RE: [Celtics' Stuff Rogers for Daniels?

["Orion" <jlyell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniels is not the player we need to lead the offense. We already had
Chauncy and let him go and he was better suited than Daniels is. It is best
to spend the money on Best or McGinnis who may come cheaper. San Antonio
could go for a Delk or Rogers for Daniels swap. Especially Rogers, they
still need to replace Sean Elliot.

Why would you consider trading Shammond and Kedrick for Antonio Daniels? If
he was the key piece of the puzzle this makes sense, but I think he has
pretty much topped out.


We have hopefully addressed some low post presence issues with Vin, Keon
Clark would be nice, I think he was released last week, but probably out of
our range.  A Rogers sign and trade for Keon would have been nice to give us
a shot blocker.


John







-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@igtc.com [mailto:owner-celtics@igtc.com]On Behalf Of
CeltsSteve@AOL.com
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 1:47 PM
To: Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com; celtics@igtc.com
Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Rogers for Daniels?


In a message dated 7/28/02 11:27:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
Celtic4Hire@AOL.com writes:


> Daniels makes around 3.7 million in a one-year contract. I'm sure Gaston
and
> crew like the short term nature of the contract and I think Rogers would
be
> happy at that rate, maybe in a one-year deal. Perhaps this is what the
talk
> is about, a sign and trade Rogers for Daniels?


A sign and trade deal has to be for a minimum three year contract for the
player (Rogers) involved. The Spurs have stated they want expiring contracts
so I can't see how they'd really be willing to commit to a three year
(minimum) contract when their stated desire is to clear cap room for next
summer's FA class. Flip side is that Rogers could be viewed as a bargain
basement FA addition to the Spurs this season instead and would really help
them from a depth perspective.

Adding Speedy Claxton to back up Parker makes Daniels expendable and on
paper
it appears to be a deal that would help both clubs. The main problem with
this sign and trade scenario involving Rogers is that Gaston would in
essence
be adding $3.7M to the payroll using Rogers as the bait for Daniels.

Shammond has an expiring contract ($2M). Shammonds' salary and Kedricks'
would balance AD's and work 60 days from SW's original trade date (July 22)
but are the C's really ready to give up on Kedrick now as well? I wouldn't
think so.

I just don't see how acquiring Daniels from the C's perspective would fly
without expanding the deal and dumping existing contract(s) to remain under
the luxury tax. I checked RealGM but the Spurs don't seem to have a trade
exception, injured player, or retirement exception (Sean Elliott?) to use to
facilitate any deal, either.

CeltsSteve

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