Fwd: [Celtics' Stuff Tidbit from ESPN Insider's Chad Ford

[Jim Metz <james.metz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well anyway, here it is from a guy who really knows. LOL
JB


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> From: musty_joe <mustyceltic@att.net>
> Date: Fri Jun 21, 2002  09:14:28 PM US/Eastern
> To: Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff Tidbit from ESPN Insider's Chad Ford
> Reply-To: Celticsstuffgroup@yahoogroups.com
>
> JB wrote:
>
> <Kenny Anderson 8,350,000. Tony Battie 3,600,000 = 9,950,000. >
>
> JB, $8,350,000 + 3,600,000= 11,950,000 not 9,950,000. Looking at your
> figures proposed on Kandi and McGinnis, $9,800,000 total. You have to be
> within 115% plus or minus 100,000 dollars to satisfy matching salary
> rule.
> So, multiplying 9,800,000 x 1.15 gives you $11,270,000. So, not quite
> close enough yet but close. Clips need put another 680,000 in. That
> exactly would match the total you gave for Kenny and Battie. I am sure
> that is a detail that easily could be worked.
>
> I'm not sure Kandi man and his agent are not going to want more than the
> 7 million 300 thousand you came up with. So, there could develop a real
> "mule-trading gig" there. Oh well..what else is new? :)
>
> musty
>
>
> JB wrote:
> >
> > On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 04:45 PM, Lance Jacobson wrote:
> >
> > The team STILL can't plan to move Kenny in the preseason unless it
> gets a solid PG in return.  We always lost ground when one of the
> tweeners was in at PG; I'd trade Kenny if we got someone solid and
> freed up the money, but I still wouldn't give it to Rogers.  How does
> $9M get reduced to 2-3?  Seems like we've already spent his salary as
> it is.
> > Lance
> > ***********
> > There is much speculation on the trading of Kenny Anderson. I agree
> with Lance 110%. We must have a true distributing point guard, to make
> the trade work, not that it should be very hard to get either McGinnis
> or Vaughn, both of whom would serve the purpose.
> > Again though, in order to trade Kenny and we are really trading a
> salary spot, to open in a year, we have to get the center. Also please
> note, that even trading with the Clippers, or any team under the cap,
> we have to take back salaries within 150,000 of what we are trading, as
> we are not under the cap.
> > Looking at the most feasible offer for Olowakandi: Kenny Anderson
> 8,350,000. Tony Battie 3,600,000 = 9,950,000. The Clippers would need
> to sign Olowakandi and McGinnis, for say 7,300,000 and 2,500,000 =
> 9,800,000 and do the sign and trade. We wouldn't reduce our cap by
> much, but we'd surely have an upgrade at center.
> > No doubt, both of these players would want at least three year deals
> though, so we'd be pretty much out of the free agent market and be
> flirting with luxury tax woes, for several years, but with Cook, Brown
> and Forte and the two 1st round picks next year, we should be able to
> build a contending roster.
> > The Clippers get some value for two players who probably will just
> walk away, a center signed for three more years at reasonable money and
> a contract to expire in time to pay Elton Brand.
> >
> > JB
> >
> > Unchain My Heart!
>
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