Francis to Denver?
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Hmm...have real doubts about our interest.
Here's where I bet that came from. In the Orlando papers this morning after the trade fell through there was apparently a) the standard denial from Orlando that any such trade was ever out there; and b) an ackowledgement by one of their front office people that they were talking to other teams about trades, but NOT about Francis. Three or four teams were mentioned, we were one of them.
Just looking at salaries and whatnot, I would think our targets would most likely be Tony Battie, Kelvin Cato, possibly Hedo, and maybe flakeboy (Fran Vasquez) if we could get his rights for cheap. I can easily see Battie because his contract is about the same size as the Philly three, and its ending. So could very well be us trying to dump some of those deadweight contracts for a tall/long frontcourt reserve with an ending deal. Cato has been injured all year, and that would have to be a salary dump. Hope not. Hedo is very interesting. Would not surprise me if Bonzi is moved, Kevin is promoted, and getting Hedo back would give Rick some tremendous versatility with he and Garcia off the bench (of course also the versatility to kill us with small non-rebounders at PF). And Vasquez...we've had success with international players before. And we've even dealt with players who's lives are run by their girlfriends, so who knows. Remember last year his draft profiles were calling him a poor man's Marcus Camby, and we could really use that.
In any case, that's probably what the radio boobs were seizing on rather than any true Francis talks with us.
Here's where I bet that came from. In the Orlando papers this morning after the trade fell through there was apparently a) the standard denial from Orlando that any such trade was ever out there; and b) an ackowledgement by one of their front office people that they were talking to other teams about trades, but NOT about Francis. Three or four teams were mentioned, we were one of them.
Just looking at salaries and whatnot, I would think our targets would most likely be Tony Battie, Kelvin Cato, possibly Hedo, and maybe flakeboy (Fran Vasquez) if we could get his rights for cheap. I can easily see Battie because his contract is about the same size as the Philly three, and its ending. So could very well be us trying to dump some of those deadweight contracts for a tall/long frontcourt reserve with an ending deal. Cato has been injured all year, and that would have to be a salary dump. Hope not. Hedo is very interesting. Would not surprise me if Bonzi is moved, Kevin is promoted, and getting Hedo back would give Rick some tremendous versatility with he and Garcia off the bench (of course also the versatility to kill us with small non-rebounders at PF). And Vasquez...we've had success with international players before. And we've even dealt with players who's lives are run by their girlfriends, so who knows. Remember last year his draft profiles were calling him a poor man's Marcus Camby, and we could really use that.
In any case, that's probably what the radio boobs were seizing on rather than any true Francis talks with us.
I really like Francis, but I don't know about replacing Bibby or Bonzi at all.
As far as getting Battie/Cato/Hedo/rights to Vasquez/maybe even Pat Garrity (proven good shooter), I'd like that. Cato's been injured for a bunch of the season, was just announced yesterday or so he had a cracked bone in his right foot, but if he could ever come back that would be nice.
As far as getting Battie/Cato/Hedo/rights to Vasquez/maybe even Pat Garrity (proven good shooter), I'd like that. Cato's been injured for a bunch of the season, was just announced yesterday or so he had a cracked bone in his right foot, but if he could ever come back that would be nice.
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