We still have the CBA provided Amnesty that we can use, so perhaps it is time to just amnesty Bell instead of trying to trade him. Now that Raja has run his mouth to the media and it is all over NBA.com, I doubt there are many teams out there that would want a player like him. We could use the Amnesty clause from the new CBA to just get him off the books and kick him to the curb, and free up the cap space. That amnesty clause has very specific allowances to it, meaning it can only be used on a player who was in the contract being amnestied at the time the new CBA was signed. While we do have quite a few players in that situation, a large portion of them are close to the end of their contracts or are ones we would not amnesty anyways, is it worth using that one-and-only-one amnesty on Raja and his contract, or are we better to try to trade him off as an expiring contract this next season?
My gut feeling is to try to trade him right at the start of the player movement period (I think thats in july), and if no one has accepted a trade in the first short time, then you amnesty him to get him gone. CJ should also be gone, but his contract is totally run out, so there is no worry there. With Raja's public whining and crying about mistreatment (he is slightly selfish and possibly mentally challeneged me thinks, I mean look how he dresses most of the time...) he should be gone one way or another. He was hurting the team with his 1-3 ppg, 1reb, 0ast, 0stl performances. He is slow on defense, not like he used to be, and has not hit on his shot in a long time. At the end of last year he flat out said he did not play up to his own level. Bell only got worse this year, and now somehow cannot understand why he wasnt playing? Well regardless, trade or amnesty him, I am done with raja, period!
My gut feeling is to try to trade him right at the start of the player movement period (I think thats in july), and if no one has accepted a trade in the first short time, then you amnesty him to get him gone. CJ should also be gone, but his contract is totally run out, so there is no worry there. With Raja's public whining and crying about mistreatment (he is slightly selfish and possibly mentally challeneged me thinks, I mean look how he dresses most of the time...) he should be gone one way or another. He was hurting the team with his 1-3 ppg, 1reb, 0ast, 0stl performances. He is slow on defense, not like he used to be, and has not hit on his shot in a long time. At the end of last year he flat out said he did not play up to his own level. Bell only got worse this year, and now somehow cannot understand why he wasnt playing? Well regardless, trade or amnesty him, I am done with raja, period!
