重点节录 七六人目前扣掉 Iguodala 跟 Louis Williams 至少有 11M 的薪资空间 如果我们能把 Carney 跟 Booth 搓掉，换成现金 and TE 我们也许能开出 14M 起薪的合约给 Brand 另外据氏家族表示，如果 Brand 决心离开 LA, 那费城比奥客兰还吸引他 因为我们重建已经几乎完成了，上一季大家共通拼斗的成果， 果然是自由市场最佳的招牌～ Monday, July 7, 2008 Sixers trying to get in position to lure Brand from West Coast By Marc Stein ESPN.com http://tinyurl.com/6a28v9 It's starting to look as though the biggest threat to the Los Angeles Clippers re-signing franchise forward Elton Brand can be found much further east than Oakland. NBA front-office sources told ESPN.com on Monday night that the Philadelphia 76ers are again "actively involved" in the Brand hunt after initially fearing that they couldn't compete financially with the Clippers and Golden State Warriors. Although the leaguewide consensus remains that Brand will return to Hollywood to form a new partnership with Clipper-to-be Baron Davis, sources said the Sixers are growing increasingly confident in their ability to create additional salary-cap space by finding a new home via trade for swingman Rodney Carney and then make a sufficiently rich offer to Brand. Dealing away Carney -- with Memphis and Minnesota quickly emerging as possible destinations -- would shed nearly $1.7 million from the Sixers' payroll next season as long as the trade doesn't require new GM Ed Stefanski to take any salary back. The Sixers are already expecting to have at least $11 million in salary-cap space to spend when the league announces next season's cap figure to all 30 teams Tuesday night. If the cap ceiling for the 2008-09 season comes in higher than the widely projected estimate of $58-to-59 million -- and if the Sixers can indeed move Carney and/or center Calvin Booth -- Philadelphia could have the flexibility to start a five-year offer to Brand at a first-year salary in the $14 million range. Sources said that the Sixers remain highly interested in Atlanta Hawks restricted free agent Josh Smith, but it appears that Philly will give itself every chance to emerge as the unlikely winner of the Brand sweepstakes before deciding whether to sign Smith to an offer sheet that the Hawks would have seven days to match. If Philadelphia can indeed manufacture a first-year salary of at least $14 million, that would be in the same ballpark as the Clippers, who must preserve enough cap space in retaining Brand to formally sign Davis to the five-year, $65 million deal which the former Golden State point guard verbally agreed to last week. The Warriors can still outbid L.A. and Philadelphia for Brand thanks to Davis' defection. If next season's salary cap is announced at $59 million or thereabouts, as expected, Golden State should have the wherewithal to offer Brand a five-year deal worth just over $95 million. Sources close to the process told ESPN.com on Monday that the Warriors continue to have dialogue with the Brand camp and have not abandoned hope of luring the 29-year-old to Northern California. Yet separate sources suggested Monday that Brand -- if he's ultimately drawn away from his Face of the Franchise status with the Clippers -- would be more inclined to jump to Philadelphia than Golden State, given the Sixers' residence in a conference with far fewer contenders than the West and the opportunity to join a young Philly nucleus (Andre Miller, Andre Iguodala and the considerable wingspan of center Samuel Dalembert) that won many admirers as last season progressed. -- ╓─── ◢██◣ ◢██◣ ║ ◢◢◣◣ █ ◣ ◥◥◥█ ████ ║ ████ ▃ █ █ ◥ ▄▄ ▇ ▇◥ ████ ║ ████ ▅ █ █ ◥▄ ◤ ◥ ︶◤ ◥██◤ ║ ◥◤◥◤ ◤ ◥ █ ▄ ◢ ◣▄ ＜威◥ ◤█＞ ╙─── || ----- || willyt@ptt/ptt2 --

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