if he thought that was going to happen. There was no way to keep him, too, especially now that we know that the “less” that EB was willing to take really wasn’t that much “less”.

Corey, EB never gave you the chance. Even if he stayed, you were out, dude. Too bad. That would have been a good team.

if we signed felton, we’d been close to the salary cap. we could have resigned someone else that we hadn’t renounce to get over the cap (like say ross).

then since we did not use the MLE last year we could have signed corey at the MLE. OH well, its all feltons fault.

This whole Brand text-message thing is as good as White House emails from the fourth branch during leak week.

FElton agrees to take less that what he can get, 15 million a year, if the Clips can go out and get a top x-factor player like, say, Baron Davis.

The only way that they can make the offer to Davis is if Maggette opts out. FElton has to opt out too, but he has already been talking to Dunleavy and, for all intents and purposes, figuring out the basic parameters of his deal. Maggette opts out. Then Baron and Brand opt out.

We know now that Dunleavy/Sterling offered FElton a max deal, as much as 6yrs/150 million, if FElton could stay healthy and play at an MVP level like he did in 05-06. Not only did FElton get paid 15 million for playing in 8 games in 07-08, but there was also a notable drop off in his 06-07 season. So FElton had to show his value out on the court, get the team to the playoffs, and he would be rewarded. He decided to get the most money he could right now, and make a new deal. This made sense because he could do that and try to position himself on a winning team at the same time. He and Dunleavy agreed that through Brand’s agreement to leave some money on the table, they would try to build a “super team” with multiple stars, like the Celtics or the Lakers.

The Clips closed Baron’s deal. Dunleavy was ecstatic. He rushed to FElton, who agreed to 15 million a year, but FElton had to tell his agent.

Here’s my question. Let’s say that FElton and Baron both closed their deals at these terms. What would the Clippers have been able to offer Maggette? Was there an agreement that Maggette would take a reduction as well?

Did FElton’s emails to teammates saying “you, me, and BD” include Maggette? If it wasn’t, and the Clips wouldn’t have had even enough money to Maggette the MLE, how does Maggette have this misperception? Is he just clueless? What teammate did receive the “you, me, and BD” email? Kaman? Mobley? Livingston?

We looked at this from a different perspective before Brand’s deal went awry, and it probably was covered somewhere. But with Maggette saying this, I wonder if he’s just clueless or if there was a possibility that it might have really happened.

By Doug Krikorian. Here.

“I’m certain we could have gone on to win the world title with that team that season (05/06) if it weren’t for Dunleavy,” Maggette once told my friend Doug Blazak, a Clipper season-ticket holder.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/pla ... id=3482788

starts at 15:35 mark

he says he expected all 3 to be on the clips

the above didn’t hyperlink …try this 1….its the 7/11 podcast
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/archive?id=3028618