Top choices among amnesty candidates

[HMFFL]

Top choices among amnesty candidates

Marvin Williams. Even though he's only 25 years old, Williams' productivity has regressed over the past two seasons. He's been the odd man out in Atlanta, as he's seen Joe Johnson, Josh Smith and Jamal Crawford eat away his minutes. But with loads of potential coming out of college, he might just need a change of scenery (just hope for the opposite of the Jeff Green effect). http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/5-o ... se-targets

[evildallas]

Talk about recycling content. They have Chad Ford and Mark Stein go team by team and identify possible amnesty cuts then a week later they have their regional bloggers go through the initial list to rank which guys would be the most attractive to sign. Marvin got 1 vote for 4th most desirable and 1 vote for most desirable. It's weird but I would have hoped that as a minimum cost asset (after buyout) that he'd more popular. By comparison a guy who was a retirement candidate due to injury (Roy) and a historical misfit that was moved with an unprotected #1 pick (Davis) are seen as either more desirable or desirable to more. I've grown to despise Marvin Williams (for his priorities and efforts to get better), but even I would think that at minimum salary/new environment/new coach he'd be a definite player to approach for any team.

[MaceCase]

Peoples' opinions are influenced by past production. If they've seen a guy score, let's just say score 20ppg, before then they expect they can at the minimum duplicate that type of production from time to time even if they are old and beaten down better than some young player that hasn't displayed that ability before. Look no further than Dorell Wright as an example of this. The Heat cast him away in favor of keeping an older sharp shooter in James Jones and overpaying for Mike Miller then even his hometown LA teams preferred to overpay Matt Barnes and Ryan Gomes rather than take a flyer on him. It ended up that GS got him at a very favorable deal with him still having considerable upside while those other teams are looking to cut those other guys.

It happens constantly, vets are rated higher than younger guys.

[HMFFL]

Talk about recycling content. They have Chad Ford and Mark Stein go team by team and identify possible amnesty cuts then a week later they have their regional bloggers go through the initial list to rank which guys would be the most attractive to sign.

I had no idea. I rarely go to espn.com now and I saw this article on the General NBA board. I stopped going to ESPN because of all the Lebron James articles (praising), and nothing really seemed appealing to me.

[evildallas]

^^^ Wasn't a criticism of you, but of ESPN. I guess it is understandable due to the lockout. They've been guilty of tunnel vision on topics for some time, but now they've started to fill up pages with blogger analysis of their other columnists articles. I guess the theory is the columnists have access to actual inside info from league personnel, but this time it's just their opinions.

[Superiorblogman]

I don't like Marvin at all, but until the rule is clearer I would hold up on that.

[#1 pick]

He need a SF which Marvin is and the team still has to pay for him. He is likely to stay.

[evildallas]

BTW, when the sale of the Hawks got scuttled the chances of Amnesty in the short term got greatly reduced. If the clause is as I've read the real best candidate is Joe Johnson, but not until late in his deal. If nothing else the possibility that his play plummets to be an anchor on the team is enough reason to check that amnesty clause available in the owners back pocket. It's a lot of money to pay someone not pay, but I could see paying him to go away in the final year to save 20M in cap. Of course by then who knows who'll own the Hawks.