Rautins is traded do Dallas as a part of the deal according to Alan Hahn.
Weird...I mean we finally DID find a taker for Turiaf in the 11th hour with Washington...Which means we cleared all the necessary cap room to sign Chandler outright now, no? That was the 'Plan A,' right? Then why are we going ahead with plan B, the S&T for Chandler? Makes no sense. I feel like we may have jumped the gun on this trade..You do the S&T once you exhaust ALL POSSIBLE trade possibilities for Turiaf, not before..Not that big a deal I suppose but WTF man, I feel like we just gave away Rautins for nothing here when we may not have had to.
Here we are talking about signing Mike Bibby -- I just looked at this guys stats from last yr in Miami. You know in 20 playoff games (a total of 414 mins logged) he only went to the FT line 4 times. Is that nuts or what? 4 TIMES! Wow. Oh yeah, even though he was good from 3 during the regular season for the Heat (44% I believe) he only shot 20-something % from the field (total AND from 3) in the playoffs. This guy's a far cry from the Mike Bibby of old man. I mean Miami needs a PG and they were content to let this guy go. I tell ya right now, Rautins could've given us more than that. Bibby (at this stage of his career) & Rautins are the same type of players really (not true PGs, more spot up shooters that can bring the ball up), only Rautins is bigger, younger and would've been cheaper. We actually drafted Rautins ahead of Landry, man. Too bad he never got a shot here.