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If it takes bringing back some awful contracts to get Gil off this team then so be it.
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Originally Posted by Proshares
After two years of horrors, it looks like the Wizards' fortunes are finally starting to turn. Wall, the presumptive top pick, becomes the cornerstone of a Washington rebuilding project, and this time don't expect the Wizards to try cutting any corners.
Incoming new owner Ted Leonsis broke down the Washington Capitals and built them back up when he took over the city's NHL team, and he is widely expected to do the same with his basketball operation. In some ways, adding Wall makes that job easier, as Washington can rest assured it will still sell tickets this coming campaign.
However, the Wizards' plentiful cap space isn't likely to become a prominent factor in the summer free-agent frenzy, even with Wall coming aboard. There are simply too many holes up and down the roster and too strong a mandate from ownership to keep the powder dry for coming seasons.
Instead, Wall's arrival starts the clock on the eventual departure of Gilbert Arenas. While it's possible for the two to play together in the backcourt, especially if Arenas is willing to play off the ball as a spot-up shooter, it makes little sense for a rebuilding Wizards squad to cling to a declining 28-year-old who ties up $80 million over the next four seasons.
Amazingly, given his history and contract, there may still be a market for Agent Zero. The most likely scenario would have Washington take on an equally unpalatable contract with a shorter expiration (say, Eddy Curry from New York, or a combination of Erick Dampier and Matt Carroll from Dallas, or Marcus Banks and Jose Calderon from Toronto) in return for Arenas, who was reasonably effective on the court last season but needs to move on for the sake of both sides.
The net effect, however, is to make the rebuilding plan much more tolerable in D.C. The Wizards were looking at being a truly awful team next season; with Wall, they're more likely to just be run-of-the-mill terrible, and they'll at least have a defined centerpiece for the future.
Originally Posted by Im Not You
Well damn. I'll keep my sig until we figure out what # he'll choose. And if moving Young meant netting some more picks...I'm all for it. I wanna keep McGee though.
With the Wizards getting the #1 overall, I think the writing is on the wall for Foye. Foye had a lot of chances to prove himself this season, but never did anything to dispel doubts that people had about his game. It says a lot that a guy like Shaun Livingston who basically came off the scrapheap turned out to be our best PG in the 2nd half of the season. The 1 spot was Foye's to lose once Gil went down...and he lost it.Originally Posted by ryaneff23
Originally Posted by Im Not You
Well damn. I'll keep my sig until we figure out what # he'll choose. And if moving Young meant netting some more picks...I'm all for it. I wanna keep McGee though.
It will be interesting to see how we go about getting more picks, if that's what we really end up doing. I like Young, but he's so damn inconsistent. He will drop 25 one night, then 6 the next night. It's a good draft to have a lot of picks, though. It's crazy the makeover this team has gone through over the last year or so, and it's not over yet.
What do you guys think we're going to do with Miller and Foye?
Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
With the Wizards getting the #1 overall, I think the writing is on the wall for Foye. Foye had a lot of chances to prove himself this season, but never did anything to dispel doubts that people had about his game. It says a lot that a guy like Shaun Livingston who basically came off the scrapheap turned out to be our best PG in the 2nd half of the season. The 1 spot was Foye's to lose once Gil went down...and he lost it.Originally Posted by ryaneff23
Originally Posted by Im Not You
Well damn. I'll keep my sig until we figure out what # he'll choose. And if moving Young meant netting some more picks...I'm all for it. I wanna keep McGee though.
It will be interesting to see how we go about getting more picks, if that's what we really end up doing. I like Young, but he's so damn inconsistent. He will drop 25 one night, then 6 the next night. It's a good draft to have a lot of picks, though. It's crazy the makeover this team has gone through over the last year or so, and it's not over yet.
What do you guys think we're going to do with Miller and Foye?
Miller.....when healthy, he's effective. Dude can stretch the floor with his shooting and is very versatile. I'd like to see him stick around, but I have a feeling that this season really wore on him and he'd like to play for a winner. I think Miller would be a good fit on a team like Chicago.
Originally Posted by Deuce King
The Wizards are a dead last organization with no driver behind the wheel, and Stern was VERY good friends with Polin, Polin's wife up there on the podium representing her late husband, all signs leads to Stern doing a great service for DC last night.
To whet the palate, think Baltimore native Carmelo Anthony next summer. (Kevin Durant is staying in Oklahoma City. Trust my Post colleague Michael Lee: Durant is basically Duncan in San Antonio, happy as pie in small-market heaven. He can't do wrong and his family loves the town.)
Now, for the money game. If the Wizards renounce all their free agents, they would have six players under contract and three draft picks to be paid. They probably would be about $20 million under the salary cap. Given that a max contract comes out to about $16 million a year, they could go after a big fish now.
But that's probably not how their money will be spent. Look for high-salaried, one-year guys to essentially use Wall and the Wizards to build their free agent value. Look for the Wizards to use those players' contracts to get way under the cap next summer and compete for 'Melo. Look for Flip Saunders to keep using his two-guard front to suit the talent of Wall and Arenas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...5/19/AR2010051902121.html?sid=ST2010051900009
Hmmm....Melo in a Wizards uni after next season...interesting.
some more stuff...
In the first 12 hours after the lottery, the Wizards sold nearly 400 season-ticket packages, according to a team spokesman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/19/AR2010051904696.html
The Wizards have enough salary-cap space to offer James a maximum contract, a provision that was made possible when the Wizards traded Antawn Jamison to the Cavs last winter. But James, who has a harsh relationship with the Washington franchise, isn't believed to have Washington on his short list.
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2010/05/new_jersey_nets_worth_to_lebro.html
I don't think it's too likely that Lebron comes to DC...but what the article failed to mention is that Lebron does have a good relationship with Ted Leonsis. On top of it all, no one knows what Lebron's plans are...so until July 1, you can't really rule out any teams that have a significant amount of cap space in the #6 sweepstakes.
John Wall's wingspan (6-9 1/4) is larger than Evan Turner's (6-. Might not sound like much - except Wall is 6-4 & Turner is 6-7.
According to one source with intimate knowledge of the team's plans, the Wizards front office, headed up by President Ernie Grunfeld, doesn't want Arenas - released earlier this month from a Washington DC halfway house after serving 30 days for a felony gun conviction - anywhere near Wall, whom the team has already decided it will select with the top pick in the June draft. After Arenas was convicted Grunfeld traded away four starters.
One source tagged Arenas as "the reason why a core of players that reached the playoffs" on multiple occasions had to be broken up, "and it was entirely due to what he did. He poisoned the team. He is a cancer."
The Wizards' options include trying to trade Arenas, who has four years and more than $80 million in salary remaining on his contract. But that is not the only option. According to a source the team will "definitely consider buying out" Arenas' contract. This flies in the face of the public position the Wizards have taken with Arenas.
http://www.thegrio.com/sports/will-the-washington-wizards-axe-arenas.php
[h3]Arenas still in Wizards plans?[/h3]
MSNBC on Thursday published a story citing two highly placed sources who said the Wizards are committed to getting rid of embattled guard Arenas because they don't want him negatively affecting Wall, who is projected to be the No. 1 pick. The story went on to say that the Wizards would consider a buyout of Arenas' contract if they could not trade him.
Two sources here strongly denied the story and questioned its veracity, citing the money that Ted Leonsis will pay to buy the remainder of the team from Abe Pollin as a deterrent to paying additional money to buy out Arenas' contract, which has $80 million left on it.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/frank_hughes/05/21/draft.process/index.html?eref=sihp