<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After tonight, Vince Carter's next game could be in Magic uniform Posted on May 16, 2007 11:34:05 AM Discuss This: Comments (6) | TrackBack (0) | Linking Blogs | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it If the New Jersey Nets are knocked out of the playoffs tonight, the next time you see Vince Carter on a basketball floor he could be wearing a Magic uniform. I have to believe that the Magic will start courting Carter --- who can become a free agent this summer -- once the flag drops July 1. Make that at 12:01 a.m. And they should. Has VC had a largely forgettable series against the Cavs? No doubt. Did he hurt his value? Probably. But can he help a young team like the Magic get a seed higher than No. 8 by carrying them through some lulls during a regular season? Absolutely. The Nets say they will try to keep Carter, but not likely at maximum salary. (I think VC is going to be surprised that no one will offer him another max deal.) GM Rod Thorn also says he wants to execute a sign-and-trade if he can't work out something with Carter. He likely wants a big and another player. We've had this scenario working early in the season: Magic re-sign Darko Milicic and ship him to the Nets for a deal involving VC. Even if they gave Darko $8 mill to start his new contract, they would have to add another player to a deal with the Nets to match VC's salary. Maybe Keyon Dooling, who makes $3 million. That would add up to about $11 mill --- and that's a top-end figure for Carter, who is on the wrong side of 30 as they say. Carter would, in essence, replace Grant Hill in the lineup. Yes, the Magic would lose Milicic, breaking up the proposed Darko-Dwight duo. It's a risk, sure, because Darko could end up becoming a really good player. Maybe the Magic could send Hedo Turkoglu and his $7 million salary and Dooling, but that's not what the Nets want most likely. There's this from the New York Post's Marc Berman on Carter, who likely will seek a max deal. "The Nets don't appear interested in going that high, and Thorn was only lukewarm last week when he talked about re-upping with Carter, who's had a miserable second-round series and was the goat of Game 4. The prevailing wisdom is that Thorn will look to execute a sign-and-trade with another team and get back a big-man banger and a young player. "We're going to try to sign him," Thorn told WFAN. "We'd like to bring back our base if that's possible. It may not be possible. If we can't sign Carter, the ways Carter can leave is go someplace else under the cap or sign-and-trade. The more likely is to go in a sign-and-trade someplace. Who knows what's going to happen there?" </div> http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_ma...vince_cart.html Why does Schmitz want to get rid of Darko so badly?
Brian Schmitz has been all over the idea of acquiring Vince Carter since the rumor started last offseason. He loves the idea of having a high flying superstar in town and thinks Carter can be our go-to guy in the late stages of the game when nobody else on our team steps up. I, on the other hand, would hate giving up on Darko (who played great in the playoffs) just for Vince (who played horrible in the playoffs).
<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Brian Schmitz has been all over the idea of acquiring Vince Carter since the rumor started last offseason. He loves the idea of having a high flying superstar in town and thinks Carter can be our go-to guy in the late stages of the game when nobody else on our team steps up. I, on the other hand, would hate giving up on Darko (who played great in the playoffs) just for Vince (who played horrible in the playoffs).</div> I'm sure you are the only person that feels that way.
I support vince coming to otown, but for the price of darko? ehh I dont mind giving them hedo or grant hill.. but vince only has maybe 3-4 years left(most likely declining in production each year) and darko is a 7' ft 22 year old with more potential. I rather keep darko and try to find another shooter somewhere else
The Magic could seriously stop worrying about offensive production and finding a scoring swingman if they just gave Dwight Howard the damn ball. Although a nice perimeter player would be nice, I don't think that big name players would benefit Dwight Howard's already dwindling amount of shots per game.
I think we need to get out of the habbit of trading young guys for dinosaurs. What does Vince do for us? ESPN Highlights? We still have many missing pieces for a championship run, and Vince isn't one of them.
