Smitty731 wrote:BullyKing wrote:Smitty731 wrote:
It wasn't. I have on very good sources that they offered him 2 years at no more than $6 million per year. When he balked, they offered him 1 year at the equivalent to the Taxpayer MLE. Crawford was all but gone to Philadelphia before the Clippers came back to him with the deal he signed.
Smitty, did you hear anything on the length of the deal that Philly offered? I'm trying to get a sense of how much of Colangelo's success this offseason was due to failed attempts at awful moves. Locking up Crawford on a 3 year deal would have been that.
1 year of $20+ was the last credible report. The idea from Philadelphia was to pay him a ton, give them a solid guard for a year and evaluate at the end of the season if he would be a part of the future there.
Agreed. And Philly has to pay somebody money anyhow. Having Crawford around to mentor young guys for a season isn't the worst thing in the World. The guy is generally regarded as a good dude around the league.
Plus Philly is woeful in the guard scoring department, so Crawford would have helped them score.
