http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0325/1529407.html Former Miami Heat guard and ESPN basketball analyst Tim Hardaway is expected to sign with the Indiana Pacers within the next few days, according to his agent Henry Thomas. Hardaway Contract details were not immediately known, but Hardaway will join the team as a player. Pacers team president Donnie Walsh had told the Indianapolis Star recently that he wanted to wait before making the move. "I want our team to settle in," Walsh told the newspaper. "I just don't think it's time to do anything with our team. We don't even have all of our own players back. We're going through so many difficulties, this would be the wrong time to do something like that." Indiana is fourth in the Eastern Conference with a 41-29 record. The Pacers trail Detroit by 3½ games for the top spot in the East. Hardaway had averaged 17.9 points and 8.3 assists for his career.
I knew there was a Satan cuz he put Tim on ESPN in the first place but at least I know now there is a God for taking him off. Best news i have heard all day. Now for Greg Antony and Legler.
Greg Anthony isn't bad but Tim Legler gets on my nerves! Especially with his stuborness how he thinks Phoenix will get into the playoffs.
My thoughts exactly! What the HELL was ESPN thinking? And when they paired Hardaway with Boo-Ya Stewy Scott together....good lord! Greg Anthony has been excellent on NBA Shootaround. I am glad they brought him on board and exiled Tim to Wednesday nights. Even better that he gets off that show. Hardaway just does not have a broadcast voice or the language skills to be on TV. He can't analyze anything!
Is he qualified to be on the playoff roster if he signs this late in the season? I wonder, I guess so since that they would be signing him for nothing if he cant.
Dave, just what I was thinking. I don't know what the deadline is but it must have passed by now. But, it could be that Indiana wants to sign him for their playoff positioning. They are fighting with the 76ers for 3rd place. But Walsh saying he wants to wait a bit before signing him for the team to settle in is weird. There are only a dozen games left. If they do wait, they won't sign him at all.
I think the deadline might have already passed, but what sense would that make for signing Timmy. I remember reading an artical that at the time reported the rumor of Ty Hill signing with the sixers once he cleared waivers and as I recall the deadline was very close to the day he signed with the Sixers.
Hes returning to catch Glen Rice in 3 pointer made, but at the pace Glen is shooting, that would be hard to do.
Why dont the rockets sign him? he is ten times better than moochie and he can show Francis a thing or two about play making
No. In my opinion he's washed up. That's why he went to ESPN, and then he was too washed up for ESPN!!! He is not better than Moochie, he can not show Francis anything. He is at this point unproven. He will never get back to his old self, that's why the Nuggets waived him last year, THE NUGGETS!!! Steve has his own style; he doesn't need an old guy to come and try to show him how not to play when you're old. Even if he was considered, his minimum contract is whatever the veteran's minimum for the remainder of the season is. It's $1 mill for one full season, as far as I understand.
(ring ring) Pacers: "Hello?" ESPN: "This is Trey Wingo of ESPN sports calling -- any truth to the rumor that Tim Hardaway and Tim Legler and Sean Elliot and Tom Tolbert and Fred Carter are about to sign with the Pacers? Sounds like a perfect fit..." Pacers: "You tried this last week. No." ESPN: "Pleeeeeeease sign him and Legler and..." Pacers: "We'll take Hardaway if you leave us alone." EPSN: "Legler too?" Pacers: "Hardaway or nothing, take it or leave it." ESPN: "Okay. Thanks." (ring ring) Spurs: "Hello?" ESPN: "Any truth to the rumor that Sean Elliot is making a comeb..." (click)
Well my question has been answered. He can play in the playoffs because he's an FA pickup, not a waived player.
Pacers score 140 points. Tim has 14 pts and 7 assists in first game back...not bad for a "broken" player.
