Milwaukee made 2 trades just before the deadline today. Gone are K.V.H. and Mike James (along with some cash money, american); in are Reece Gaines, Calvin Booth, and Alan Henderson - and 2 second round draft picks.
Booth and Henderson are both as good as gone next year. I think Gaines will hang around for a while, and might turn out to be a good player. But the real reason for these trades was to clear up some cash money for Michael Redd this summer.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
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booth has two more years on his contract for about $7 mil per. henderson is gone at season’s end.
my hope was that they would swing one more deal… like joe smith to new jersey. that would have given us enough cash to go after another max player, if my math is right. honestly, i’m glad that didn’t pan out. i have too few nice pants to soil yet another pair.
harris is a damned genius for getting rid of kvh’s contract.
so we can sign redd now, and problably get a decent mid-level player to compliment him.
go bucks…. go buchs too!
Posted February 24, 2005 at 5:21 pm by shux .
I feel it’s necessary for me to chime in here and everywhere else that will have me regarding the dumping of Keith Van Horn’s contract.
That contract was so bad that I will refer to his entire tenure with the Milwaukee Bucks solely as though we had a binding legal document wearing a uniform. The Keith Van Horn Contract was bupkus on the floor and only depressed everyone in the front office.
Trading the Keith Van Horn Contract was possibly the most ingenious move Larry Harris has ever pulled off.
I’m a little more disappointed in the Mike James trade. I’ll trust Harris on this one, but James was growing on me. I thought he would have been even better with some seasoning.
All in hall, a pretty good day for the Bucks.
Posted February 25, 2005 at 9:53 am by Jim .