StR Community Free Agent Board, Pick 14

to express my desire that the team not pick up anyone at this time due to team development and CBA positioning. I think the team would do well to look for free agents next year (when they are cheaper) or event 2-3 years out (when the younguns are ready to be a playoff team for a while)

Netherlands upsets Brazil in the World Cup.

talent has to win sometime. even if its pick #14. Plus if we went with Childress we would have to give him a huge contract judging by the contracts already given out.

Looking at the contracts that were signed yesterday, no wonder NBA owners are losing money. Spending 20-30 million on Darko, Drew Gooden, and Channing Fyre is idiotic.

that desperate to fill a specific need? I just don’t get it.

kevinwildes: Allan Houston has sold Amar’e on the Knicks’ willingness to overpay one dimensional players with bad knees.

All media in Greece have him staying until 2011.

Salmons (who is two years older than Boozer) got 5yrs $39M. Anybody still think they’d prefer him to Carlos?

My two cents, presented as part of a piece that I did 12/31/08 –

Carlos Boozer is an NBA all-star, a career double-double man (21/11 over the past two plus seasons). He is a low post beast that finishes at the rim with either hand, and he can hit the mid-range jumper. He runs the pick and roll with the best of them, and he is currently 27 years old. He has already told the Jazz that he is opting out of the final year of his contract.

Oh yes, that. Carlos Boozer has the reputation of being a "mercenary," a gun for hire, a player with no loyalty. This was born out of his nasty exodus from Cleveland. And there is no way to candy coat this – when an agent thinks that you’re too sleazy to work with, well, that’s sayin’ something. Add to that the announcement to opt out and the fact that he has missed significant time to injury in three of his seven seasons, and you have all of the ammunition that you need to call this guy a selfish pr*ck.

Except that his teammates have never really castigated him for any of this. It is the nature of the beast of the modern day athlete. They all play in glass arena’s and none of them will throw stones, as they are all prepared to take a similar path if the opportunity presents itself. Boozer played out the required length of his first contract, as smarmy as the termination of that contract may have been. And now he has nearly played out the second contract, and he will be available to the highest bidder.

It’s almost two years later and the stats have changed a little, but the crux still holds true. Someone is going to pay this man, and he is very, very likely to deliver on what he is paid.