Re: antoine trade rumor

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The first thing that came to my mind was that someone--no idea who--might 
be packaging a lot of money to Boston to offset the Baker contract.  Before 
people line up to tell me how many ways I'm wrong, I freely admit I never 
did get the hang of all the monetary considerations in trades nowdays.  I 
miss the times when team A and team B simply traded players.  Math makes my 
head hurt.

But more to the point, I am disinclined to think that Walker is on the 
table to begin with.  His personality is such that if something like this 
was going on, he'd have made SOME kind of public comment by now.  Plus, 
Coach O'Brien has always been solidly behind Walker, reminding everyone in 
earshot that the barrage of threes was O'Brien's idea, not Walker's.  I 
just think New York wouldn't be a good fit for Walker--and vice versa.  If 
he went ANYWHERE--and I frankly doubt this--it would be Chicago.

At 10:50 AM 6/20/03 -0400, Kim Malo wrote:

>Not even close. There has to be more to it for players if there's any 
>truth in it. Thomas only earns about 5MM.
>
>At 08:57 AM 6/20/2003 -0400, Shawn Niles wrote:
>>Does that even work money-wise? We are taking back zero dollars in salary.
>>
>>
>>>From: Frederick Hurley <Frederick.T.Hurley.Jr.01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: Celtics List <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: Re: antoine trade rumor
>>>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:17:54 -0400
>>>
>>>On 6/20/03 2:06 AM, Josh Ozersky wrote:
>>>
>>> > We're hearing from sources that a blockbuster trade is on the table 
>>> involving
>>> > 3 teams. The trade would include Boston, New York and Seattle. The 
>>> trade would
>>> > have Antoine Walker going to New York, Kurt Thomas and 9 going to 
>>> Seattle, and
>>> > Boston receiving 12, 14, and 30.
>>>
>>>So we'd have 12, 14, 16, 20, and 30?  Yeesh.
>>
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