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Dorine - being shopped and not being with us next season are two 
very different things.  What exactly is Walker's present trade value?  
I can think of at least a dozen PF's - Duncan, Garnett (SF-PF), Webber, 
Nowitzki, J. O`Neal, McDyess, Brand, B. Wallace, R. Wallace, Martin, 
Gasol, Abdur-Rahim, maybe even Jamison (SF-PF), Howard (but not 
his contract), and the 108 yr. old Karl Malone- whom most teams would 
be happier with than Toine.  And many of these players have smaller 
contracts.  

And don't forget about recent draftees such as Troy Murphy, Amare 
Stoudemire, Kwame Brown, Chandler, Drew Gooden, Boozer, etc., who 
should be coming into their own while Toine's skills painfully
evaporate.  And then there will be those fresh faces who will be 
chosen early in this year's draft. 

So you have to factor in that we may have waited a bit too long to 
trade jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none Walker for ANYONE that 
resembles comparable value since he is hardly among the elite 
PF's of the league.  Not only that, but forget about trading him for a
Sprewell or Jalen Rose. We must retrieve both a PF and PG for him
in any such trade since we have few other options for acquiring either 
positions of need.

Egg