RE: Players who could be had cheap.

[John Lyell <Jlyell@concentric.net>]

Yes and that was one of their trades they would definitely like to forget

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From:	Warwick Janetzki [SMTP:giants@icplus.net.au]
Sent:	Saturday, November 15, 1997 8:40 PM
To:	Shailendra K. Mishra
Cc:	celtics@igtc.COM
Subject:	Re: Players who could be had cheap.

Shailendra K. Mishra wrote:
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> I see Walker as a better player than Sprewell because he does more. Don't just
> look at his shooting percentage and Sprewell isn't shaking the earth either in
> terms of shooting percentage. Walker is averaging almost 10 rebounds, 3.6
> assists, 2 steals and 1 block while averaging the same number of points.
> Sprewell is shooting 40%, avraging 2.9 rebounds, 4.9 assists and a fraction
> blocks. Now you tell me, who would you rather have?
> 
> Regarding what it would take to get Sprewell? Clearly under regular conditions
> it would take a lot but with the current problems between Sprewell & PJ <and I
> didn't complete the story, so here it is: following that incident PJ threw Spre
> out of practice and benched him>. The warriors desperately want to trade him and
> understand that in the light of the above nobody wants him at his kind of salary
> <all this is not the figment of my imagination, it has been on the Bay area air
> waves for a while now>.
> 
> In sacramento's case Rich may want out but he is still producing so they are in
> no hurry to trade him and certainly will not will not swap Richmond for
> Sprewell. Warriors would do that deal in a heart beat. They have a history of
> doing bad deals: remember Seikally for Felton Spencer, Hardaway & Gatling for
> Bimbo & Willis, so don't say that this deal can't fly. - Mishra

I dont think the Warriors would do this deal because Richmond was once a
Warrior and was traded for Billy Owens if you remember.

Warwick
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