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Rasheed Won't Come for MLE
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Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
2/9/2004  4:36 PM
I wish he would but the man only cares about money and someone will offer im more. he is holding out for a max contract, which he thinks he deserves. I read a quote by him that said something like this: "I don't care where i end up. I dont five a ----about stuff like that. Someone will cut the check. It doesn't matter if it is Team A, Team B, or Team C, some one will cut the check."
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2/9/2004  4:43 PM
have to wait and see
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2/9/2004  4:48 PM
I will give some thought to that once the trade deadline has passed. I'd like to see what transactions are made first.
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2/9/2004  5:19 PM
ha ha he he , keep waiting you will look so silly making excuses.
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2/9/2004  8:26 PM
I will say it - he isnt coming to NY for the MLE. No way, no how. If he does I will eat my hat.
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2/9/2004  8:35 PM
Well grab your knife and fork because you're gonna be eating some hat soon!

LOL Just kidding. But seriously, I'm also not sure what's gonna happen. We just gotta stay glued to the tube and the web to find out. That's all I can say....

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[Edited by - keyindabox on 02/09/2004 20:38:12]
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2/9/2004  8:39 PM
I would love to eat my hat if this came true - I want Sheed here in NY, but I just think he is expensive and wont settle for the MLE. We shall see though, if he is all about basketball and winning then he will take a pay cut to play for a good team.
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2/10/2004  12:31 AM
We'll see how bad he wants to play here if, after having been traded to the Hawks, he'll come to NY in the offseason for the MLE.

Or Atlanta could trade him before July 1st...

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2/10/2004  2:05 AM
Portland's play by play man was just on WFAN and said the Portland GM thinks Sheed is interested in taking the MLE to play for the Knicks. My guess is he is closer to the situation than any of us.
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2/10/2004  5:23 AM
Well think about it logically. The major players in the free agent market will be the Clips and the Nugs, and well the Hawks.

Clips have Brand and want to sign Kobe, no way they throw big money at Sheed, it is pretty clear they are not even gonna bother with him.

Nugs have Nene and Camby, I dout they will make a run at a Wallae type player with the type of team they have there, simply does not make sense to grow a lot of money at Sheed when you are developing your own young PF and can go after a permier SG in Kobe or Richardson, a position that actually needs an upgrade (props to Lenard, he is tearing it up for my fantasy team, but I still don't think he can be a starter longterm).

Hawks, well they are the Hawks. No way Sheed signs with them, and no way they want to sign him. Not the move the new management will want to make as a start to rebulding the fan base.

What is left after that? Utah? No way the Jazz get a guy like Wallace, Sloan will rather quit then accept a guy like that into his system. And they don't have that much cap. Some teams who can offer a midrange deal, not that much over the exception.

If you are in Wallace's place, what do you do? You are 30, you've got a lot to prove to the world, you already have lots of money, why not NY? Endorsments will be good in the city, a chance to win the title with Steph and the rest of the crew, and if he plays well, an extension at the end of the season for the big bucks. It is really not that farfeched for Wallace to sign with us in the summer. Also playing for a loosing team in Atltanta will teach him a good lesson, after half a season there I dout he will even think about signing for a bad team again lol.
A glimmer of hope maybe?!?
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2/10/2004  10:04 AM
He may still wind up coming to N.Y.in the summer and settle for the minimum and make it up on indorsements...MADISON AVENUE baby.
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2/10/2004  10:41 AM
if rasheed wallace is the guy isiah wants--and it sems that way, he's going to be a big time player for him. really this trade was just about the only way to get him--not for this year but next. the mle is 6 y 32mm thats not chump change but what team is going to go much higher than that for weed? remember you are talking BIG time $$$$$$ and there is only 4 -5 clubs that have the rsources to go over the mle--do they spend it on sheed? personally i wouldnt

and even if some club comes up with something like 3 years 21mm i would personally take the extra years and $$$$

i think it is now highly likely that raweed comes for the MLE
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Rasheed Won't Come for MLE

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