Brian Grant

[Kim Malo]

At 06:20 PM 9/5/2006, Peter Delevett wrote:
>Sounds good to me. Aside from being smart cap
>management, I refuse to believe that even a moderately
>healthy Grant can't help this team more than Secaucus
>Red.
>
> >>The Celtics, with 17 players under contract, are
>holding on to PF Brian Grant because of his $1.8
>million salary slot, which could be used to facilitate
>a trade down the road.

Well it wasn't exactly news. Same thing reported in the Boston papers 
a month or so back.

Also, that's great, but a) what makes you think he's a moderately 
healthy Grant rather than an aging fast 34 year old Grant with bad 
knees and b) we're going to have to be down to 15 for the season, so 
who are you planning to cut to keep him. I don't want Scalabrine 
around any more than anyone else does, but cutting him still means 
paying him, which means other players you might want around won't be.

And lets face it, Grant's expiring contract isn't exactly the sort of 
thing people are going to be interested in acquiring because of all 
the cap space it will give them, 'cause it won't ($1.8Million). So 
keeping him to deal also means who else are we going to lose on top 
of the person we gave up to keep him on the roster, because that's 
all he would be - a trade equation balancer so we can trade someone 
else who will be the person the trade is really all about and who 
therefore will have to be someone the other team wants, not just 
getting rid of our trash. Sounds good in theory but since it doesn't 
look like Danny's going to get a deal done before the season, may not 
be such a good idea in the end.
Kim