RE: THE BIG PICTURE

["Jim Hill" <jahill199@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A big hopeful "maybe" is the best you, or anyone, can even say.  What if
Walker got injured?  What if you had held onto him and he opted out to be
spiteful for not getting his extension and you got nothing at all.
(Doubtful, but possible.)

No one wanted Walker until he appealed to Cuban directly over the summer.
No one.  To wait two years and hope you got more for him, while listening to
him whine everyday because he was only getting million$ this year and next
year, but not the following 6 years, is ludicrous.  To have a player, any
player, come out and say that the style of play was going to be how he
wanted and not move him would be foolish.

You seem to believe that Walker the "cap space" has higher potential value
then Walker the "player".  That is a heck of a legacy isn't it.  Some praise
for keeping him.

The team is better off without him under the current circumstances.  IMO.
Let's see if Dallas is coming to the same conclusion.  His name is being
tossed around it seems.

I'll take a LaFrantz/Welsh/#1/? (Mills) in the hand Vs. such a big maybe in
two years.  But I'm not a gambler.  Risk taker yes, gambler no.

To each their own.

<Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Giovanello [mailto:sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:10 PM
To: jahill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Celtics
Subject: Re: THE BIG PICTURE


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Name another trade available.
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Available just before the season?  I would be hard pressed to.  Available at
this years deadline?  At next years deadline?  I know we could have done
better.



Jim Hill wrote:

>I think Ainge has done a good job upgrading limited talent and shedding
some
>lousy contracts that he inherited.
>
>Walker and Delk for Welsch, LaFrantz, Mills and a #1.  The Celt's were not
>going to pay Walker max money and years and he wasn't going to play
anything
>but his own "game".  Name another trade available.  Anyone?  Egg, what
>offers were on the table for Walker?  Would anyone have even taken Delk
>straight up?  We get a couple good players with OK contracts (One RC and
one
>high contract), cap room, some potential in a #1 pick and then clean out a
>contract and an unhappy player.  Works for me.
>
>The Clippers passed on Walker, the Chicago trade went tumbling down the
>road, if it was for real.  What team ever wanted to trade for Walker?
>
>A washed up Ellison err..Battie, one of my favorites in Williams (who would
>have been unrestricted at the end of the year and who wasn't going to be
>resigned so we would have lost him for nothing) and Kedrick, a black eye of
>Wallace's and reason enough to take his keys away, in return for Davis,
Mihm
>(a restricted FA) and Stewart.  Three guys who are all tradable on their
own
>for three that were not tradable on their own.  Celtics win this big long
>term.
>
>Vin Baker.  Not Danny's making, but is his problem.  Until this issue is
put
>to rest this team has a major handicap.
>
>As long as the second, third and fifth highest paid players on a 15 man
>roster are not on the court because of medical issues a NBA team is not
>going to compete.  Period.
>
>I am sure that THE BIG PICTURE includes having those players or their
>replacements being off IR.  I am waiting for the audition as well.  So far
>he has moved in the right direction, regardless of what "the class clown
>formally known as a basketball player" Barkley thinks.
>
><Jim
>
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