 picks upward for a top-five selection, and maybe sweeten the deal a 
little further with cash or whatever.  We already have Sesar on line; we
 need a dynamic young point guard or a Shawn-Marion type rebounder
 at the three spot. Somebody like that should be available.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alexander Wang [SMTP:awang@MIT.EDU]
> Sent:	Friday, March 02, 2001 1:46 PM
> To:	Cynthia Ozersky; celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: wow!  get this.  Kenny almost went
> 
> At 08:23 AM 3/2/01 -0500, Cynthia Ozersky wrote: 
> 
> 
> 	From Vescey's column:
> 	
> 	Sources say the Celtics nearly accepted the Mavericks' invitation to
> assume Kenny Anderson's salary (two years to go after this at $17.5M) in
> return for season-ending contracts and Boston's three first-round picks.
> Who knows what would've happened had John (Why?) Brown not been consulted.
> 
> 
> If Vecsey is to be believed, this shows that Kenny Anderson and his big
> contract is worth minus 3 first-round draft picks. And the proposals of
> "Anderson and picks for [All-Star]" are obviously disconnected from any
> sort of reality. Depressing but not surprising.
> 
> I would guess that this deal and the deal to dump McCarty on the Bulls
> were connected, because getting rid of both is much more valuable than
> just one or the other. If we had dumped both and then renounced most of
> our free agents (Stith in particular), then we would likely be below the
> cap enough to pursue a premier free agent, or use the cap space to
> facilitate favorable trades. Orlando did a similar dumping of lottery
> talent when they sent Dooling and Maggette to the Clippers, but they were
> the premier free agent destination, so it was obviously much less risky.
> But just dumping Kenny's salary in isolation probably doesn't help our cap
> situation enough to warrant it.
> 
> As it is, if we have to hand out three first-round contracts and extend
> Pierce this offseason, I don't see any cap flexibility for many years.
> Hopefully one of these picks will turn into something special.
> 
> Alex
>