He can't play for most contenders. If he goes to Miami, Houston, San Antonio, he wouldn't play more minutes than he's already playing with the Clippers. He's the most overrated player in teh league. The only thing he does is jack it up. If you get beat out by Mobley, who is not exactly a halfcourt player, that tells you all you need to know about Maggette. He doesn't play defense, he is selfish and he doesn't do any of the little things to win. He thinks he's better than he really is. Contenders look for character guys. How many times do you hear players from contenders complain about minutes? If he's not calling out Dunleavy just to force a trade, if that's who he is as a player, who would want his complaints and the inflated salary for a one dimensional player? He wants to be a starter and he can't start for San Antonio, Houston or Miami. Maybe one of the loser teams. The only contender he can play for is Phoenix. He can jack it up all he wants.
A lot of teams value instant offense. If you can put the ball in the hoop as well as Maggette can you can get minutes anywhere. As weak as S.A. is at the wing position he could get serious minutes there. Pop will take care of the defense part. He could also get huge minutes in Miami who is also lacking in scoring and athleticism. He doesn't fit well in Houston but only because of our depth at SG/SF.
Crazy to see so many of yall attack the guy. Last year he was one of the few bright spots during their playoff stint. Settles for too many jump shots? 8 free throw attempts in 25mpg tells me different.
I sure wish there was a way that we could get him.The guy works hard in the offseason and whenever I see him he's crashing the boards,getting to the line,or catching fire and draining threes.I know he's streaky from outside,but CM's a freak and I'm sure we could find a home for him. It amazes me how "little dictators" like Dunleavy can pull the control freak deal and sit a guy like this to the detriment of the team. I sincerely hope he gets dealt SOMEWHERE before the deadline.
I like him too. Exchange Bonzi for him and our offense is unstoppable. He's the kind of slasher that would thrive with Tracy and Yao.
Here's the orginal article... http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cliprep9feb09195918,1,7431935.story?coll=la-headlines-sports Here is the article translated by a Clipper fan..... http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?S=282&F=2154#S=282&F=2154&T=97713 Maggette is sick, not being punished Conspiracy theorists, relax: Sixth man was too ill to play against Cavaliers. By Jason Reid, Times Staff Writer 8:08 PM PST, February 8, 2007 PHILADELPHIA — Although the Clippers seem to have many problems that might derail their season, Corey Maggette's situation hasn't been a distraction for the team, Clippers sources (Mike Dunleavy) said Thursday. The Clippers' sixth man again expressed frustration about his role after playing only 17 minutes in Tuesday's loss to the New York Knicks, blasting Coach Mike Dunleavy ("blasting" sounds so derogatory. If Jason Reid had any credentials, why doesn't he do some investigative journalism about Maggette's quote that Dunleavy's pulling his "stuff" again? Because it would require him to get off his butt, put down his sandwich, and actually doing something for a living rather than parroting Mike Dunleavy's thoughts) for leaving him on the bench for most of the second half while the Knicks overcame a 10-point halftime deficit. Maggette sat out Wednesday's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers because of what a Clippers official (Mike Dunleavy) said were flu-like symptoms, and his absence from the lineup and bench a day after criticizing Dunleavy prompted reporters to question whether the Clippers had privately taken disciplinary action against their second-leading scorer. There was no coverup, team sources (Mike Dunleavy) said. Maggette was so ill that he remained at the team hotel for the first half of Wednesday's game. The seven-year veteran wasn't at practice Thursday and might not play tonight. People (Mike Dunleavy) who saw Maggette on Thursday said he "looked horrible" and laughed about fans' conspiracy theories. (He looked horrible because of the blatant hatchet job that Mike Dunleavy did to him, provoking him to respond to the press after being so professional about it up until now and outclassing Mike Dunleavy to the point that Donald T. Sterling had to step in and read the riot act to Dunleavy). Meanwhile, the Clippers have lost three in a row and are 1-3 on a seven-game, 12-day trip, their longest of the season. Most in the organization (Mike Dunleavy--Maggette told DTS that he wanted to stay. He just got married and just bought a house. If Dunleavy wasn't here, Corey Maggette would be happy) already knew that Maggette would rather play elsewhere because of his feelings about Dunleavy, sources (Mike Dunleavy) said, and Maggette's agent earlier in the season requested a trade. General Manager Elgin Baylor (notice this is the only person who has been named in this article) has repeatedly tried to bring Maggette and Dunleavy together. (notice no mention of how DTS and Elgin Baylor had to step in and bring Corey Maggette and Mike Dunleavy together and tell Dunleavy