El-Amin revisited

[Eggcentric@xxxxxxx]

< With El Amin, we already know. He's been here, he's played on a
few teams, he's been fired every time. The incessant harping about El 
Amin is monotonous. He's just not good enough. > - Shawn Niles

< Khalid El-Amin has only played for one team.  He played 50 games for 
the Bulls in his rookie year, 2000-01. > - JB

Couldn't help but finally speak up after reading so many of your rave
reviews about El Amin's sparkling play in one Shawbs game several 
summers ago.  

For what it's worth, JB, I agree with you that we probably should have 
signed a veteran PG (instead of James) to share the duties with Banks 
this season.  But El-Amin or Omar Cook as that player... I'd sooner
James.

As you state, El-Amin played in 50 games for CHICAGO in 2000-01, 
prior to being released. 

He was then given a shot by BOSTON in the Shaw's Summer League,
prompting yet another classic Wallace quote.

    ''Basically what I told him (El-Amin) was that if you look at 
    the 2001 draft, he would have been coming out this year had 
    he decided to stay (for his senior season in college), and if you 
    look at the point guards drafted, Raul Lopez, Jamaal Tinsley, 
    Tony Parker, I honestly think he would have been the first 
    point guard taken.''  - Chris Wallace 

Wallace opted to sign Palacio instead of El-Amin. 
  
El-Amin subsequently signed for $465,850 with DALLAS in 2001-02, but 
was released by them prior to the season.  

In Sept, 2002, MIAMI signed El-Amin, but I am unsure of the terms of 
that contract since he never played one game for Miami nor does he
appear on their 2002-03 payroll.

Egg
B 
August, 2003 - 

< A jury awarded $54,000 to a man who said he was assaulted three 
years ago by former Connecticut basketball star Khalid El-Amin. Curtis 
Frazier, a Minneapolis computer chip inspector, contended he sustained 
eye socket, nose and facial nerve injuries. He said the trouble happened 
when he tried to enter an elevator occupied by El-Amin and his friends. 
The jury awarded Frazier $40,000 for pain and suffering plus $4,000 for 
medical bills last Thursday. It came back Friday and awarded $10,000 
in punitive damages. >