The 76ers have decided to use the amnesty clause on Elton Brand

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    If a team had $8M in cap space, there would be worse ways to spend it than on Brand.
     
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    Miss Elton, that's for sure. Great, great guy.
     
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    I think it a stupid move by Philly. Unless they're desperate for the cap space. In theory, they had an $18M expiring contract and those things used to have value (and I think still do).
     
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    Expirings are inconsistent little devils. They can be great under the right circumstances or they can be worthless under others. Philly seems intent on making some moves now. You have to believe that they tried getting what they want using the expiring, but couldn't make it work. No team wants to eat millions to watch a still serviceable player of theirs play for someone else.
     
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    I guess $18M in cap space is a lot, but you'd hate to use the Amnesty clause on a guy whose contract is expiring (or who has a rather small contract).

    I would think the time to deal for expiring contracts is at the trade deadline, not during the summer.
     
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    I would think that you're right, but therein lies the rub. Philly was fighting for their playoff lives at the trade deadline and Brand was starting for them. The Sixers corps of big men was nothing to write home about when fully healthy and Hawes was out at the time. Unless they could have traded him for a big man who was at least as good as Brand right out of the box, that'd be a tough trade to make.
     
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    I meant THIS upcoming trade deadline.
     
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    Of course you were. Pretty dumb on my part.
     
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