Re: Celtics Need To Trade Mark Blount Before The Deadline

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neither Blount or Mihm are anything to write home about. They're the soft
spread margarine type. And who cares if he's mad at management. It's
management that has put up with him till his recent mini surge. And how do
you know he's disturbed with management. This is one of those posts that
state something or create something without facts.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Here's what the Celtics are looking at:
>
> Mark Blount will opt out of his contract after the season and become a
free agent.
>
> He's young, he's decent, he's developing, he's a center, and he's angry
with the current
> Celtics management for the various trades that have removed his friends on
the team
> and for having lost the guy O'Brien, who Blount credits as developing him
into a legitimate
> NBA Big Man.
>
> And there will be teams out there who are willing to sign him at $5 mil. a
year
> with their Mid-Level Exception.
>
> For the Celtics to re-sign him, they will have to go above the Mid-Level
> exception.
>
> And he's simply not worth it to them.
>
> Because  the Celtics have to deal with the possibility of Chris Mihm
opting out of his contract
> too; they plan on going after a widebody, they have LaFrentz coming back,
> Perkins is on the horizon, and Rafael Araujo or a high school
> bigman may be awaiting them in the draft.
>
> So, it's either trade Blount now and get something for him or overpay him
or
> lose him for nothing.
>
> The first option is the most prudent, and as you usually have to give up
something
> to get something, and Blount along with Mills, et al. may appeal to a lot
of teams,
> especially contending teams that need frontcourt help and are looking for
cap
> relief.
>
> Ray