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Cool. Maybe it is good enough, who knows. But it would be nice to have Sheed + Rasho then trade for someone to fill other needs.
Yeah, why not? Sheed and McDyess are good but Collison + Rasho is right there. The addition of Childress probably makes it a wash.
Cool. Maybe it is good enough, who knows. But it would be nice to have Sheed + Rasho then trade for someone to fill other needs.
Collison > Foster...
With as much as the Spurs have wanted him in the past, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he becomes an option if Sheed and Dice are off the board. Not sure how they would get the size but perhaps the Spurs go the best player available route and then try to trade for the size.Childress was in Atlanta last Sunday to meet with the Hawks’ brass and made clear that he would do his due diligence in evaluating his NBA options before deciding whether to return to Greece or not. It’s smart business yet again on the part of Childress, who had drawn interest from a number of other teams (Lakers, Clippers, Cavaliers and Spurs are included in that list, according to my league spies) curious to explore the potential of him making an return to the league now as opposed to at the end of his contract with Olympiakos.
http://blogs.ajc.com/hawks/2009/07/0...id=blogs_hawks
I'm a fan of Childress, and like him in a Spurs uniform. But now with Jefferson on board, I'm not sure how he fits. If that happens, I think you have to package Mason Jr. and Finley for a big. Start Childress at 2, let him slide to 3 when Jefferson is out of the game. Something like that. Childress would actually be perfect with the current line up because he's such a glue guy. He doesn't excel at any one thing, but he does everything very well. He'd fill the cracks.
Childress bypasses Hawks again
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Josh Childress tested the NBA waters again, gauging the possibility of returning to the United States to play basketball.
He decided to go back to Greece, instead.
Childress, a 6-8 swingman who played for four years with the Atlanta Hawks before taking the unusual step of jumping to play in Greece's top pro league last season, had his agent nose around to see what interest there was domestically, according to the Atlanta Journal-Cons ution.
The rights to Josh Childress, a restricted free agent, still belong to the Atlanta Hawks.
But despite inquiries from Milwaukee and Charlotte -- Childress even visited the Bucks -- nothing panned out, the newspaper reported.
"At the end of the day it's a business," Childress told the Journal-Cons ution. "I was in basically the same situation last summer. Again, it's a business and you have to treat it as such."
Childress, 26, was a restricted free agent when he left for a three-year, $20 million deal with Olympiakos last summer. There is an opt-out clause for each season, and his representatives were in talks with the Hawks -- who still own Childress' NBA rights -- about working out a sign-and-trade deal, according to the report.
"When I left Greece to come back [here to the U.S.], I had it in my head that was going back to Greece no matter what," Childress told the Journal-Cons ution. "Then when I got home and had my feet on the ground for a couple of days, I really wanted to explore my options and see what was out there. It was 50-50 from there."
Childress, facing a Wednesday deadline to let Olympiakos know of next season's plans, knew the Greek team wanted him back, especially after he helped it get to the Euroleague final four and a berth in the Greek league championship series. In addition, he missed some of the season because of a hernia.
Childress averaged 13.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.3 steals last season.
"My team did well, but there's no question, I didn't have the year I wanted to have," Childress said, according to the Journal-Cons ution. "And with that being said, I have some serious work left to do in Athens. That was part of my decision to go back, as well."
"They let me know as soon as the season was over that they wanted me back. With me not having the best year I could have, it says a lot about the commitment they made to me that they didn't hesitate to let me know that. It shows me they have a lot of respect for their players."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4326340
http://www.eurobasket.com/Greece/bas...?NewsID=165233
"My team did well, but theres no question, I didnt have the year I wanted to have, Josh Childress said. And with that being said, I have some serious work left to do in Athens. That was part of my decision to go back, as well. It helped, he said, that Olympiakos made it clear that they wanted him back for another year.
They let me know as soon as the season was over that they waned me back, he said. With me not having the best year I could have, it says a lot about the commitment they made to me that they didn't hesitate to let me know that. It shows me they have a lot of respect for their players."
But, but, but "Childress absolutely DOMINATED all those scrubs in Greece".
Or maybe the Hawks didn't want to trade his rights to anyone and he figured that he could just go back to Olymipacos instead of being buried on the Hawks bench. Doesn't hurt him to refine his game b4 he goes up against the best in the worldhttp://www.eurobasket.com/Greece/bas...?NewsID=165233
"My team did well, but theres no question, I didnt have the year I wanted to have, Josh Childress said. And with that being said, I have some serious work left to do in Athens. That was part of my decision to go back, as well. It helped, he said, that Olympiakos made it clear that they wanted him back for another year.
They let me know as soon as the season was over that they waned me back, he said. With me not having the best year I could have, it says a lot about the commitment they made to me that they didn't hesitate to let me know that. It shows me they have a lot of respect for their players."
But, but, but "Childress absolutely DOMINATED all those scrubs in Greece".
He sounds like a guy who likes living abroad. Not everybody is that way - Marcus Haislip, for one, sounded like a guy who hated it and wanted to come home in a desperate way.
Childress makes like 5 times what Haislip made.
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