[外電] Sunday NBA column
NBA trade deadline comes, goes with with little action. Among winners: Dwight
Howard, Kevin Garnett
Published February 26, 2006
What the NBA trading deadline lacked in sizzle it made up for with winners and
losers:
Winners
New York tabloids: The latest spin to the addition of Steve Francis to an
already crowded backcourt is it positions the Knicks to make an offseason move
for ... Kevin Garnett. In an effort to keep his job, figure on Isiah Thomas
surreptitiously feeding that rumor beast.
Dwight Howard: With the trade of Francis, the future of the Magic securely has
been placed in the hands of the second-year power forward. Although more than a
year away from such a negotiation, Howard essentially already is assured a
maximum extension.
Luxury-tax recipients: With the Knicks' $123 million payroll more than $60
million above the luxury-tax threshold, that's $60 million New York will have
to pay to the league. That assures each non-taxpayer, such as the Heat,at least
a $2 million offseason payment. Kind of nice when a team pays you to beat them.
Allen Iverson/Paul Pierce/Garnett: With so few players spending their careers
in a single city, the respect shown to the trio at the deadline is admirable.
If a move is made, a summer exit is a much more dignified departure.
The offseason trade market: A variety of arcane salary-cap rules prevented many
players from being dealt, including Jason Richardson and Troy Murphy, Warriors
veterans who will lose the dreaded base-year-compensation tag on July 1. Often
what can't get done in February can in July.
Orlando Magic media relations: The Magic wanted nothing more from former Magic
locker room lawyer Penny Hardaway than salary-cap flexibility in the Francis
trade with New York. To its credit, Orlando's PR staff made that immediately
clear when its trade release read the team had acquired, "the expiring contract
of guard Anfernee Hardaway." Not Hardaway himself, mind you, just a soon-to-be-
shredded document.
Losers
Damon Jones: An ill-fit from the moment he signed his four-year, $16 million
offseason deal with the Cavaliers, the former Heat guard was pushed further
down the rotation with Cleveland's acquisition of Ronald Murray. Heck, the
Cavaliers even made deadline pushes for Orlando's Keyon Dooling, Jones' Heat
backup last season, and Derek Anderson.
Grant Hill: Unless he can engineer a buyout in the offseason or some time next
season, the Magic swingman faces the prospect of finishing his career lost in
the Magic's youth movement, with the ignominious designation of never having
won a playoff series.
Eric Williams, J.R. Smith, Jim Jackson: ... and all the others who had hoped to
be dealt by the deadline. With Smith, it has reached the point where he and
Hornets coach Byron Scott no longer are speaking.
Restricted free agency: Vladimir Radmanovic, Reggie Evans and Murray all turned
down deals as restricted free agents last summer from the Sonics in hopes of
greater 2006 riches as unrestricted free agents. Instead, each had to forfeit
Bird Rights in order to allow for deadline deals. That means none can get more
than the $5 million mid-level exception from their new teams this summer.
P.J. Brown: With Chris Andersen suspended, Jackson Vroman sidelined, the trade
for Steven Hunter rescinded, and nothing more gained at the deadline than the
dead weight of Marc Jackson, the 36-year-old former Heat forward faces the
continued prospect of big minutes out of position at center in the midst of the
Hornets' unlikely playoff push.
Walt Frazier, Dick Barnett, Earl Monroe: Could there be any more of an insult
than New York coach Larry Brown comparing the legendary Knicks backcourt to the
current morass of Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford and Francis?
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