03-04-2007, 11:23 AM
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Kwisatz Haderach
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Coatesville, PA
Age: 25
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Re: Henderson to Jazz
Here's Billy King on the situation..
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“I don’t understand the Alan Henderson trade. Why would you want the right to swap second round picks with Utah when their pick will be behind the 76ers? With the current roster, and three first round picks, it seems unlikely that a second round pick next year would make the 15-man roster anyway.”
-Allen Gorski
Billy King
“Well, Allen, mainly that was a managing the cap situation. There was a miscalculation on the tax number when we bought Chris Webber out, so we had to get under the tax. In doing so, Utah took Alan in and we got somebody to pay his salary, which got us under the tax. Swapping the picks is our right to swap, because anytime you make a trade, Utah had to give us something back. To do that, Utah gave us the right to swap picks, even though we’re not going to swap with them. Also, we owed them a pick in 2008, so we reduced the protection on that pick in the second round. So it was more getting under the tax and clearing up some miscalculation, cleaning it up a little bit. I do agree that next year the second round pick may not be somebody that we need to add to the roster with the three first round picks, but that could be a situation where we draft a guy over seas and leave him over seas, or it could be a situation where we could use it to make a trade. But I think any time you have those picks, you want them for an asset value in order to be able to maneuver.”
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