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Originally posted by <b>hobojoe</b>!
Who would want Stackhouse and his contract?
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His contract is actually very fair in my opinion -- it's only $22 million over three years. That's just a bit over $7 million each season, which is pretty decent for a guy that will get you 20/4/4 fairly regularly. Unless a team is only interested in deals that expire sooner rather than later, I don't think his contract will be what holds him up too much.
On the other part of the question though, I have no clue who would actually want him. He certainly seems to have the reputation as a me-first player, and I hear him called injury-prone far too often (which is untrue -- discounting this season, he's only missed an average of <i>six</i> games per season). The general feeling people seem to have is that only once in his career has he really tried to help his team more than himself, that one year in Detroit he lost like 10 PPG off of his previous year's average.
I have a tough time picturing Stackhouse gone when we have Hughes is sitting there with a combination of a less negative stigma surrounding him and an expiring $5.5 million contract. He has been called selfish as well, but people generally think less so because he isn't as big a name as Stackhouse I guess. In actuality he probably is more so, but that's not what people think, and in trades it's what people think that's important.
As much as we talk about having too many perimeter players, it's very possible that that won't be so true by the time the offseason is done. Dixon will very likely be gone in the expansion draft in my opinion, Hughes or Stackhouse has a good shot at being dealt, and I think Jeffries gets at least as many minutes at PF as he does SF. The more I've thought about it, the less I'm interested in drafting a specific position or type of player and the more I'm interested in drafting just whoever management believes will be the best player.
If that's a PG, then when he's ready to be a full-time starter then we can slide Arenas to SG (which I believe he's fully capable of playing). If that's a SG, we can let Hughes go in the offseason or deal Stackhouse to make room. If that's a SF, that's great because we don't have anyone who's really captured that position as "MINE" so far. If that's a PF, like with Arenas we can bump Kwame over to center (also like Arenas, I believe he can play there just fine). If that's a C, well, as much as I like Haywood, he's sure not going to hold the guy back.
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