E Will trades

[Mark Piotrowski <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a card-carrying member of the Eric Williams' fan club, I'm not 
terribly excited about losing him, but we have to improve.  The key 
to trading Eric is to teams who would produce significant cap space.

How about Eric Wiliams and next year's #1 (hoping it'll be a low one) 
to Golden St. for Danny Fortson & their #1 this year.

I think its a long shot but they need to dump as much salary as 
possible to show Arenas they'll sign him to a big contract next year 
if he stays (which he *has* indicated he'd like to do) for a tender 
offer this year.

next year they'll have Sura, Chris Mills & Foyle coming off the 
books.  Add Williams to that and that's a big chunk of change for 
arenas.  they also avoid a lottery level salary this year.

Fortson might not be the cheeriest guy on the block but he can 
rebound when given the opportunity.  maybe ainge can convince Obrien 
to use Fortson as Pitino wouldn't:  starting PF.  we need some nasty. 
and fortson brings that.

we also then have 3 #1 picks to package and move up for an impact player.



I've also heard Memphis would like to get rid of Jason Williams' 
contract.  Since he's a BYC player it looks like the salaries match 
but I can't get it to work on RealGM but something like:

EWill for Jwill (and salaries).

This gives Memphis loads of cap room next year (with Person, Brevin 
Knight and Williams (eric and Jason) coming off ttheir books  -- they 
coudl signe someone to a one-year deal, then roll that space over and 
add it to Swift & Mike Miller so Jerry West can make his rumored run 
at Kobe when he becomes a free  agent.

- mark piotrowski
gainesville, fl