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martin
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3/2/2007  12:21 PM
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/sports/basketball/02araton.html?ref=basketball

Hindsight, the Knicks and Nelson’s Foresight
by Harvey Araton

ANYONE HAVE SELECT? Please post full article. thanks.
Nelson was an outsider, an agent of change, who didn’t believe the Knicks had much of a future with Patrick Ewing, then 33 and angling for a rich contract extension, as their franchise player. Nelson was thinking out of the box, and big. He wanted the Knicks to chase Shaquille O’Neal, who was playing his last season in Orlando.

“I had coached Shaq in the world championships in ’94 and established a pretty good relationship with him,” Nelson said. “I knew he wanted to go elsewhere and so I brought this up a meeting with the Garden people. I said: ‘He would come to New York. It’s going to be Los Angeles or us. And if we give ’em Ewing, it would be the best deal Orlando could make.’

“Well, somehow that got back to Ewing and after that, I was toast.”
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3/2/2007  12:24 PM
wow, imagine the possibilities.
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3/2/2007  12:24 PM
LOL i kind of want to kill myself right now
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3/2/2007  12:25 PM
Wow thats crazy!
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3/2/2007  12:25 PM
Posted by TMS:

wow, imagine the possibilities.

and Don would have pushed the Knicks to look to the Euro leagues too.
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3/2/2007  12:26 PM
Posted by Elite:

LOL i kind of want to kill myself right now

me too.
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3/2/2007  12:28 PM
Posted by martin:
Posted by Elite:

LOL i kind of want to kill myself right now

me too.

Yep.
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3/2/2007  12:29 PM
Posted by martin:
Posted by TMS:

wow, imagine the possibilities.

and Don would have pushed the Knicks to look to the Euro leagues too.

thanks for twisting the knife... appreciate it.
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3/2/2007  12:30 PM
unbelivable....i woulda of done this without a doubt....i liked patrick...but shaq is just once in a while kinda players...

what a depressing start to my day,
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3/2/2007  12:37 PM
wow. well, yeah... wow.

I guess Shaq would've been a better use of cap room than Allan Houston and Chris Childs...
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3/2/2007  12:44 PM
Posted by crzymdups:

wow. well, yeah... wow.

I guess Shaq would've been a better use of cap room than Allan Houston and Chris Childs...

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3/2/2007  12:47 PM
DANG. Someone needs to post the full article! Please!
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3/2/2007  12:54 PM
There is no way Orlando would have traded Ewing for Shaq straight up.

Shaq was cramming it on Ewing from day one, and when Shaq was traded to the Lakers Ewing was even further downhill, not to mention Ewing was making 18 million....

oohah

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3/2/2007  1:01 PM
Posted by oohah:

There is no way Orlando would have traded Ewing for Shaq straight up.

Shaq was cramming it on Ewing from day one, and when Shaq was traded to the Lakers Ewing was even further downhill, not to mention Ewing was making 18 million....

oohah


Not str8 up but im sure we could have made the deal a little more enticing
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3/2/2007  1:03 PM
The salaries would never have matched.
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3/2/2007  1:10 PM
Layden says he was fired because he made the Lakers an Eisley for Kobe that LA had accepted but Eisley didn't like the rumor and got him fired for it.
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3/2/2007  1:12 PM
Posted by kam77:

The salaries would never have matched.


were there cap restrictions on deals back in those days?
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3/2/2007  1:14 PM
Posted by Bonn1997:

Layden says he was fired because he made the Lakers an Eisley for Kobe that LA had accepted but Eisley didn't like the rumor and got him fired for it.

Ewing was still a very good player at that time.
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3/2/2007  1:15 PM
Posted by TMS:
Posted by kam77:

The salaries would never have matched.


were there cap restrictions on deals back in those days?

No! None.
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