[外電] 七六人正積極運作 Brand 離開可怕的西岸

[willyt (T-Yak [Farewell~])]

重點節錄

七六人目前扣掉 Iguodala 跟 Louis Williams 至少有 11M 的薪資空間
如果我們能把 Carney 跟 Booth 搓掉，換成現金 and TE
我們也許能開出 14M 起薪的合約給 Brand

另外據氏家族表示，如果 Brand 決心離開 LA, 那費城比奧客蘭還吸引他
因為我們重建已經幾乎完成了，上一季大家共通拼鬥的成果，
果然是自由市場最佳的招牌～



Monday, July 7, 2008
Sixers trying to get in position to lure Brand from West Coast
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
http://tinyurl.com/6a28v9

It's starting to look as though the biggest threat to the Los Angeles
Clippers re-signing franchise forward Elton Brand can be found much further
east than Oakland.

NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Monday night that the Philadelphia
76ers are again "actively involved" in the Brand hunt after initially fearing
that they couldn't compete financially with the Clippers and Golden State
Warriors.

Although the leaguewide consensus remains that Brand will return to Hollywood
to form a new partnership with Clipper-to-be Baron Davis, sources said the
Sixers are growing increasingly confident in their ability to create
additional salary-cap space by finding a new home via trade for swingman
Rodney Carney and then make a sufficiently rich offer to Brand.

Dealing away Carney -- with Memphis and Minnesota quickly emerging as
possible destinations -- would shed nearly $1.7 million from the Sixers'
payroll next season as long as the trade doesn't require new GM Ed Stefanski
to take any salary back.

The Sixers are already expecting to have at least $11 million in salary-cap
space to spend when the league announces next season's cap figure to all 30
teams Tuesday night. If the cap ceiling for the 2008-09 season comes in
higher than the widely projected estimate of $58-to-59 million -- and if the
Sixers can indeed move Carney and/or center Calvin Booth -- Philadelphia
could have the flexibility to start a five-year offer to Brand at a
first-year salary in the $14 million range.

Sources said that the Sixers remain highly interested in Atlanta Hawks
restricted free agent Josh Smith, but it appears that Philly will give itself
every chance to emerge as the unlikely winner of the Brand sweepstakes before
deciding whether to sign Smith to an offer sheet that the Hawks would have
seven days to match.

If Philadelphia can indeed manufacture a first-year salary of at least $14
million, that would be in the same ballpark as the Clippers, who must
preserve enough cap space in retaining Brand to formally sign Davis to the
five-year, $65 million deal which the former Golden State point guard
verbally agreed to last week.

The Warriors can still outbid L.A. and Philadelphia for Brand thanks to
Davis' defection. If next season's salary cap is announced at $59 million or
thereabouts, as expected, Golden State should have the wherewithal to offer
Brand a five-year deal worth just over $95 million.

Sources close to the process told ESPN.com on Monday that the Warriors
continue to have dialogue with the Brand camp and have not abandoned hope of
luring the 29-year-old to Northern California.

Yet separate sources suggested Monday that Brand -- if he's ultimately drawn
away from his Face of the Franchise status with the Clippers -- would be more
inclined to jump to Philadelphia than Golden State, given the Sixers'
residence in a conference with far fewer contenders than the West and the
opportunity to join a young Philly nucleus (Andre Miller, Andre Iguodala and
the considerable wingspan of center Samuel Dalembert) that won many admirers
as last season progressed.


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推 badgrace:是14M吧XDD
推 Loj:把 Booth 和 Carney 和在一起搓一搓變出張 Ace
→ seekforever:哪個天才簽Booth還要給到第二年 player option....orz
推 richard1003:阿不就是老王.....
※ 編輯: willyt          來自: 122.123.38.99        (07/08 15:56)
→ willyt:Ed Stefanski 使用了魔法卡"回家的誘惑"，
→ willyt:犧牲了 Rodney Carney 跟 Calvin Booth 兩張戰鬥怪獸
→ willyt:召喚出 Elton Brand  (逃)
推 kenny781558:Brand快來阿 費城的大門正等帶著你！！！！
→ royalsage:Carney很可愛耶..........
推 ai616:carney 進步不少耶  它的三分也還不錯  賣造啦~
推 freijaking:Carney走了板凳可用的少了 qq
→ hanway:Carney...在Wade頭上爆扣的男人，掰啦