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Lvubun1 · 11-22-2003, 06:51 AM

I think we all have to realize the trade value of Jamison, their are probably some teams who wouldn't take Jamison for free. If Jamison was a free agent how many teams would offer him 6 years at the max? Probably none, the teams that are willing to take on 6 years at 75 million are a small handfull. I don't think Jamison has done anything to improve his trade value since being given away by the Warriors. Its hard to imagine being able to parlay some real value from a guy who just 3 months ago was packaged with some other decent players for a 32 year old PG and some IR guys.

If Jamison was able to fetch a Vince Carter, T-Mac or some other great player like I always see in these fantasy trade ideas, why didn't the Warrior's just cut out the middle man(the Mavs) and make a Jamison package with Toronto for Carter or Orlando for Mcgrady or with another team for another impact player? Its kinda like your in a auction with 31 people and you buy a lamp for $10, you can't go back to that same auction the next day with those same 31 people and try to sell that same lamp for $100. If somebody wanted the lamp they would have bid more then $10 for it back when it was up for sale, just because you have now that doesn't mean its value has increased. Picture the people as NBA teams, the lamp as Jamison and the money as trade value, with the $10 being the package the Mavs gave to the W's, and the $100 being what we are expecting back if the Mavs trade Jamison. So when Jamison/Lamp were up for bidding, nobody but the Mavs offered more then chump change for him, now we can't expect for the same NBA teams who didn't offer more then $10, (NVE and scrubs) to all of a sudden do a 180 and give the Mavs alot more then what we paid for. Now on the bright side, the guy who purchased the Lamp(Cuban) is one hell of a sales person, he might be able to fix it, clean it up and make it sound attractive and sell it for more, but it remains to be seen.

Now did everybody follow that [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] You can do the exact same thing with Fortson just subsitute "Lamp" with "Baked Potato" "Teletubby" or "Bucket of fat"

11-22-2003, 06:51 AM	#1
Lvubun1 Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 794	Antawn Jamison's Trade Value Or Lack Of I think we all have to realize the trade value of Jamison, their are probably some teams who wouldn't take Jamison for free. If Jamison was a free agent how many teams would offer him 6 years at the max? Probably none, the teams that are willing to take on 6 years at 75 million are a small handfull. I don't think Jamison has done anything to improve his trade value since being given away by the Warriors. Its hard to imagine being able to parlay some real value from a guy who just 3 months ago was packaged with some other decent players for a 32 year old PG and some IR guys. If Jamison was able to fetch a Vince Carter, T-Mac or some other great player like I always see in these fantasy trade ideas, why didn't the Warrior's just cut out the middle man(the Mavs) and make a Jamison package with Toronto for Carter or Orlando for Mcgrady or with another team for another impact player? Its kinda like your in a auction with 31 people and you buy a lamp for $10, you can't go back to that same auction the next day with those same 31 people and try to sell that same lamp for $100. If somebody wanted the lamp they would have bid more then $10 for it back when it was up for sale, just because you have now that doesn't mean its value has increased. Picture the people as NBA teams, the lamp as Jamison and the money as trade value, with the $10 being the package the Mavs gave to the W's, and the $100 being what we are expecting back if the Mavs trade Jamison. So when Jamison/Lamp were up for bidding, nobody but the Mavs offered more then chump change for him, now we can't expect for the same NBA teams who didn't offer more then $10, (NVE and scrubs) to all of a sudden do a 180 and give the Mavs alot more then what we paid for. Now on the bright side, the guy who purchased the Lamp(Cuban) is one hell of a sales person, he might be able to fix it, clean it up and make it sound attractive and sell it for more, but it remains to be seen. Now did everybody follow that [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] You can do the exact same thing with Fortson just subsitute "Lamp" with "Baked Potato" "Teletubby" or "Bucket of fat"