<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The revamped Toronto Raptors have reportedly added another new face. The Raptors have worked out a sign-trade deal with the Philadelphia 76ers for guard-forward John Salmons, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Friday. The 76ers will receive a second-round draft pick and a $2 million US trade exception. Salmons, 26, has reportedly agreed to terms on a $23-million, five-year deal with the Raptors. Salmons chose Toronto over the Phoenix Suns, who could only offer a deal averaging $3.7 million a year due to salary cap constraints. "John had two great choices and chose Toronto based on a variety of factors," Salmons' agent Joel Bell told the Daily News on Friday. "He wanted to think through all the possibilities before he reached a decision." Salmons averaged 7.5 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 25.1 minutes while playing all 82 games for Philadelphia last season. The six-foot-six swingman is one of the more unheralded athletes in the NBA, a quality sought by both the retooling Raptors and the run-gun Suns. The 26th overall pick in the 2002 draft, Salmons has averaged 5.1 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 18.4 minutes in 281 career games, all with Philadelphia. The move comes on the same day the Raptors announced the signing of former Maccabi Tel Aviv star Anthony Parker to a three-year deal. The Raptors also called a Saturday morning news conference where they will announce the re-signing of all-star forward Chris Bosh to a multi-year contract extension. </div> link: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Basketball/NBA/T...1683552-cp.html
We will regret this in the future. We would regret it even more if he had been traded to the Suns though, Salmons has all the tools to succeed in the NBA. For some reason he was not able to fulfill those expectations in his hometown of Philadelphia, but he will be a good player in the NBA. Salmons was the only one on the team last season that would not just stand around and watch AI/Webber play two on five. Unfortunately, he caught a lot of unwarranted criticism for that. Sad to see him go we could have gotten more for him if King was a better general manager, but what’s done is done.
You think he'll have a better career than Willie Green. I wasn't able to catch many 76ers games on TV. The ones I saw Green usually did well, but he has had injuries.
