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It's nice to see Flip Murray did not make the list. Sure he doesn't make much, but the writer still saw fit to attack the Bonzi signing, which was for a total of $5 million over 2 years, or in other words, PEANUTS.

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Yeah, but he cited Bonzi's locker room cancer not the contract.

I'd pick the Stojakovic signing as the worst.

-He'll be 34 by the end of that contract.

-Has been injury prone the last several years

-Relatively one dimensional shooter;cannot create his own shot, awful defender, not much of a passer

-Has a history of being terrible in the playoffs

-Still has 4 years, 54 million on his contract

NOR could have picked up a younger shooter for much less. Even if Stojakovic stays healthy, his production probably won't live up to his contract.

If we didn't sign Nazr it would have been Przybilla and he made the list too. And there were a lot of folks who wanted Mike James and he made the list too.


One way or another we were going to get stuck with a poor choice.

I told you guys we would regret that Nazr deal. We can't even unload that garbage 'tract cause no one wants the guy....ESPECIALLY at that money. Even if people thought we would have had to trade because RE: him and Flip butting heads, we could have hijacked a ton of talent from another team in return instead of getting nothing

I would have much rather had Ben at 4 years $52 Mil...which I think was entirely possible judging from the $48 we offered...and I seriously doubt we would have made this list. CHI front loaded his deal and if we were so worried about him "losing a step" as the ABB suggests, we could have done the same.

Just think...no one running away from Lebron James as he drives to the basket with the game on the line.

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I would add Ben Wallace to the list.

Here is why.

• They paid him $15.5M last year
• His FG% went down by 57 bases points
• His FT shooting fell to .408
• Points down 12%
• Rebounds down 5%
• Blocks down 9%
• Steals down 22%
• Turnovers UP 22%
• They fared better when he was on the bench than when he was on the floor (in terms of scoring more than the other team).
• When he was on the floor, their FG% was 1.5% worse
• When he was on the floor, their allowed FG% was 3.7% worse.

They didn't get what they overpaid for. And they lost to us in the post season.

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Talk to me when CHI has a roster with the talent equivalent to Billups, Hamilton, Prince, Sheed, McDyess, Delfino, & Maxiell

That's like saying apples do a better job of being apples than oranges do. CHI doesn't have the full talent on their roster as we did. There's no way you can say they didn't get their money's worth because it's not like they had the same level of players. If they had the same level of players that we did, they would have beat our arses. We couldn't even beat CLE without Ben. At least WITH Ben we could be the CAVS.

And, you can talk about scoring more than the other team all you want, but when you can't stop the other team from scoring at will (a la Lebron going to the hole untouched) you will lose. He helps that team, just like he helped our team and for the most part, he was the reason they stayed in games with us because half their roster failed to show up in our series. If citing offensive numbers for a defensive player makes people feel better about it, so be it. The guy has NEVER been an offensive player in his career, but it's awfully convenient that offense is the determining factor for everyone claiming he's worthless. Last time I checked, Ben Wallace wasn't Ben Wallace because he avg. 20 ppg and shot 98% from the line.

I'd happily have his 13 MIL on our salary cap in order to see Lebron's layups and dunks tossed back down his throat.

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Their defense was better when Ben Wallace was on the bench too. I thought I pointed that out.

I don't think the rest of the Bulls roster is as bad as you think it is. There was a pretty good debate going on heading into our series with Chicago about how we matched up with them position for position. And don't forget that even if we had a slight talent advantage, we were being coached by a moron... and we still won.

Low, I really like Ben Wallace. I root for the Bulls when they aren't playing the Pistons. But I think the Bulls would have been better off keeping Tyson Chandler for 2/3 the cost.

And I will admit that the Pistons may have been better with Ben... but I'm not sure we would have been good enough, and the salary ramifications are something to consider.

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I just don't see how it would have been a factor given our record with FA's and Drafties. We haven't done ourselves any favors with the the apparent "FA Money" we have and we just gave Billups the same kind of money without blinking, or without making any excuses of "losing a step," "being a malcontent," even though being cocky and having a lack of overall effort has been present for two seasons.

We've spend our FA money on cats like Half Price and Flip Jr...fantastic uses for all that FA money we saved ourselves. All I know is spare me the occasional Joe Smith, Flip Murray signings and keep someone who's proven their value around.