I used the wrong word when I said “knew”. I should have said “thought”. Then he had a bounce back year for Dallas. So he got paid. Then everyone figured out they were right the first time. lol

We did get picks as part of it and more importantly dumped the radioactive Felton contract that no one wanted at that time.

That’s been one of the problems. We’ve had some bad contracts. In order to move them we’ve accepted less than fair value on the decent assets. We did that to move Felton with Chandler, JR Smith with Shumpert and then under new management with KP to move Hardaway and to lesser extent Lee who was shorter.

In hindsight, Kemba was a bad gamble. If you research it, there were articles in the Boston papers at the time where medical experts were saying he was “done” and would not recover.

The Nerlens contract was similar to Chandler in that he’s had injury issues in the past and was hurt all last year. It’s wasn’t that the contract was bad or that he isn’t a good player. It’s that no one wanted a hurt player.

In both those cases it cost us value to move them, but I think only the Kemba deal was a mistake.

Just to be fair on this one, Chandler had a bit of reputation for injuries at that point in his career and was coming off an injury plagued sub par year at age 31 for NY. His market was not anywhere near what it was earlier. Dallas squeezed one more productive year out of him, but everyone knew he was close to done.

He signed a four-year/$52 million contract after his year in Dallas, so I don’t believe everyone knew that he was close to done. He was still a very valuable trade asset for a team willing to rebuild.

feron looks a little lean for the 4…he seemed to be mostly used in the backcourt during the summer…

I remember him handling the ball okay…mostly I liked his size and energy…

no doubt cam has a lot more skill and potential…I’m just doubtful he gets there…

I’d rather have someone like feron in practice if he won’t be playing much anyway…

I’ll take a look tomorrow at his stats to see if I can justify…

complicated feelings in the homeless thing…it ain’t just altruism that makes me wanna see the issue lessened (much more an issue for them than me, but still)…

yeah, that market thing don’t sound like no good situation…if I owned some shit close by I’d be really pissed…

glad you’re okay, but, sounds like y’all need some kind of building defense system…

fuck, hopefully they go to infest some other area…

I’m pretty compassionate until something gets in my way, or runs me down, then not so much…

just stay safe, hard to win against folks whom have little to lose…

I feel like it’s a tell.