Free Agent: Elton Brand

[Marcus Bryant]

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Elton Brand | F
Born: Mar 11, 1979
Height: 6-8 / 2,03
Weight: 254 lbs. / 115,2 kg.
College: Duke
Years Pro: 8

Info (http://www.nba.com/playerfile/elton_brand/index.html)

[SPURSGOAT]

Yes plz! see if he will take the MLE. :p: :rolleyes

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Split the MLE with him and Iverson.

[Spur-Addict]

Split the MLE with him and Iverson.

:lmao...in a perfect world my spurs brethren

[PM5K]

He'd be perfect, he's a beast, it will never happen.

[silk]

So it's the "let's dreamin'" tread ? Spurs will snub Elton Brand and give MLE to Josh Smith , he would fit in better i think.... ^^

[td4mvp21]

This would be nice :tu

[T Park]

If he had a brain he would do it.

But Im sure the lure of even MORE money will sway him otherways.

[hsxvvd]

MLE and my left nut for this guy!

[Doctor J]

I will die for this possibility. But can we keep the all big 3? A big question...

[m33p0]

elton brand will make a killing this summer. there will be GMs who will try to forget that he just had a knee reconstructed.

[Russ]

I like but Brand but I don't think he is ideal for the Spurs for some of the same reasons that Scola wasn't. He a big low post shooter (like Duncan) and he's not quick enough at the this point to play much D down low (a real Spurs need). On the other hand, he would help the Spurs on the boards.

Bottom line, no way the Spurs can get him anyway with their cap situation

[MoSpur]

I would do back flips if he came. I love the Clippers and would hate to see him leave the Clippers, but if he came to the Spurs, it would be alright with me. Offer all the MLE, free Time Warner service, free groceries from H.E.B, and free gas from Valero.

[rascal]

MLE and my left nut for this guy!

Your left nut doesn't have any trade value.

[MoSpur]

If he had a brain he would do it.

But Im sure the lure of even MORE money will sway him otherways.

So if he takes more money, he doesn't have a brain???

:rolleyes

[Duncanoypi]

2002 West Finals Thread

[MoSpur]

Brand still undecided
June 12th, 2008, 6:12 pm · Post a Comment · posted by ART THOMPSON III, OCREGISTER.COM
Clippers forward Elton Brand knows Clipper Nation does not really care how well his off-season workouts have been going. Clipper Nation really isn’t concerned about how Brand’s left Achilles’ tendon feels.

A 17.6 points per game and eight rebounds per game in the eight contests he finally was able to get in, to finish out the season, would attest to Brand returning as good as new, from last summer’s injury, that cost him all but 74 games in 2007-2008.

No, what fans want to know, is whether Brand will exercise the opt-out on the final year of his contract that is due to pay him $16,440,000 for the 2008-2009 season. Brand’s agent, David Falk, has been having preliminary discussions with the Clippers.

“Nothing’s really come up,” Brand said Thursday. “We’re just looking at the landscape. He’ll probably know more in the next week and a half or two weeks. But I’m here now, training and getting prepared.”

There have been rumors that Brand not only is considering opting out but also rejecting any contract offer the Clippers extend and instead severing ties with the franchise that he has played for the past seven years.

Including his first two seasons with the Chicago Bulls, Brand has averaged 20.3 points and 10.1 rebounds.

“Even if there is an opt-out, it doesn’t mean I’m going to a new team,” Brand clarified. “It’s hinging on my agent saying to me, ‘Here are your options.”’

So what does Brand believe is his best-case scenario?

“The best-case scenario is to be here and to get to the championship, in the time that we have, and then everything would be great,” Brand said.

[mardigan]

Brand to opt out, hopes to work out deal with Clippers
By J.A. Adande
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: June 30, 2008, 9:49 PM ET


Elton Brand said on Monday that he is opting out of the final year of his contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, but that he hopes to re-sign with the team.

"We're opting out," Brand said. "It definitely doesn't mean I'm leaving the Clippers. We're trying to work it out. My intention is to stay."

Brand is forgoing the $16.4 million on the last year of his deal, a final decision he made at Monday's deadline to notify the team and the league. Earlier in the day, teammate Corey Maggette filed the paperwork to opt out of his contract, the Los Angeles Times reported, creating potentially $10 million of salary cap space if the Clippers do not re-sign him.

Brand's agent, David Falk, said the forward wants to see the Clippers sign a quality free agent and try to assemble a winning team in Los Angeles.

"It preserves options to make the team better," Falk said. "Clearly, if Elton decided he wanted to simply max out the dollars, he would have stayed in the deal, had a monster year and a lot more teams will have cap room next year."

Brand now has the right to leave the Clippers without compensation. Yet it's more likely that he would push for a sign-and-trade to a new team if he can't negotiate a new long-term deal to his liking with L.A, which Falk insists is Brand's preferred scenario.

Memphis and Philadelphia are the only teams with the requisite salary-cap space this summer to make sufficiently lucrative offers to sign Brand away from the Clippers outright. Even the Sixers  despite their publicly stated interest in acquiring a power play  might not have enough with an estimated $11 million to offer for a first-year salary.

It's believed that the Miami Heat will make another hard pitch to land Brand via trade. The contract Brand is vacating was originally signed with Miami when the 29-year-old power forward was a restricted free agent in the summer of 2003, with the Clippers matching that seven-year, $82 million deal.

Falk said a visit to Boston for Game 2 of the NBA Finals influenced Brand's decision to opt out.

"He watched what happened when a few stars get together and agree to have a communal effort," Falk said. "He said 'That's what I'd like to accomplish in my career.'"

Of course it helps to trade for a couple of All-Stars, as the Celtics did when they acquired Ray Allen and then Kevin Garnett. The Clippers have a solid young frontcourt in Brand, center Chris Kaman and Al Thornton, who is coming off a promising rookie season. Guard Cuttino Mobley has two seasons remaining on his contract, and the Clippers selected Indiana guard Eric Gordon with No. 7 pick in the draft last week.

Since Shaun Livingston's devastating knee injury last season, point guard has been the Clippers' most unsettled position. Beno Udrih of the Sacramento Kings is an unrestricted free agent and a potential target.

Brand injured his knee last summer and appeared in only eight games near the end of the 2007-08 season, averaging 17.6 points and 8.0 rebounds. The best season in his nine-year career came in 2005-06, when he averaged 24.7 points, 10.0 rebounds, shot 53 percent and led the franchise into the second round of the playoffs for the first time since it played in Buffalo in 1976.

On Monday, Brand sounded interested in staying in Los Angeles. He has branched out into film production (his first movie, "Rescue Dawn," was released last year) and his wife is expecting a son in October.

"Right now it's just trying to solidify my future and work things out with the Clippers," Brand said. "I've got a lot of going on."


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