that they're not trading Corey Maggette--somehow pseudo-journalist Jason Reid forgot that important detail). Dunleavy would commit to playing almost anyone who performed to his expectations (what are those expectations. Ask James Singleton, Paul Davis, and Yaroslav Korolev. They don't know. Ask Doug Christie and Luke Jackson? They don't know; they were just handed the minutes), many (who are the many? Once again, it's all innuendo. The only thing I can think of is that the many are the lackeys who sit by Dunleavy's side. No one else would say it) said, but Maggette rarely does (according to who, Mike Dunleavy? DTS and Elgin Baylor were happy enough to step in and intervene. None of the players feel this way--see their "business is business" attitude). In the loss to the Knicks, Maggette had no rebounds or deflections (a key statistic in Dunleavy's grading system) and missed several rotations on defense, sources (Mike Dunleavy) said. (Yet somehow Corey Maggette's 66% shooting on 2 out of 3 attempts is not a factor, while Doug Christie's 20% shooting on 1 out of 5 attempts means that he earns more minutes than Corey. Somehow, with Corey Maggette playing in the first half, the Clippers were able to build up a 10-point lead. Without Maggette, and with Doug Christie, the Clippers lose the game. And somehow, the Clippers still managed to outrebound New York). The situation hasn't been a problem in the locker room because the Clippers are a veteran team, players said, adding they admire Maggette for his work ethic and like him personally, but business is business. (notice how there are absolutely no quotes in this article. Shame on puppet Jason Reid. It's all innuendo, especially this "situation hasn't been a problem because the Clippers are a veteran team." Wonder how James Singleton feels about this? How many people are staying quiet because they know of the type of vendetta that Dunleavy has for Maggette, and that the team has already quit on Dunleavy because of it). Despite Maggette's latest comments, it's doubtful the team would trade him before the Feb. 22 deadline. (no quotes, just more Dunleavy propaganda and innuendo. Shame on you, Jason Reid, if only you had any shame to feel).
i got this trade from another message board, i like it what do you think.... http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=138~497~671~933~2423&teams=14~14~12~12~12 Incoming Players Corey Maggette Salary: $7,000,000 Years Remaining: 3 PTS: 15.2 REB: 5.7 AST: 2.0 PER: 17.56 Sam Cassell Salary: $6,850,000 Years Remaining: 2 PTS: 14.8 REB: 3.1 AST: 5.5 PER: 19.07 for Dorell Wright Salary: $1,325,160 Years Remaining: 2 PTS: 6.6 REB: 4.6 AST: 1.5 PER: 12.53 Jason Williams Salary: $8,250,000 Years Remaining: 2 PTS: 10.2 REB: 2.3 AST: 5.1 PER: 15.23 James Posey Salary: $6,392,100 Years Remaining: 1 PTS: 6.7 REB: 4.6 AST: 1.2 PER: 11.52
When has the guy ever been put in a position to win?! The only chance he had was last years playoffs when he took it to the basket, posted up, and grabbed rebounds while Brand hit 12ft jumpers...
http://www.latimes.com/sports/baske...1,7909426.column?coll=la-headlines-sports-nba For Clippers, bad isn't good, but worse would be better February 12, 2007 The Clippers can't even lose correctly. If they're not going to ascend, the least they could do is nosedive. Instead they're just trudging along into the worst region of the NBA, that seedy border town at the bottom of the playoffs or the low end of the lottery odds, probably out of Greg Oden-Kevin Durant range. This isn't a new development for them. As bad as they've been historically, they've never been consistently horrendous at the right times to get the right players. There's a stat that was trotted out when the Boston Celtics' 18-game losing streak hit 15. The last three teams with 15-game losing streaks wound up with the No. 1 pick in the draft. The Clippers were noticeably absent from that list. Didn't they have a monster losing streak during that period? Not quite long enough, it turns out. They had a 13-game losing streak near the end of the 2003-04 season, part of a skid in which they dropped 18 of their final 20 games. The Clippers finished 28-54 that season, but Orlando was 21-61 and wound up with the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery. The Magic selected Dwight Howard. The Clippers picked fourth and selected Shaun Livingston. Fast-forward to today, and the current issue of ESPN magazine sums it up best. Howard is on the cover, anointed as the newest "Next." Inside is a story on Livingston and how everyone — including Livingston himself — is waiting for him to finally live up to his potential. At the time we didn't realize the effect that lottery would have on the future of the Clippers. They could have planted Howard at center next to Elton Brand and had one of the top frontlines in the NBA, regardless of who played small forward. But these being the Clippers, you wonder if they would have made the wrong call and selected Emeka Okafor instead of Howard. Mike Dunleavy has been granted more personnel input than any other coach under Donald Sterling, and that's not a good thing. You want Dunleavy the coach, not the executive. He coaxed a past-its-prime Lakers team to the NBA Finals in his first