- Detroit agrees to deals with Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva for 5 years/55 million and 5 years/35 million respectively....Gordon first....I think this is #1) Too much money for a one-dimensional player who is position-less and #2) I don't know where he plays if they bring Rip back....There has been a long-standing rumor that Rip Hamilton and Michael Curry didn't get along...they just fired Curry, assumedly to appease Hamilton, and then they gave $11 million to a combo-shooting guard type...Don't really know the direction....as far as Charlie V...I think that's pretty good value...$7 million is about what I see him getting...he's a talented combo forward who can defend and was fairly huge in the 2nd half last year for Milwaukee with both Redd and Bogut out...
- The Clips unload Zach Randolph to Memphis for Quentin Richardson....This is huge in 2 senses....#1) It clears the way for Blake Griffin to start right away at the 4....That can't be undersold b/c it was looking like Griffin would be stuck in a logjam up-front...and #2) Randolph was on the books for 2 more years at a total of 33.3 million dollars....and Richardson is only making around $9 million for one year...that's a coup for the Clippers in what is a blind salary dump, but it gets them out of that horrendous mistake of getting Randolph in the first place, and enables them to have 2010 FA money (in an attractive market, even if it IS the Clippers)
More later..
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