Re: Celtics Need To Trade Mark Blount Before The Deadline

[wayray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Don't you read Blount's statements in Shira's PR Releases, Dan?

Mihm and Blount will be coveted by a lot of teams, and someone will
overpay for them, just as they've done in the past for McCulloch and
McIllvaine,  Knight and James, Booth and Bradley.

Decent centers are valuable commodities and teams will seek them out via
free agency. 

Mihm shows great promise as a rebounder/defender and Blount is improving.
Ray




> ** Original Subject: Re: Celtics Need To Trade Mark Blount Before The Deadline
> ** Original Sender: "Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 05:10:56 -0800 (PST)

> 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

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