coaching gig. But when he held both coaching and general manager duties with the Milwaukee Bucks, the team never had a winning record in his four years there. When he was just a coach in Portland, he came within a quarter of the Finals despite the combustible collection of players Bob Whitsitt had assembled on a roster that was long on talent but short on character, leadership and go-to guys. The Clippers' loss to Indiana on Sunday was a reminder of one of Dunleavy's personnel gaffes. Danny Granger was on the board when the Clippers had the 12th pick in the 2005 draft, but because of Dunleavy's fixation on Yaroslav Korolev, the Clippers took the Russian teenager. Granger went to the Pacers and has contributed much more than Korolev. Even when Granger was taken to the hospital following a hard fall Sunday, the nine points he'd scored before leaving were three times as many as Korolev has for the season. But the move that might hamper the Clippers the most is the four-year contract extension Dunleavy signed. If things don't improve on a roster loaded with locked-in players, will Sterling want to fire Dunleavy and keep paying him more than $5 million a year through 2011? We didn't think this would even be a question after the Clippers had their best postseason. The NBA works that way now. In the last few years we've seen the Pistons, Heat, Nets and Lakers change coaches within a year of advancing to the conference finals or beyond. Dunleavy's already inhibiting one key player: Corey Maggette. His refusal to play Maggette more is keeping one of the top scoring threats off the court and isn't helping the cause of a team that ranks 19th in the NBA in points per game. For what it's worth, according to 82games.com the most effective Clippers lineup has been Livingston, Brand, Maggette, Cuttino Mobley and Tim Thomas, with a plus/minus of plus 38. With 10 days until the trading deadline, sending Maggette off won't cure the Clippers' woes, either. When it comes to providing the spark that Chris Kaman needs, shipping Maggette would be about as effective as Kaman's haircut. It wouldn't help Sam Cassell pull out of his worst shooting season since the 1999 lockout year. It wouldn't remind the rest of the players to keep pounding the ball in to Brand. Brand, even if he isn't up to his career-best play of last season, is still good enough to give the Clippers a shot at winning games. Which, given their current position, might not be such a good thing. * J.A. Adande can be reached at j.a.adande@latimes.com. To read more by Adande go to latimes.com/adandeblog.
http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_5204759 Another Sterling moment Rich Hammond, Columnist Article Last Updated: 02/10/2007 10:46:42 PM PST Well, Clippers, it was fun while it lasted. We'll always remember the good times. The exciting playoff run last spring and the ... OK, well, that's pretty much it, so the Clippers better be prepared to show those highlights for the next decade. To be fair, the NBA coroner hasn't arrived. In fact, the Clippers would be in the playoffs if the season ended today and yes, if the Clippers make the postseason they could go on some miracu- lous run. But they won't, at this rate, because this team is closer to a total collapse than it is a turnaround. That's not Chris Kaman's fault, even though he has been a $52 million stiff, and it's not Shaun Livingston's fault for being too young or Elton Brand's fault for perhaps being tired after a long summer of basketball. The blame for the Clippers' struggles, especially of late, falls at the top, with owner Donald Sterling, with general manager Elgin Baylor and with coach Mike Dunleavy, for their inability to get their act together. This team is falling apart because it can't figure out what to do with its sixth man, Corey Maggette. Think about it. The Clippers have Brand, one of the best post men in the game, and Sam Cassell, perhaps the smartest point guard, leading a deep and talented lineup, and they're imploding over their sixth man? Dunleavy and Maggette can't coexist. We know this. They tried to put on happy faces for a while, but it came to a head again last week when Maggette publicly lashed out about his lack of playing time. This, remember, came less than a month after Sterling, Baylor, Dunleavy and Maggette came together in the Staples Center tunnel, sang "Kumbaya" and decided they would try to be a happy family. Well, that lasted a while, didn't it? It's now nothing short of a clown show, and the men wearing the suits should have known better. Who's running this team, anyway? Dunleavy wants to trade Maggette, Sterling wants to keep him and Baylor, well, who knows? He seems to be in the middle, trying to placate both sides. The lion's share of the blame here falls on Sterling. His involvement in the whole thing has turned the Maggette affair from a sticky situation to a tar pit. Because who isn't going to listen to the boss? Sterling is making himself look like L.A.'s version of George Steinbrenner, minus the mean streak. Donald, if Maggette is more important to you than Dunleavy, fire Dunleavy. If Baylor isn't doing the job you want, fire Baylor. But trying to play all sides and have this magically work out, it just isn't going to happen. You'd