Posey's Decision to Leave

[Noah Evans]

The team blew it with Posey. AFAIK the "competitive" offer only came
*after* Posey was getting higher offers from other teams. Think about
it from his perspective, he gets to choose between a team that has
nickel and dimed him at every term or a team(the hornets) that
respected him and acted like they wanted him through the entire
process. I don't fault Posey's reasoning at all. Look at the Brand
debacle for another example.

Noah

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Adam Patterson
<patterson.adam at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I was just thinking about James Posey for some reason and I seriously question his decision to leave our World Champion Boston Celtics.
> Danny definitely played the cards right by offering the additional third year in the contract and it was for more than enough money (almost $20 million!).
> It has been said that Posey made the best business decision by taking more money and an extra year of security in the contract, but it has also been said that it was slightly greedy.
> In regards to his family and their situation, James would definitely be one the best people to judge what is the best decision for them now and in the long-term, but I honestly think that they would have been better off staying in Boston.
> It goes without saying that Pierce and Garnett will be Celtics-for-life form here on out (unless something happens- **"touch wood" that it doesn't**), and there is a very good chance that Ray will be also. (BTW, it will be very interesting to see what happens to Ray Allen in the next couple of years, as Danny Ainge was in a similar position in the late-'80s and he got traded to Sacramento in the hopes of building the Celtics for the future with Joe Kleine. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Ainge for more information. Peh, we all know what happened next...)
> Anyway, James Posey is in a similar boat to Pierce, Garnett and Ray Allen in that he is in his early-thirties and his physical skills are in decline. So his best bet may have been to stay with the "Big Three" and ride this ship to the end rather than taking a gamble with another team and risk getting traded. Not to mention the stress of uprooting the family once again. We all know how much moving sux- James Posey and co. haved moved 5 times in the last 10 years:
> http://www.nba.com/playerfile/james_posey/career_stats.html
> So, all-in-all, I am disappionted in James for leaving to take a *bit* more money and I honestly think that Danny Ainge did his best to retain him for the next few years...
> Tony Allen, now is your time to shine mate.
> Cheers
> Adam
> P.S. an ex-girlfriend of mine (Melissa) may be reading this list on the sly and i reckon she is a real mole. Sorry, I just HAD to say that!
> :)
>
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