Sacramento Loves Chris Webber , Last Year San Antonio urged Tim Duncan to stay with Billboards and Phone Calls to Sports Radio shows . Detriot did nothing to keep Grant Hill . They just wanted to let him make his own decision . If you want a Championship team , You damn well better BEG your star player to stay . ------------------ Moe's Classic Signatures "Will Work for Clutch 101 Book"
Maybe a sign and trade with Sacramento is how we'll finally get rid of Cato and Wiz's contracts, and finally end the whole Pippen fiasco. Not a bad way to end it... ------------------ the more I know, the more I know I don't know...
Let me add some more and move this to the top. Last night on FSW, I heard Stephen Something of the Philadelphia Enquirer talking about Webber. He said Webber, in his opinion, is the number one person to be moved before he trading deadline. Let me digress and say that Vancouver and Chicago are the other teams that are furiously trying to make moves as well Even though I would love to have Webber here, we are still a sub-500 team, and if winning is on his mind, then he may skip us. I was also listening to Jim Rome this morning and he said that players choose teams based on the following criteria - Money, living standards, touches, minutes, organisation, coaches and ring. We can offer Webber all, except a ring. It is Webber who gives us the ring Also, if we were to trade for Webber this season, it would have to be without Mo Taylor as I heard that players who signed a one-year contract cannot be traded. That means we will either have to give up KT along with some other scrubs. ------------------
Crisco, don't you think that Webber would probably blow out his knee? rockHEAD, what's a scrub? ------------------
Jim Rome. Ugh. Please scroll up this thread. Someone should have posted Webber's stated preferences (as opposed to all free agents' preferences). If not, I'll re-state them in brief: 1. Stay in the West 2. City bigger than SAC. 3. Teammates. 4. Fans. 5. $$$ (this is listed last, I'm sure, because all teams know that to get him, you have to pay him, so this will take care of itself). Some 1 year contract players can't be traded. For example, Sam Perkins. His last contract was for two years. This is a one year contract. He's eligible for Bird rights (not that he'll keep playing). I think that sort of contract would be untradeable. Otherwise, a player can be traded. Shandon could be traded now, but not next year if he signs a one-year Early Bird. (Somebody who knows something about this [i.e., AElliott], please step in here.) I do know that Mo can be traded. He won't be, though, because he wouldn't stay in Sacramento, Vancouver, or Chicago. I just hope Webber insists on coming to Houston (not NY or Phoenix) in a trade, or waits til summer, then signs on. Coming here in trade would mean at least a 3-team, maybe 4-team deal, and I wonder if Sacramento would prefer to ride this horse as far as it will take them or try to fetch something solid in return with a lot of time left on the contract (SAR?) ------------------
Actually tariq according to Real GM Mo is tradeable and here is an actual scenario that would work with the CBA: Houston gets: Webber Sacramento gets: Mo Taylor Walt Williams Carlos Rogers Matt Bullard http://www.realgm.com/tradechecker/checktrade.php?tradeid=97038 I don't think Sacramento would make this trade but it is possible for the Rox to package Mo for Webber. CK ------------------ There is nothing more thrilling than using the RealGM trade checker for the 1 millionth time and finally having it tell you trade accepted!!!
Actually Stephen A. Smith said on cnnsi that he thinks Webber stays till the summer and he would bet on either NY or Sacramento. I personally don't like the guy, and think he's a loud mouth, but whatever. There is no way Sacramento would trade him now, they think they have a chance to win it all. ------------------ "We don't have any plans. We just plan to win." Mack Brown
REAL GM IS THE DEVIL!!!! Stop the madness. ------------------ There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
So much of the media is either in or from New York or a slave to these East Coast "bastions of tradition." As Bruce Hornsby once said, "That's just the way it is. Some things will never change." Next year, when we have Webber and start winning championships again, the same journalists might still find a way to attach an asterisk to the victories. Hell with them. ------------------ [This message has been edited by ROXTXIA (edited February 06, 2001).]
