Brand

Elton Brand was coming off of major knee surgery. Sure, he played fairly well in the last two weeks of last season, but who knows from here on out? He’s 29, so it’s more likely than not that his breakout year in 05 when he averaged 24.7 ppg, 10 rpg, and 2.6 apg while shooting nearly 53 percent is not going to happen again. Especially when the very next year he reverted back to his career norms, which, are great sure, but not worth handicapping the Clippers payroll flexibility for the next five years. He is, as has been the question about him his whole career, an undersized PF who has succeeded due equally to talent and sheer will power. Besides, if he took the rest of the money available like he apparently wanted (though verbalized differently), the Clippers would not have had the ability to go out and make additional moves.    

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