<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DEERFIELD, Ill. -- First and foremost, it was the money that brought Ben Wallace to the Chicago Bulls. They were offering a starting salary of $16 million -- more than $4 million more than what the Detroit Pistons were offering -- and the bottom line, we all know, is that money talks. But there was another factor, too, one that Wallace had kept pent up until now, that made his decision an easier one. He did not like coach Flip Saunders, not one bit. And the fury he felt toward his former coach after sitting out the final 12 minutes of Detroit's final playoff game last season stuck with him through June and into July -- a month that began with Bulls general manager John Paxson and coach Scott Skiles ringing his doorbell on the afternoon of the July 1, coming into his home and making a three-hour pitch to Wallace and his then-pregnant wife, Chanda. A considerable amount of trepidation was rattling around inside Paxson's head that afternoon when he first walked in the door, but the feeling he exited with three hours later was somewhat hopeful. "I didn't know how realistic it was. I think all of us thought it would be very difficult to get Ben out of Detroit, though we saw there might be a crack in the door just from reading stuff," Paxson said. There had been an episode in Orlando late in the season when Wallace refused to re-enter a game, and then there was Game 6 in Miami and the quotes from Wallace afterward that indicated all was not quite so hunky-dory over on the other side of Lake Michigan.</div> http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/trainingcamp...ht&lid=tab4pos1
<div class="quote_poster">CPaulDWade#3 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">that, and the fact they payed him 60 million dollars.</div> it's "Paid" not "payed" not trying to nitpick but that's a word everyone should know how to spell.
Lets not turn this into an English lesson guys, please stay on topic, or i'll be forced to take action.
<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">it's "Paid" not "payed" not trying to nitpick but that's a word everyone should know how to spell. </div> MAN!!! Im freaking 13 years old i dont care about grammar! sorry, but this is a forum, so im not that worried about my grammar and spelling.
Big Ben really loves his defense, Flip didn't. Chicago seems to be a team that focuses on D so, it will be interesting to see how Wallace fits in with them. I think he is overpaid though.
