Apples to Oranges

[Kim Malo]

At 08:18 PM 5/7/2006, Peter Delevett wrote:
>With all due respect to the estimable Kim Malo, there
>are certainly ways an Al-for-J. O'Neal trade can work.
>I've posted one in the past:
>
>Al
>Raef
>Scabs or Dickau
>Green (to sweeten the pill)
>
>According to RealGM, that goes down just fine. Now, I
>realize you'd be trading two "cornerstones of the
>future." But you'd get a 27-year-old All-Star who
>could team quite nicely with Pierce, Wally and the
>rest of the kids. If you don't want to lose Green,
>substitute the #7 pick instead. Indy really needs to
>rebuild, IMO - absent Artest, they're in the
>one-star-franchise category.

Peter, not for nothing but if you don't think I could figure out for 
myself that if you packaged enough salaries together they would 
eventually match up then clearly speaking of the estimable Kim Malo 
is rank sarcasm, which I doubt you intended. You can trade anyone for 
anyone if you package enough salaries together to make the numbers 
work. But that's not what I understood the conversation to be about. 
I was replying to the idea of doing it one for one. And until the Cs 
get big time under the cap or acquire a huge trade exception, that 
just can't happen.

And I still maintain that no disrespect to O'Neil as a player, but I 
don't see where acquiring him selves any of our major problems. To 
start with, it's not like he's tipped the Pacers, with better talent 
and coaching, over the edge.
Kim

Kim