Re: David Aldridge on free agency

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> See, this is the kind of thing you'd have to consider with any Antoine
> trade. Let's say they trade Antoine for Terrell Brandon's retiring 
contract.
> Suddenly, they have the room to use the mid-level exception. If you land 
a
> guy like Odom with the exception, you've effectively traded Antoine for 
a
> younger, better, cheaper player. Aldridge is just speculating, of 
course,
> but it is a great illustration of the need to not judge an Antoine trade
> strictly on the players that come back in return.

How many FAs are available for the MLE that would be an adequate 
replacement for Walker?  Suppose we could work out a trade of Walker for 
Terrell Brandon and, let's say, Marc Jackson.  (This trade works according 
to RealGM.)  Odom would probably be #1.  But let's say Sterling matches. 
Who else?

Francis

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> Mark
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> http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/aldridge_david/1576175.html
> <http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/aldridge_david/1576175.html>