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Carlos Boozer

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The basketball team is the one USA team that I could care less if they lose. Except if Michael Redd makes the team. An unselfish, team player who's a sharpshooter who can come off the bench if necessary. Yeah, why would they want that? :roll1:
 
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Carlos Boozer is probably the hardest working man in the NBA right now, and is exactly what that team needs. Frankly, I don't think players should even be asked to play on more than one Olympic squad. Keeping the team young will keep it modest and hungry - you won't have that with guys like T-Mac and Jermaine O'Neal.
 
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The article says that Ben Wallace is still a possibility:

The U.S. team now includes James, Boozer, Stephon Marbury, Allen Iverson, Richard Jefferson, Shawn Marion, Amare Stoudemire and Tim Duncan. Only Duncan and Marion have extensive international experience, but no one on the roster has played in an Olympics.

Brown would like to add veterans Ben Wallace and Reggie Miller to the squad -- and perhaps a few more kids.
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...but yeah. If it came down to one of the other, I'd like to see Boozer instead of Ben. I love Big Ben's game and everything, but I'd rather see a fresh face out there.
 
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Boozer's a good choice, but I don't get why some of these other guys that dropped out were ever even on the team.

They should ask the best players to be on the team. If a guy says "I'll think about it" or "Let's wait and see what happens in the playoffs" then cross him off your list and never look back. Take the guys that say "Yes!" right away and go on down your list until you have your team.

Better still... there should be tryouts! Let them earn something. This is a privilege you spoiled frickin' brats!

**BitB steps down from soapbox**

On the other hand, the team they have now seems like they want to be there. Per ESPN:

The U.S. team now includes James, Boozer, Stephon Marbury, Allen Iverson, Richard Jefferson, Shawn Marion, Amare Stoudemire and Tim Duncan. Only Duncan and Marion have extensive international experience, but no one on the roster has played in an Olympics.
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Damn you, Carlos Boozer. Damn you.

ESPN.com news services

So much for verbal understandings.

Carlos Boozer and the Utah Jazz have agreed on a six-year, $68 million offer sheet, ESPN's David Aldridge reports, sending a crushing blow to the Cleveland Cavaliers, who made Boozer an unrestricted free agent with the belief he would re-sign with them for their mid-level exception.

Earlier Thursday, ESPN Insider Chad Ford reported that the Jazz had canceled a planned visit by the Nets' Kenyon Martin because they were preparing to make Boozer the offer to which he has now agreed.

"We just decided in was in both of our interest to go in a different direction," Jazz GM Kevin O'Connor told Ford about the Martin cancellation.

The huge offer, coming after Boozer drew interest from half a dozen teams once he hit the free-agent market, proves the Cavaliers made a significant mistake in relinquishing their contractual rights to Boozer for the upcoming season.

Boozer, recently named to the U.S. Olympic team, could have been Cleveland's next season for $695,000, but the Cavaliers did not pick up their option after, the club said, Boozer had committed to re-signing for the team's full mid-level exception -- somewhere around six years and $40 million.

Now Cleveland almost certainly cannot retain Boozer. While the Cavs have the right to match the Utah offer, they are only about $4 million under the current cap and would have to trade and/or renounce the rights to a number of players to clear enough room to sign Boozer.

According to sources, the Jazz began serious negotiations with Boozer around the Fourth of July and finished the deal Wednesday night, capping a huge offseason for Utah.
 
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One wonders if he will turn out to be the next big thing, or the next Hot Rod Williams. He played well last year, and it's a shame the Cavs can't keep him. My guess is his agent talked him into playing some Hardball, and it looks like it will pay off for him.
 
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The Cavs should go after Kenyon Martin. The press keeps saying how Kenyon will demand the maximum possible contract, but it looks like less and less teams are able to dish out that kind of money. If Kenyon would be willing to make any kind of sacrifice, why not go and play with Lebron. That would be one hell of a tandem, and he would have a rising center to help him out down low.

I'm really interested to see just how well Boozer does in Utah...
 
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What the f? First, why would the Cavs ever agree to relinquish his rights unless he was ready to sign the new contract at the exact damn time? Second, why would you go to Utah and a team that is at the beginning stages of rebuilding when you could stay with a team that is a couple of years and a couple of players away from making a serious run? Damn, the only good thing the Cavs GM has done was select LeBron, and no one is dumb enough to have screwed that pick up.
 
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