Gerald Wallace - 6 Years, $57 Million w/Bobcats

[Purple Reign]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2933311

Gerald Wallace, the "New" Jermaine O'Neal. Sit on the bench for 3 years here in Sac, blows up and gets a huge deal somewhere else.

How does that feel Kings fans? (which I am one of course)

 

[LPKingsFan]

Slighly under $10mil/year? Pretty good deal if you ask me. Much better than paying Rashard Lewis $15/per.

 

[kingzzzfan4ever]

Inevitably, Wallace was still going to be a Bobcat. I knew MJ and the franchise weren't going to part with him. I expect the Bobcats to put up a good fight next season with J-Rich, Wallace, and Okafor in the lineup.

 

[Bricklayer]

Hmm... Gerald at 6yrs $57mil or Rashard at 6 yrs $126mil , which would you take?

 

[AleksandarN]

Hmm... Gerald at 6yrs $57mil or Rashard at 6 yrs $126mil , which would you take?

Man is the Magic dumb or what?

 

[kingzzzfan4ever]

Yeah, Lewis's contract is ugly, overpaid, definitely would take Wallace's 6 yrs. at 57 million. Wallace is younger and has a lot more left in him compared to Lewis. Not to mention, Wallace is a great dunker!

 

[Vlade4GM]

Very good deal. Charlotte has got a nice looking team for next year, they got to stay healthy though.

 

[ParniValjak]

This is a bit of a bargain for the Bobcats IMHO! A very nice deal for a VERY good player. He is getting less than half of what Lewis is getting but he sure as hell isn't half the player that Lewis is!!

Charlotte did a great job here. Orlando, well they ****ed up! Not only did they give Lewis a MONSTEROUS contract but they also lost a draft pick AND Darko Milicic in order to get him

 

[Vlade4GM]

This is a bit of a bargain for the Bobcats IMHO! A very nice deal for a VERY good player. He is getting less than half of what Lewis is getting but he sure as hell isn't half the player that Lewis is!!

Charlotte did a great job here. Orlando, well they ****ed up! Not only did they give Lewis a MONSTEROUS contract but they also lost a draft pick AND Darko Milicic in order to get him

Billy Donovan ain't looking so bad now.

 

[Fresno King]

Good for Gerald. Expansion drafts be damned though, if you know what I mean.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

http://www.kingsfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=423310#post423310

Next year they probably lose Wallice [sic], and the next year Okafor, ECT.

Oh-for-one so far, chief...

 

[Superman]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2933311

Gerald Wallace, the "New" Jermaine O'Neal. Sit on the bench for 3 years here in Sac, blows up and gets a huge deal somewhere else.

How does that feel Kings fans? (which I am one of course)

I'd love to have Gerald now, even for $57 million, but I'm not bitter that we didn't keep him.

He's a good player, and I'm glad he got rewarded for his hustle.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So, you still think Petrie made the right decision, Supes?

 

[VF21]

So, you still think Petrie made the right decision, Supes?

I do - but only because I still firmly believe Wallace wouldn't have grown anywhere near as much here as he has there. I think the whole experience helped him to mature and I doubt if he would have seen much time behind Peja and then Artest. And without major minutes I don't think his game would have shown that much improvement. He needed the starting role and he's blossomed with it.

I wish him all the best but I haven't changed my mind.

 

[Superman]

So, you still think Petrie made the right decision, Supes?

I'd rather have him than not, but I don't begrudge Petrie for the decision he made. I wish we'd not given Peeler a second-year option, and that would have solved everything, but hindsight is 20/20. When the expansion draft came around, we didn't have anyone else to leave unprotected.

And, at the time, Gerald hadn't proven that he could be a consistent option off the bench. We were still trying to win a championship - whether we were still actual contenders or not is another topic - and Gerald would have been the 8th or 9th man with the way the roster was comprised. Peja was THE MAN, coming off a 25ppg season.

What else could Petrie have done?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I do - but only because I still firmly believe Wallace wouldn't have grown anywhere near as much here as he has there. I think the whole experience helped him to mature and I doubt if he would have seen much time behind Peja and then Artest. And without major minutes I don't think his game would have shown that much improvement. He needed the starting role and he's blossomed with it.

This requires me to take it on faith that, had Petrie kept Wallace, that he would have traded Stojakovic for another small forward. I'll concede that Wallace may not have ever developed playing for Adelman, but anything else requires me to assume facts not entered into evidence.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I'd rather have him than not, but I don't begrudge Petrie for the decision he made. I wish we'd not given Peeler a second-year option, and that would have solved everything, but hindsight is 20/20. When the expansion draft came around, we didn't have anyone else to leave unprotected.

Didn't we protect Songaila, or is my memory fuzzy on that point?

 

[VF21]

Songaila wasn't protected, IIRC. He was a restricted free agent and couldn't be drafted. But I could be mistaken.

 

[VF21]

This requires me to take it on faith that, had Petrie kept Wallace, that he would have traded Stojakovic for another small forward. I'll concede that Wallace may not have ever developed playing for Adelman, but anything else requires me to assume facts not entered into evidence.

And if Petrie hadn't traded Peja for another small forward, we might well be the ones with the albatross Stojakovic contract. And Wallace would still be nothing more than second-best...

And none of that is based on facts not entered into evidence.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

That's not what I meant; I mean, instead of trading Stojakovic for another SF, perhaps he would have packaged him with one of our "tradeable pieces" for a PF. Or maybe he does, and Wallace starts at SG; it's not like Martin looked like a lead-pipe cinch to start at that point.

 

[VF21]

That's not what I meant; I mean, instead of trading Stojakovic for another SF, perhaps he would have packaged him with one of our "tradeable pieces" for a PF. Or maybe he does, and Wallace starts at SG; it's not like Martin looked like a lead-pipe cinch to start at that point.

Yeah, and maybe Webbber would never have been traded. Sorry, dear S£im, but you seem to be trying to posit a lot of "perhaps" and "maybes" into the equation.

I'm saying there is just as likely the possibility that we wouldn't have traded Peja. And there is just as likely the possibility that had Wallace stayed, he would never have gained the confidence he did in Charlotte because he wouldn't have had the same opportunities.

Wallace starting at SG? Instead of Bonzi? Remember, it was Bonzi's position until he got injured and Martin stepped in...

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I'm saying there is just as likely the possibility that we wouldn't have traded Peja. And there is just as likely the possibility that had Wallace stayed, he would never have gained the confidence he did in Charlotte because he wouldn't have had the same opportunities.

See, I have a different point of view about that: once Webber blew out his knee, I was dead certain that Stojakovic would get traded, eventually... it just annoyed me that Webber got traded first. I knew that one of two things were going to happen: either the Maloofs would choose Webber over Stojakovic, and trade him, or they would choose Stojakovic over Webber, and Stojakovic would prove that he wasn't worthy (which he did), and they'd trade him, anyway.

So, if it seems like I'm trying to "posit a lot of 'perhaps' and 'maybes' into the equation," it's because the expansion draft came after Webber blew out his knee, and after that point, I never once thought that Stojakovic wouldn't be gone sooner or later. The notion of keeping Wallace AND Stojakovic never occurred to me.

 

[chrisnu]

Awesome. Wallace and Richardson on the same team are going to be very fun to watch.

Here's hoping they actually show some Bobcats games on TV.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

League Pass is $240 for the season, and it's the best money you'll spend all year.