think that a man with Sterling's business background would understand management. With the trade deadline approaching, Sterling needs to ask himself one question: What's more important, his admiration for Maggette or his team's chances of making the playoffs? Dunleavy's feelings aren't going to change. He doesn't like Maggette's defense or attitude, and the road-trip outburst just sealed the deal. Now it's time to take the handcuffs off Baylor, let him do his job and make a respectable trade, one that will allow the team to focus on something other than internal strife. This could have been the Clippers' season. Instead, it's a mess, but maybe it's not too late to fix. Don't do it: As the Feb.22 trade deadline approaches, the hottest non-Maggette trade stories center around Memphis' Pau Gasol, with Chicago as a possible trade partner for the Grizzlies. Sounds good for the Bulls, except the latest rumors have the Grizzlies seeking two players from a group that includes Luol Deng, Andres Nocioni, Ben Gordon and Kirk Hinrich. Thanks, but no thanks. Nocioni is 27 and the other three are 25 or younger. That quartet forms the core of a group that has kept the Bulls competitive in the ultra-tough Central Division and should keep them strong for years to come. A versatile 7-foot center such as Gasol is nothing to sneeze at, but the Bulls can't afford to lose two of their top four scorers. One player and a draft pick? Sure, and if that happens, watch out for the Bulls. Numbers game: Is there something about The Palace of Auburn Hills that makes NBA players lose their minds? First the Indiana Pacers go charging into the seats and now, the Brian Cook incident. Cook, bothered by a lack of recent playing time, dropped his warmups into Lakers coach Phil Jackson's lap as he left the bench and, well, there's really no good way to spin this one in Cook's favor. But does Cook have a point? Let's look at some numbers provided by the stat gurus at 82games.com. Using a simple formula known as "net points," which measures a team's point totals when a particular player is on or off the court, Cook is the Lakers' fifth-most efficient player with a plus-17 rating. That puts Cook behind Kobe Bryant (plus-175), Kwame Brown (plus-93), Lamar Odom (plus-63) and Maurice Evans (plus-51) and far ahead of Smush Parker (minus-35) and Andrew Bynum (minus-75). And Vladimir Radmanovic, who competes with Cook for playing time? He's a minus-275. Ouch. Baby Shaq? The NBA slam-dunk contest, which stopped being interesting after Spud Webb threw down, could get an infusion of life if Orlando's Dwight Howard pulls off what he's thinking. Howard told the Orlando Sentinel last week he's considering a dunk so thunderous that it would bring down the basket support, something Shaquille O'Neal made famous a few years back. "That's what I have people telling me: tear it down!" Howard said. "But you know how hard that is to do? I know Shaq has done it. I don't know. It's never been done (in the slam-dunk contest)." Take that: Dwyane Wade is known as being perhaps the most mild-mannered of all the NBA stars, but Wade couldn't resist taking a jab at Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki, who, in the estimation of Miami followers, hasn't given enough credit to the Heat for its NBA Finals win over the Mavericks. "At the end of the day," Wade told the Miami Herald, "you're remembered for what you did at the end. ... Dirk says they gave us the championship last year, but he's the reason they lost the championship, because he wasn't the leader that he's supposed to be in the closing moments." For those interested in calendar-circling, Dallas hosts Miami on Feb. 22. rich.hammond@dailynews.com (818) 713-3611
Los Angeles sure loves their drama don't they? I'm close to the L.A. area, and me and coworkers have been sick as can be. Wouldnt be suprised if there was some flu bug going around the whole area and Maggette would have it but usually its not just one guy on the team having it? Donald Sterling and Elgin Baylor had a good few seasons run of making safe decisions and building a team instead of looking to dump off people and get by cheap. Now they're starting to show their old ways again and how their incompetence can cripple a franchise. It may not be the best but actually one of the RIGHT things to do here would be a cheap move - trade Magette for some expiring contracts or something and get rid of the distraction. It doesn't make sense really.
trade maggette now! or send Sam to a contender! Sam needs to go down with Horry as some of the most legendary playoff players of all time. thus the legacy of the 93 Rockets will be that of one of the greatest team on the planet we know today as the earth.
Well, tonight Maggette got 38 minutes on the floor and earned 10 FTs. Of course, the Clips got smoked in Detroit anyway. They had no chance without Elton Brand.
The Clippers should blow it up and rebulid. If i were the Clippers i would: Trade Cassell to Miami for James Posey's expiring contract and a future Miami first round draft pick. Trade Corey Magggette to Charlotte for Toronto's 2007 draft pick. Release Rebracca Try to unload Aarron Williams Start over with a core of Kaman/Brand/Livingston. Surround them with the right pieces......
