Harrington
Harrington's return to the Indiana Pacers via sign-and-trade with the Atlanta
Hawks, according to various NBA front-office sources, is widely seen as a
done deal.
Perhaps the strongest indication that a formal announcement is forthcoming
from Indianapolis is the fact that the Pacers' main competition for
Harrington is no longer courting the versatile forward.
The Golden State Warriors, sources said, have conceded defeat in the
Harrington chase, fully expecting the 26-year-old to join the Pacers in a
swap with Atlanta that would net Harrington a six-year contract worth a tad
less than $57 million.
It remains unclear who or what Atlanta would receive in the sign-and-trade
arrangement, but the deal can be completed with the Hawks taking back recent
or future draft picks -- or perhaps a moderately priced youngster, such as
center David Harrison -- as opposed to significant salary. That's because of
a $7.5 million trade exception Indiana created earlier this month by striking
a sign-and-trade deal with the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets involving
Peja Stojakovic … after Stojakovic already had committed to sign a
five-year, $60-plus million free-agent contract with the Hornets.
With a modest cash payment believed to be in the $250,000 range, Indiana
persuaded the Hornets to participate in a sign-and-trade swap for Stojakovic
instead of signing him outright. The Pacers signed Stojakovic to the terms he
and the Hornets negotiated and shipped the sharpshooter (plus cash) to New
Orleans/Oklahoma City for the rights to 1998 second-round draft pick Andy
Betts, who likely will never play for Indiana.
Without the $7.5 million trade exception resulting from that maneuver,
Indiana wouldn't be able to complete a sign-and-trade for Harrington unless
the Hawks were willing to take back contracts in the same monetary range as
Harrington's new first-year salary.
Harrington's apparent willingness to start that new contract in the $7.5
million range, meanwhile, is expected to return him to the team that drafted
the 6-9, 245-pounder in 1998 -- and has turned that trade exception into one
of the most valuable assets of this NBA offseason.
Harrington, sources said, initially told interested suitors he was expecting
a six-year deal worth at least $66 million. For the Pacers to pay that much,
Atlanta almost certainly would have to be willing to accept a package built
around Indiana center Jeff Foster. But Foster, by all indications, is not
part of the forthcoming trade.
Indy's unforeseen trade exception gets Harrington fairly close to his
financial target and the team he likes best. Better yet for the Pacers, their
new Ron Artest replacement is regarded as a topflight athlete capable of
playing small forward and power forward.
When the free-agent period commenced July 1 and the Hornets secured a verbal
commitment from Stojakovic within hours, it looked as though Indiana would
lose its original Artest successor without compensation.
The Pacers have been busy on other fronts, as well, according to sources, in
hopes of reducing future salary obligations wherever possible as they prepare
to absorb Harrington's big contract.
They first rescinded a qualifying offer to shooting guard Fred Jones,
suddenly making Jones an unrestricted free agent, and he quickly reached an
agreement to sign with Toronto Raptors.
Indiana also agreed this past weekend to trade point guard Anthony Johnson,
who has two seasons left on his contract worth a little more than $5 million,
for a package of three Dallas Mavericks that likely will be whittled to one.
Veteran point guard Darrell Armstrong is the only Mav expected to stick with
the Pacers after the deal goes through. Young forwards Josh Powell and Rawle
Marshall are prime candidates to be waived.
The Pacers also have shopped Foster (who earns $5.5 million next season) and
guard Sarunas Jasikevicius ($4 million) this summer and might proceed with
plans to move one or both to gain additional distance from the luxury-tax
threshold.
"Obviously, Indiana, I'm more comfortable there because I've been there, I've
been in the East," Harrington told ESPN.com earlier this month at the Vegas
Summer League, making it clear then that he expected to wind up with either
the Pacers or the Warriors.
"Going into free agency, obviously you think, 'I'm going to be at the bottom
of the screen [on ESPN's Bottom Line ticker] like Ben Wallace and the rest of
the guys.' But everyone's telling me to be patient, so that's what I'm trying
to do."
看似會用 7.5M TE + Harrison 交易
因為消息指出 Foster 不在這個交易的名單中
此外 Harrington 說他適合的價碼為六年六千六百萬 ... 嗯 ......
溜馬也在兜售 Foster 以及 Jesikevicius
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