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Olympiacos Is Interested in Marvin Williams

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Re: Olympiacos Is Interested in Marvin Williams 

Post#21 » by D21 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:37 am

evildallas wrote:If Marvin went to Greece, I think my approach would be to let Bibby walk as well and turn my attention to free agents like Sessions and Artest and hopefully still be able to reink Zaza and Flip. ...


But if we renounce Bibby, in order to use the cap room, we need to renounce Zaza (and Marvin and Childress, MLE,...), so even Zaza will have to be re-signed with cap room.

We would not have more tha 15M of cap room, and it's impossible to sign Sessions, Artest, Zaza and Flip with this amount. It's less impossible if you do sign-and-trades, and in this case, we can keep the rights of Marvin and Childress, and use the MLE too.
Meanwhile, I agree it would not be an esay work to find sign-and-trades with Bibby, Zaza and maybe Flip to get Artest, Sessions and/or other players.
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Re: Olympiacos Is Interested in Marvin Williams 

Post#22 » by KWSN-Men » Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:30 am

Here is an update.

It is reported in Greece by what is considered the Olympiacos main team paper that it is most likely that Bourousis will play with the Spurs next year. As long as the Spurs keep their offer to him when they are able to make the official offer it is likely he will play in San Antonio next year.

The Olympiacos owners are investing 75 million more euros into the soccer club next year and they are not happy with Bourousis' demands. In fact the paper is pessimistic that they can even keep Bourousis and the "next meeting" has not even occurred. They will have another meeting next week but it seems that basically at the moment Bourousis is going to San Antonio. The club is already supposedly talking to replacement free agents.
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Re: Olympiacos Is Interested in Marvin Williams 

Post#23 » by HMFFL » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:15 am

This void for Olympiacos will need to be filled and I fully expect the ownership to pursue some big men heavily. I won't be surprised if ZaZa's agent receives a phone call and some of the other 4/5's that are free agents. Olympiacos needs to pursue the non-married players like ZaZa and Chris Andersen. Selecting players that also don't have children would be a plus. Ron Artest does have a few children and one of them had cancer during the past (not sure of the status), so deciding on signing overseas would most likely be more difficult for him.
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Re: Olympiacos Is Interested in Marvin Williams 

Post#24 » by evildallas » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:25 am

D21 wrote:
evildallas wrote:If Marvin went to Greece, I think my approach would be to let Bibby walk as well and turn my attention to free agents like Sessions and Artest and hopefully still be able to reink Zaza and Flip. ...


But if we renounce Bibby, in order to use the cap room, we need to renounce Zaza (and Marvin and Childress, MLE,...), so even Zaza will have to be re-signed with cap room.

We would not have more tha 15M of cap room, and it's impossible to sign Sessions, Artest, Zaza and Flip with this amount. It's less impossible if you do sign-and-trades, and in this case, we can keep the rights of Marvin and Childress, and use the MLE too.
Meanwhile, I agree it would not be an esay work to find sign-and-trades with Bibby, Zaza and maybe Flip to get Artest, Sessions and/or other players.


If it gets to that point I would have no problem renouncing players to move forward with impact signings. Zaza would not necessarily have to be renounced if he could be signed before signing Artest. It all depends on the sizes of the deals. Like I said this is all daydreaming, I realize the financial trickiness that we're in because the way the cap rules work.
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