RE: What will it take to drop salary?

["ryan nelson" <ryanmnelson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would hate to see rasheed in a celtic uniform. He is selfish and does
not care about winning.  We just got rid of Antoine, no reason to
replace him with a bigger jerk.  At least toine hustled when he played,
rasheed doesn't even do that.

rmn

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Subject: What will it take to drop salary?

Let's do our job speculating. Battie to Philly, RaWeed to the Cs. What
would 
it take?

Well, Philly doesn't have anyone with an expiring contract so forget
them.

We got three options I can think of with Portland:

Deal 1)Baker, Kedrick and a no. 1? 2004 salary of 36 M ----Doubtful....

Deal 2)Battie, JJ, Kedrick, Mills and Walta and a no. 1? 2004 salary of
42 M 
----Doubtful....

Deal 3)Battie, EWill, Mills and Kedrick? 2004 salary of 45 M
----Doubtful...

I can't figure what Danny thinks Portland would actually want from us to
make 
a deal work. Maybe Deal 3 if you add a number 1. But is it worth it just
to 
drop 7 million when it isn't far enough to make that much of a
difference and 
the free agent class is supposed to be weak....

I will still look to drop Battie for a free agent and some future pick
with 
someone else. That is a win-win sitz-e-ation....

Look at the Raptors, more promising. You got the following expiring 
contracts: Hakeem at 6.6 M, Curry at 2.8M, MoPete at 1.6M and Bradley at
1.3M. You 
don't think we could get a Battie and JJ, Kedrick or Walta and get
something 
done?....

DJessen33

DJessen33