« Reply #36 on: March 21, 2012, 04:44:51 PM »
From Wojo:
Y! Sources: Spurs emerge as frontrunners for Boris Diaw should he clear waivers.
Looks like it's Hollins and Fesenko then?
It's amazing how Danny didn't trade for one of these guys.
It is mind-boggling. Hickson, Diaw, Turiaf: they all must have been cheap to acquire and we had the contracts/2nd round picks to spare.
These teams wanted players and picks for these guys. That's why nobody else traded for them either. For Hickson it was reported they wanted Bradley. Turiaf was included in a trade so we coldn't have gotten him. For Diaw we would have had to trade picks AND 9 million in salary....
We had nothing to trade that we were willing to give up for these guys. We weren't giving up a #1 and we weren't giving up any players of value.
O'Neal had no value and neither did Dooling which is what it would have cost in order to make a trade for Diaw salary wise...
You can send all those reports to the trash can.
All these guys would be available for some money savings - in the form of cash or by the total salary of the players going out being smaller - and/or a 2nd round pick.
Major failing by Ainge.
You can say what you want but none of those players could be traded to us as a cost savings. Since we're over the cap we had to trade dollar for dollar so sorry in our case your wrong...
Dollar for dollar? Just has to be within 125% + $100k. Over the cap teams save money in player for player trades all the time.
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