Eric Williams

[mavs>spurs2]

That's by design. They all got plenty of burn last year even with Harrington's playing 37 mpg, so I don't see any reason for any of them to be dumped with Al out of the picture.

MPG last season:

Marvin Williams -- 24.7
Josh Smith -- 32.0
Josh Childress -- 30.4
Joe Johnson -- 40.7

Yes and it didn't get them very far. I don't think its unreasonable to say the spurs could get Childress for the right price. Although i'm sure Joe Johnson and Josh Smith would probably be out of their range.

[ChumpDumper]

At some point, at least one of those will be moved, either let go thru FA or traded. Every young player wants to get PAID. ATL will not pay all 4 of them.

Let's not act like all four are max players. Anyway they have two more years until they have to start worrying about any of that. Their main problem for the next two summers will be meeting the league minimum payroll. They certainly won't be trading a young star for cap relief.

Don't forget that JJ played heavy minutes at PG last year. The drop off available minutes there, with Speedy on board and starting, will almost offset the new minutes available from Harrington's departure.

Speedy will play 30 mpg if he's extremely lucky. More than likely he'll miss his usual 20-30 games. Plenty of time for everyone else.

Also, don't forget that this current owner who wrested control this summer from the coup group of last year did NOT want to pay JJ. That was the point of combustibility that set off the coup last year, as a matter of fact.

Untrue. He was all for paying JJ -- he didn't want to trade Diaw and two first rounders when he thought they didn't have to.

[ChumpDumper]

And the Hawk whose minutes are going to take the biggest hit is....


....Salim Stoudamire.