Author Topic: Harrington trade to Indiana very close to completed (Read 151 times)

Spicemuthafuc*in1 · « **on:** July 28, 2006, 12:05:37 AM »

It looks like the Hawks get 3 million in cash and a future 1st round pick and The Pacers get Al Harrington and John Edwards.
With Jermaine Oneal, Danny Granger, Stephen Jackson, and Al Harrington we can become contenders again!

Now_Im_Not_Banned · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2006, 10:01:43 AM »

I dunno about contenders, but if this trade goes down, you got a dangerous squad...PeACe

rik · « **Reply #2 on:** July 28, 2006, 10:05:56 AM »

That would be a hell of a trade for the Indy.

$do11a biLL$ · « **Reply #3 on:** July 28, 2006, 01:23:35 PM »

If i were gm of Atlanta i'd be like fuck no.. ain't gonna happen especially a 1st round pick from a team as good as Indiana because they would most likely get a crappy player in return for their second best player on the team.

Unless Atlanta wants to become a last place team once again.

Now_Im_Not_Banned · « **Reply #4 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:01:08 PM »

Quote from: SEAN 3000 on July 28, 2006, 01:23:35 PM

If i were gm of Atlanta i'd be like fuck no.. ain't gonna happen especially a 1st round pick from a team as good as Indiana because they would most likely get a crappy player in return for their second best player on the team.

Unless Atlanta wants to become a last place team once again.

Atlanta should be happy to get ANYTHING from this trade, Harrington is an unrestricted free agent...PeACe

Now_Im_Not_Banned · « **Reply #5 on:** July 28, 2006, 08:12:08 PM »

Hawks have stipulations, but Harrington deal still likely

Although it remains unclear how much longer the Indiana Pacers will have to wait to complete their widely anticipated re-acquisition of Al Harrington, sources close to the situation maintain that the sign-and-trade swap will go through.

The Atlanta Hawks, however, have apparently established three prerequisites before signing and trading Harrington back to the team that drafted him in 1998.

The Hawks, according to sources, want the Pacers to part with a future first-round pick, absorb the contract of third-year center John Edwards and kick in $3 million in cash considerations, which is the maximum amount any team can add to a trade.

It's believed that the Pacers want to either scale back the quality of the draft pick or reduce the cash contribution.

This delay, though, hasn't changed the leaguewide perception that Harrington's return to Indiana is an inevitability. He might technically be the biggest name left on the NBA's free-agent market, but teams don't seem to regard him as available. Industry sources say no one else but the Pacers are presently chasing Harrington....

The $7.5 million trade exception thus looms as one of the most valuable assets of the offseason. It initially looked as though the Pacers would lose Stojakovic without compensation, but a payment to the Hornets believed to be in the $250,000 range -- coupled with the Hornets' knowledge that they'd likely be keeping Harrington away from a fellow West playoff hopeful like Golden State or the Los Angeles Lakers -- turned the Stojakovic deal from an outright free-agent signing into a sign-and-trade that created the trade exception.

In the unlikely event that the deal with the Hawks collapses, it's difficult to forecast where Harrington will turn. Most teams have completed their significant free-agent business for the summer and Harrington's other top suitors have stopped pursuing him, believing that the Pacers have him wrapped up. The Warriors, Lakers and New York Knicks, furthermore, don't have a sizable trade exception to complete the sort of trade Atlanta's owners prefer, in which the Hawks don't have to take back significant salary.