Free agent find?

[Peter Delevett <pdelevett@sjbj.com>]

Hey, everybody, what do people think about Washington's Ben Wallace? He's 6'9. 240, 24 y.o. and last year he put up some really nice rebounding & shotblocking #s in limited minutes:


G   67  MIN 16.8
FG PCT  51.8
BLK 1.1
ST  0.9
TO  0.4
PF 1.7
ORB 1.7
TOT 4.8
PTS 3.1

Against the Celtics in April, he posted game-highs of 13 rebounds, 5 steals and 4 blocked shots (along with 6 points). He's a free agent and made ca $320K last year -- could be a real blue collar muscle player a la Bo Outlaw & Mark Strickland. He also could be a cheaper, younger alternative to Popeye - they're the same size and, over the same minutes, Wallace puts up even rebounding #s and better shotblocking #s.