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Originally published 07:32 p.m., July 15, =
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07:32 p.m., July 15, 2008
Joe Mahoney =C2=A9 The Rocky
Nuggets center Marcus Camby, above, has been traded = to the Los=20 Angeles Clippers, his agent confirmed Tuesday night. The deal is = believed to be=20 for a future second-round pick in what appears to be a move for = salary-cap=20 purposes.
Did the Nuggets to the right = thing by=20 trading Marcus Camby?
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Nuggets center Marcus Camby has been traded to the Los Angeles = Clippers, his=20 agent confirmed Tuesday night.
The deal is believed to be for a 2010 second-round pick in a move his = agent,=20 Rick Kaplan, said was made for salary-cap purposes.
=E2=80=9CThey definitely got their money=E2=80=99s = worth,=E2=80=99=E2=80=99 Kaplan said of the Clippers=E2=80=99=20 acquisition.
Camby has a base salary next season of $8 million. His cap number is = $10=20 million when one takes into account $2 million in bonuses for games = played that=20 he earned last season.
Because the Nuggets are deep into the dollar-for-dollar luxury tax, = the move=20 could end up saving them between $16 million and $22.5 million. If Camby = reaches=20 all of his games bonuses and statistical bonuses worth $1.25 million, = that=E2=80=99s how=20 the $22.5 million figure is attained.
The move signals the Nuggets are serious about cutting payroll this=20 offseason. Before the Camby move, the Nuggets had nine players with = guaranteed=20 contracts totaling more than $79 million, which is about $8 million over = the NBA=20 luxury tax threshold.
Nuggets vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said he would = address=20 the media in a conference call later this evening.
Camby was named NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 2006-07 and = finished=20 second last season. He has been named to the All-Defensive first team at = center=20 two straight years.
The move leaves the Nuggets with a big hole at center. Nene can play = center,=20 but missed much of last season due to testicular cancer = surgery.
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July 15, 2008
7:44 p.m.
Steve_In_Denver writes:
*Sigh*
July 15, 2008
7:58 p.m.
fjv1026 writes:
Nice...
July 15, 2008
7:59 p.m.
dpbevan writes:
IS THIS A JOKE?!! camby is worth a future second round pick?! i can = agree=20 that trading camby helps give the team some flexibility in trying to = build=20 this team into a winner. i can't understand how we managed to trade = the runner=20 up for defensive player of the year and get basically nothing in = return. we=20 can't even blame this one on issel or bickerstaff...can we also trade = rex=20 chapman and mark warkentien?