Should we let gerald wallace walk?

[drejeronfire]

I pretty much agree... The other thing with Wallace and his injuries is that the majority of them occurred when he was playing power forward.

From the looks of it Avery isn't too keen on going small, so I wouldn't expect to see Wallace return to playing heavy minutes at PF which bodes well for his long-term health...

[jeff1624]

$7,000,000
$7,525,000
$8,089,375
$8,696,078
$9,348,284

=

$40,658,737

Hmm, so we're talking $6.9 million starting or ending salary if this deal came to be true.

Yeah, that's a good deal either way.

And if the goal is to leave open 8 figure cap space in 2013, either a standard escalating or front loaded deal will work depending on the thoughts of if we're likely to have to stretch him in 2016.

I would have thought that front loading the contract would be in our best interest for the next offseason, but it appears that the reverse is true.