I do not understand why KG stays with the Wolves. Wolves signed KG to a $126 million contract, making $25.2 million this past season. KG is also up for a contract extention this year...can you imagine that? Garnett has one year left on his six-year, $126 million deal that triggered the current salary-cap agreement. Garnett's salary could start at 29.4 million. That is crazy money. Hopefully, he will ask less then that. Do you really think the Rockets want his salary on their hands?
How about a sign and trade next summer, if the TWolves can't re-sign him? Francis would no longer be a BYC player, and could be the cornerstone of a trade for Garnett. And Garnett might take less money than his current deal: http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/sports/basketball/nba/minnesota_timberwolves/5800943.htm Posted on Wed, May. 07, 2003 Keeping Garnett the goal BY ROBBI PICKERAL Pioneer Press Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor doesn't want to start next season without having Kevin Garnett signed to a contract extension. But if he doesn't, Taylor said, that doesn't mean he'll trade his star player. "The only way we would probably trade him is if Kevin said that he really thought that was the best thing for him, or something like that,'' Taylor said. "It would have to be built on something I couldn't even think of right now. We don't want to, and I don't think he would want to, but that would be the scenario, I suppose. "I don't think I would necessarily accept that just because he said that. But that's a possibility.'' Garnett has one season left on his record-setting six-year, $126 million deal and is eligible for an extension beginning at $29.4 million — although the sides last summer were negotiating a pay cut. If Garnett does not sign an extension, he would become an unrestricted free agent after next season and eligible to sign with any team. Garnett declined to comment on Tuesday. Taylor said he has no deadline for signing a deal, and that he will meet with Garnett in the coming weeks to talk about the state of the team and "things other than contract stuff.'' Contract negotiations, he said, would begin after that. If the deal doesn't get done this summer, talks could continue until he becomes a free agent in July 2004. "He's never said he wanted to go,'' Taylor said. "He's always said to me that 'I want my whole career to be here,' at the one place. That's why when people ask me if I'm positive (that a deal will get done), I feel good about that.'' The Wolves have had a bad experience with this sort of situation. Before the strike-shortened 1998-99 season, Taylor said, former point guard Stephon Marbury — who was to become a free agent the following summer — assured him he wanted to stay in Minnesota. Just before the trade deadline, Marbury changed his mind and forced a trade. "He said, 'I talked to my mom and my dad, and I want to stay here. We'll get this all worked out,' '' Taylor recalled. "And then he got a new agent, and in one week it all changed. So that's why I say that there are influences out there that just absolutely make no sense.'' If the Wolves wanted to trade Garnett, there likely would be several offers. Vice president Kevin McHale said he gets calls about Garnett every summer. Problem is, the Wolves likely can't recoup enough to make a trade worthwhile because a trade partner would have to unload salary comparable to Garnett's. For the $28 million Garnett would make next season, for example, the Wolves could in theory get Michael Finley, Dirk Nowitzki and a role player from Dallas. Or Chris Webber and Vlade Divac from Sacramento. But the reality, analysts have said, would be that the Wolves would get maybe one all-star and a bunch of overpaid role players — not an upgrade over Garnett — who finished second in the most valuable player voting this week. Garnett averaged career highs in points (23), rebounds (13.4), assists (6) minutes (40.5) this season. After the Game 6 loss to the Lakers, he called the Wolves "a team of uncertainty." Taylor and McHale are certain of one thing, however: They want Garnett to stay. "I don't think Glen has any intentions of trading Kevin Garnett,'' McHale said. "We want to get something done. We would rather build around Kevin than trade him and build him around someone else.''
You have got to include more than just Francis. They don't want to trade a top 5 guy for a guy that still don't know whether he wants to pass or shoot first.
Cuttino Mobley, James Posey, Eddie Griffin, Moochie Norris, Glen Rice, Maurice Taylor, Kelvin Cato, and our next 5 1st round draft picks for Kevin Garnett. Would they accept?
what would it really take to get KG? shaquille o'neil, kobe bryant, tracy macgrady, tim duncan.....yea were all out of those at the moment if we were ever going to get garnett, it wouldve been last summer. even then, i wouldve been shocked.
