Re: Beating a Dead Horse

[Cecil <cecil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While Sterling keeps his cost down, his teams generally suck.  Even with a
putrid owner, we made it to the ECFs last year.  When have the Clips done
that?

Cecil


----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Jacobson <lancejacob@attbi.com>
To: Michael Gooen <callmebogie@yahoo.com>; <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Beating a Dead Horse


> Not sure you're following Jim's response, Mike.  He's saying that Sterling
> doesn't need Kenny's expiring contract in order to keep his costs down.
> He's got young players who now expect to be paid their market value once
the
> rookie contracts expire, and he'll keep one or none of them, trading them
> while they're cheap for draft picks or even younger players plus a little
> value.  He loves those picks because he gets talent for cheap money.
>
> Meanwhile, we do the opposite.  We give away picks or first-year players
in
> order to get mediocre, expensive players, and watch our young guys develop
> elsewhere.  Did we get value for Billups?  Mercer?  Moiso? JJ? Forte?  How
> about the 22nd pick we gave up this year?  For that money, we took on
> Bremer, who didn't make the second round, much less mid-first round.
Stupid
> management.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Gooen" <callmebogie@yahoo.com>
> To: <celtics@igtc.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 12:58 PM
> Subject: Beating a Dead Horse
>
>
> > Since it's always more fun to focus on trades that might have been than
on
> > an all-time-record loss.....
> >
> > Jim Hill wrote:
> >
> > <<The Clippers are under the cap and don't need the expiring contract.
> > Therefore Sterling has no need to trade for Anderson and throw that
> > money down the toilet while giving up two potential future all stars for
> > nothing.>>
> >
> > Wasn't suggesting that the Cs could have gotten both players, only one.
> > And I don't see what the Clippers' cap situation has to do with
anything.
> > If you're Donald Sterling, wouldn't you rather pay Kenny Anderson (or
> > anyone else) $9 million for one year and get draft picks to whom you can
> > pay $1-2 million for four or five years than pay someone like Olowokandi
> > or Brand $90 million over 6 years?
> >
> > Maybe I'm wrong about Sterling's motivations.  Let's see whether
> > Olowokandi and Miller get their money.
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