Jazz/Magic

[JazzGM-old]

agreed, sorry..

[KingsGM-old]

i don't like it for the jazz. francis is making way too much money for that kind of stats. i guess he was goin for the youth

[JazzGM-old]

The youth was the main factor. It is very difficult to get a good young PG  being that most of them are still in rookie contracts and their owners value their age over Kidd. It also just takes too much cap to match up with Kidd. Francis can now grow with the rest of my players, (Kirilenko, Jefferson, Okur), whereas Kidd would be leaving right as that core hits their prime. I needed to make a move and Francis was the best bet I was going to get considering his youth, his talent, and making the contracts work out. Kidd is also a liability for getting hurt and I was only going to see that getting worse as he gets older. He's already been out close to 30 days this season, I was doing pretty well without him...now Francis comes in giving only 2 assists less a game, and is a more dependable scoring option on a team where he doesn't need to be. On the magic, supposedly he was playing out of position at SG and wasn't even one of the top three scoring options and was still putting up decent numbers.