D. West may be on outs in Seattle

[Adam Patterson]

You're right. This is what I found on the internet in regards to NBA Player trade rules:
 
From: http://www.nbpa.com/cba_articles/article-VII_8.php
 
 
(g) If a Team trades a player and the assignee Team subsequently terminates the Player’s Contract, the assignor Team shall not be permitted to sign the player to a new Contract until at least thirty (30) days have passed following the date all conditions to the trade were satisfied (or until at least twenty (20) days have passed in the case of a trade that occurs during the period from the last day of a Season through the first day of the following Regular Season).
 
 
As John Travolta once said in a movie:
 
"it is like English translated into Japanese then translated into English again!"
 

 
--- mark at 10thumbs.org wrote:
I'm 99% sure that the NBA changed the rule --- exactly b/c of Payton's
short stint in Atlanta --- so that a player waived cannot sign with the
same team he was waived from until the offseason.

That said, i'd be real interested in making a Scalabrine-like offer to
Delonte West this offseason if he's not resigned by Seattle.

(the other) mark


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If Seattle waive Delonte (not likely) then we can sign him after he clears
waivers (48 hours later) a la Gary Payton's short stint in Atlanta then
back to Boston (in 2005).



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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:43:03 -0800 (PST)
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I don't think you can reacquire a player you traded away until a full year
elapses.  So Delonte would be out of the question until July.


----- Original Message ----
From: Nathan A. <drivenkick43 at yahoo.com>
To: celtics at igtc.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:02:46 PM
Subject: D. West may be on outs in Seattle

Add me to the group who's glad we didn't get Damon S.
It reminds me of Bill Simmons "Chemacterility" column
(great read if you haven't seen it. Really captures
what's going right with the Celtics this year. Link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/080102&sportCat=nba
    )

Anyway. I hope prying Sam Cassell is priority No. 1
with Danny right now (though not at the expense of
Tony Allen, as some have suggested.
If Sam-I-Am isn't possible, how about old freine
Delonte West? He may be available, and cheap. He seems
to fit into that "Chemacterility" category.
This is from today's Seattle Times:


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