mattyBoi wrote:Does anyone else compare Maggette to Ariza...Being young talent and just letting them go for basically nothing.
We seem to do that often...Ben wallace
The only reason they did that was to get enough cap room to sign Tim Duncan and Grant Hill. And the agents for the big-name players were telling them they needed a second big-name player to get one. If they hadn't gotten Derek Strong's contract off their books, they wouldn't have had enough cap room to do that, and the Magic had to give other teams incentive to take him because Strong had had some very serious health issues. Don't you remember all this? Unfortunately, when you dump salaries to get below the salary cap, it can be very costly as it was with the Magic losing Corey.
And I didn't see the Ariza trade as nothing. Evans at least contributes to the team. The Magic got nothing back that ended up helping them in the Maggette/Strong trade.
Do some of you know Maggette or something? Because I still have never once seen him quoted anywhere as saying he would be interested in coming back to Orlando. Even this article doesn't say that. It just says that he smiled. That could mean anything. The writer even writes like he is speculating that they might be able to get him for the MLE. You just don't see many young guys like him who agree to play for less than they got paid the previous year. That usually only happens to old guys. If they want to leave their current teams, they usually have their agents find sign-and-trades so they can continue to get paid and go to a better situation, too.
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