meaningful absences at the draft party/much ado about notta

Matt Bullard, Pig, Moochie and Carlos will be at the draft party.

Hard to derive too much symbolic value from the absentees, since Shandon, Cuttino and Steve will also not be present (and it would be rather foolish to imagine any of the three in a trade), but the players with the least amount of security to return next season would have been rather visible had they attended the draft party:

1. Kelvin Cato
2. Kenny Thomas
3. Walt Williams
4. $4.5 Million dollars in a suitcase.

Interesting to note, the Rockets have gone out of their way to voice Kelvin's value, and the likeliness of his return next year. Meanwhile, there is no place to be found where Kenny's virtues are extolled... perhaps b/c his value was far more obvious last year to other GMs than Cato's.

How is this to be read? Misinformation? The fact that CD praises Kelvin's recent dedication and Shandon, Cuttino and Steve's routine workouts blurs the issue.

Sorry KT, that you haven't had the honor of having your future confused recently.

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