"No sense in easing our way around this: losing Carlos Boozer to the Utah Jazz was a pretty harsh blow. It doesn't come close to erasing the giddiness that comes from owning the rights to the NBA's Next Great (Greatest?) Thing for the immediate future, but it's a step back. Unfortunately for Cavs fans, there have been quite a few steps back over Jim Paxson's tenure as GM. No point in easing around that -- uh, point -- either. The years kind of blend together. Ugly uniforms, dimly lit arenas, Trajan Langdon and inept coaching will do that. Fans deserved a break, an out-of-nowhere (or Duke) kid that cost the pittance of a second-round pick, a fortuitous spin of the Draft lottery wheel; you know, the sort of things that happen to the "lucky" teams. In a cosmic sense, Boozer and LeBron James were the just rewards for fans who had to deal with the DeSagana Diop draft, the Shawn Kemp trade and Ricky Davis' braids." Source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/bask...cavs/index.html
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">"To his credit, Paxson has rebounded, acting proactively without overreacting since Boozer (depending on whom you ask) reneged after giving his implied, oral consent (and not express, written consent) to a contract extension with Cleveland."</div> From the same article, best part of it... -Raiden
How was that the state of the Cavs? He didn't even say the name of any of our players exept Diop. Did this writer get paid for this??
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting HardCore_BOozer:</div><div class="quote_post">How was that the state of the Cavs? He didn't even say the name of any of our players exept Diop. Did this writer get paid for this??</div> Click on the link below, the full article is there... -Raiden
