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Any chance we sign Wes and trade AK?

d@!!0n0rcutt said:
It's not the first time someone has been bought out from a giant contract like AK's ie. Ilgaukas, Ben Wallace, and etc...you act like it's never happened
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And you're acting like it's completely up to the team whether or not their own contract gets bought out. The player has to agree to it! There's no way AK is going to take a buyout of $6M or so instead of keeping the whole $17.8M. That's not how it works. If a player is going to allow his contract to be bought out, at the very least he's going to demand something CLOSE to what he was getting anyway.
 
TheStormofWar said:
If AK is bought out, it must be a mutual decision. But it's not exactly a rare occurrence either.
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I agree it's not really rare, but what is/would be rare is for a player in AK's position to do it....... extremely rare......... el chupacabra rare. It simply wouldn't happen.
 
Ok and by the time the T'Wolves bought AK out the deal would of been better with Dallas, unless they really want Tomic.
 
When Ben Wallace was bought out, he was paid $10 million - the original deal would have paid him $14 million. Then he signed with Detroit (I think he got $2 million after kickers and bonuses), so with the buyout and the new deal he made most of what he was going to make with Phoenix already. That isn't possible for Kirilenko. If MIN buys him out for $6M, he wouldn't get anywhere near the $12M he'd be losing to take the buyout.
 
We shouldn't give up Tomic so easily...He could end up being one of the better centers in the league in a few years...There's not that many talented 7 footers in the league right now.
 
I'm betting since New Jersey struck out in free agency, they might be willing to take on AK's contract for a year...They are in need of size and a 4. AK would be perfect for them...We might be able to bring back Terrence Williams or Courtney Lee in the deal as well.
 
I'd take either of those 2 in a heartbeat for aK. both are decent players and would relieve salary.

Any chance we use any of our other exceptions?
 
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