Looking forward to the Summer of '05...

[DJ_Money]

...and what could be a major overhaul of this team.

Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Theo Ratliff, Glenn Robinson, Alan Henderson, and Chris Crawford all come off the books. That's over $49 million dollars. With that money, we could go on a massive shopping spree.

That being said, I went and compiled a list of all the potential Free Agents in that year.

Please note, however, that many of these guys may not be unrestricted. The rookie class of 2001 will be RFAs, the class of 2002 will all be on team options. Other player have team or player options that could kick in.

Kobe Bryant, for example, has the option to become a UFA next summer. If he picks up his option, he will stay in LA another year, and be there in '05.

I can say, though, that Iverson, Marbury, and Allen are all UFAs. Anyone else you're interested in, go check hoopshype.com, that's how I compiled the list.

So, here's the rough list. It's a little long...

Potential FAs:

Antoine Walker

Donyell Marshall

Tyson Chandler

Eddy Curry

Zydrunas Illgauskas

Steve Nash

Marcus Camby

Rodney White

Jason Richardson

Troy Murphy

Cuttino Mobley

Eddie Griffin

Jamaal Tinsley

Chris Wilcox

Kobe Bryant

Kareem Rush

Devean George

Pau Gasol

Mike Miller

Shane Battier

Eddie Jones

Caron Butler

Desmond Mason

Troy Hudson

Kerry Kittles

Kenyon Martin

Richard Jefferson

Jamal Mashburn

Latrell Spreewell

Kurt Thomas

Allen Iverson

Keith Van Horn

Eric Snow

Stephon Marbury

Amare Stoudamire

Joe Johnson

Zach Randolph

Bobby Jackson

Hedo Turkoglu

Bruce Bowen

Tony Parker

Ray Allen

Vladimir Radmanovic

Morris Peterson

Andrei Kirilenko

Jerry Stackhouse

Kwame Brown

Brendan Haywood

Juan Dixon

Jared Jeffries

[jjjohns3]

That's a nice list......

~Peace

[Diesel]

Being somewhat Realistic.

Parker/Stack/George/Stoudamire/Heywood.

Could be the NEW Hawks!!

Parker FA acquisition.

George/1st from Lakers for JT.

SAR for Heywood/Stack.

Stoudamire wants to come home to Atown after being with Marbury too long.

That would be an interesting team...> Centered around Amare of course.

[chillzatl]

What makes you think ANY big free agent would want to come here?

It's nice to dream but you have to be realistic. If we play like [censored] until `05 and then let all those players walk, do you really think anyone is going to want to come here for our money when they could just as easily go elsewehre and get the same?

[Diesel]

We have to watch the Nuggets this year for the Answer.

If they are able to get Arenas/Odom and James like everybody say they will.... It might be a notice that going for broke is the way to do it:

Camby/Nene/Odom/James/Arenas....

Add some depth to that team and I'm afraid to play them.

[DJ_Money]

Who said we had to tank anything? We're just headed back in to rebuilding mode?

We remain dormant until 2005, I guess. The team we have now should get us 30 wins, so we pick up a couple lottery picks along the way.

Here's what we do until then:

Sign JT to a medium-sized deal this summer. Bring in journeymen to fill the roster out. No big deals, none more than two years. Smitty and K. Anderson pop into mind first.

So, in the summer of '05 we have JT, Nazr, and any draft picks we get over the next couple years. So, I'd say we're sitting at about $20 million, give or take a few.

That's enough to sign two max players and a couple complementary pieces, and still remain under the cap.

What the [censored] motivated McGrady and Hill to sign with Orlando? Shaq and Penny had fleed town. Why did Duncan stay in San Antonio? Why does Kobe want out of LA?

If the money is there, somebody will come. If say, the Lakers, can offer an equal deal to Player X, he should go with LA.

But, we have $49 million to spend. We can outbid any team in the NBA.

[Guest]

Because people want to play in Orlando...Nobody wants

to play here other than Journeymen needing a contract

like Kenny Anderson and Steve Smith.

[DJ_Money]

What the [censored] is the big draw in Orlando? Mickey?

[Guest]

Well,they actually have some fans that's one.The weather

is nice also....

What do the Hawks have?We have nothing.We area doomed

franchise.The pther players can see it.I had a good article

I posted awhile back with players commenting on playing

here.I wish I still had it.