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There is no freaking way we could get Camby at $5-$6MM per year. Not a chance. He will command at least $8MM. I think we need to offer him a 2 year deal with a 3rd year team option at 8 per.
There is risk to Camby, but I'd take that risk for two years, if Allen is willing. The big problem with the Ratliff/Miles contracts was that they were locked into bad deals on a bad team. Bad deals on a bad team pretty much prevents the team from improving. Portland has become a very good team, with room for internal improvements. They're not going to have cap room for the foreseeable future. Camby represents probably the only chance to use money to potentially upgrade the team for the next few years. In the worst case scenario (he goes Ratliff and loses all his defensive intensity and will to play), it's dead money...but dead money that really couldn't have been reinvested elsewhere.* In the best case scenario, he remains motivated and effective for another year or two and gives Portland easily the best front court rotation in the game with Oden/Aldridge/Camby and needed big man insurance if a starter gets hurt. *All of this is moot of Allen has financial qualms about locking up players like Oden, Batum and perhaps Bayless and Fernandez down the line. In that case, dead money to Camby would absolutely hamper the team. In that case, the team has to be very careful.
He was trying to play with injuries on a losing team. We got Theo and Shareef for Sheed on 2/9/04. Theo played every game that season and looked good. We signed him to $36M on 9/28/04. He played only 63 games that season and 55 the next. Then we traded him with Telfair for Foye and LaFrentz. The old, "He turned into Roy and Miller" argument.
Here is the footage of "sick" Turkoglu out on the town. http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2010/03/31/the-jones-hedo-turkoglu-party-machine/
