[sefant77]

Oh the good old Dampier trashing.

First of all, his contract wasnt so bad. It wasnt 7/73m, it was a 6/60m contract in guaranteed money and that was pretty reasonable and normal overpaying for bigs back then. Cuban also created with this contract the first non-guaranteed trade chip.

Also, in 2004 the Mavs were looking at prime Duncan and prime Shaq in the west and the Pistons around Ben Wallace in the east. They had to go big. Dampier was solid overall. Solid rebounder, really good in setting picks, just his hands were pretty bad. But he never disappeared