RE: bewildered

["Sean Giovanello" <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I cannot imagine this team protecting Raef in the expansion draft and it
is beyond even my wildest dreams that the Bobcats or any other team
would want him at that price.  To get rid of Raef, Dallas gave up a # 1
pick (of debatable value but many of you Walker types believe this is a
huge deal, Mill's contract which translates into a deadline chit, and a
promising young player in Jiri who would have been ideal for Dallas
coming off the bench).  Depending on your views, they either were forced
to take on one of the worst contracts in the game which comes along with
a poor player and poorer attitude or they saw that Walker would have
value to them on the court this year and would be easily tradeable next
year for value (which Raef wont be) and could not say no to this deal.
Regardless, this deal was motivated by Cuban's desire to be rid of a
horrible horrible mistake in signing Raef to those dollars and those
years.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Art Silva
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:16 PM
To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: bewildered

The question at hand is not whether Raef is better than Blount or even
if he
is worth his contract. It's who do you protect in the expansion draft.
There
is no way the Bobcats take a 10 million dollar contract. They only have
to
take 14 players from the 27 teams available. Add to that the fact that
they
have a significantly lower salary cap it is unlikely they'll saddle
themselves with a large contract.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Niles" <shizzjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <karadag1@xxxxxxxxx>; <renrile@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <celtics@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: bewildered


> Raef has 3 years left after this year. After this year 40 million of
his
> salary will have been paid meaning the C's owe him 30 mil over the
next 3
> years. I don't think that is all that bad for a mobile passing big man
who
> can shoot. I've never bought all the talk about how Raef is
untradeable.