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[Kim Malo]

At 11:27 AM 9/7/2007, Eggcentric at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 9/7/07 11:04:00 AM, kmalo17 at verizon.net writes:
>
>
> > One reason is because if he's good enough, he could make more money -
> > after 3 years the Cs would have full Bird rights with him and so
> > could sign him to a higher renewal contract than they can under early
> > Bird rights.
> >
> > Kim
> >
>True enough.   But where are his minutes (in order to prove himself) going
>to come from?

No idea and a different question. Theoretically if he earns them in 
practice, etc then he gets them; but I'm certainly not going to try 
to predict Doc's rotations. All I was doing was answering Gene's 
comment about there being no advantage to 3 year over 2 from the 
player's perspective.

>He's presently behind Garnett, Perk, Scal, Pollard, and
>Powe on the "bigs" depth chart.   He's the type of prospect who fans love,
>but I'm not convinced that Danny/Doc are all that sold on him to be any
>kind of immediate help.

Up to him to prove them wrong then.
Kim