JWaLL Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 Four on the Wizards' radar By Mike Jones on July 5, 2009 into Outlet We're drawing close to the one-week mark in the NBA's free agency period and so far, Detroit (Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva) and Toronto (Hedo Turkoglu) made the initial big splashes. And Boston, according to Marc Spears of the Boston Globe, has reached an agreement with Rasheed Wallace, and slightly lower profiled players are getting attention. The Wizards continue to have conversations with the representatives of players, and according to a league source, they did put in an inquiry with Antonio McDyess' camp, but the asking price (which would require them to use the mid-level exception, but because of the tax would total roughly $10 million) is too high. League sources tell me that Rasho Nesterovic, Channing Frye, Jason Collins and Jamaal Magloire have all drawn interest from the Wizards. All four are unrestricted free agents, who remain on the market and are expected to have to settle for paydays in the neighborhood of the veterans minumum. Nesterovic is an 11-year veteran, who last season earned $8.4 million while averaging 6.8 points and 3.4 rebounds in 17.3 minutes a game with the Indiana Pacers. He's a solid low-post defender and average rebounder, but is a smart veteran-type player the Wizards could count on for five to 10 minutes a game. Frye, a 6-foot-11 fourth-year power forward, no longer is in the Portland Trail Blazers' plans. Last season, he earned $3.16 million and averaged just 4.2 points and 2.2 rebounds in 11.8 minutes a game. It's believed that the Wizards would rather land a center, but Frye could come at a pricetag that would be in Washington's wheelhouse. Collins' eight-year career has largely been a disappointment, but at 7-foot, 255 pounds, he definitely has the big body that could spell Brendan Haywood and JaVale McGee for a few minutes. For his career, Collins -- who earned $6.2 million last season -- has averaged 4.2 points and 4.3 rebounds in 23.4 minutes of play. Last season, he mustered 1.8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 31 games for Minnesota. Magloire is a nine-year veteran, who last season earned just under $800,000 from Miami. He appeared in 55 games for the Heat during the 2008-09 campaign, averaging 2.9 points and 4.0 rebounds in 12.9 minutes Magloire's problem for much of his career has been health. But if the Wizards are looking for a 5- to 10-minute player to give a foul, he's a low-cost/low-risk option. As stated before in the last week, the Wizards aren't rushing to make a signing, as they hope to sit back and see who the best available candidates are left standing. One player the Wizards are not even considering, however, is Stephon Marbury. Despite reports that Washington is a favorite to land the guard, who wants a reunion with Flip Saunders, I'm told the interest is only one-sided, and Washington isn't considering adding any more guards to what is an already crowded back court. http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/outlet/2009/jul/05/four-on-the-wizards-radar/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueDevil Posted July 6, 2009 Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 out of those 4, rasho seems to be the best fit as he can teach washingtons young bigs how to play the game. Hes always been a solid player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWaLL Posted July 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2009 I'm not impressed with any of those, and don't see any of them making a solid impact on our team, but if I had to choose I'd probably go with Rasho or Frye. I think Jason Collins is just terrible and Magloire will most likely get hurt in the first few weeks of the season and be out probably the remainder of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest N4S Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 out of those 4, rasho seems to be the best fit as he can teach washingtons young bigs how to play the game. Hes always been a solid player Rasho is a good player? lol I think I'd rather have someone like Dalembert teaching b4 this dude. Which is sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dig Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 rasho would be ok depth. id prefer frye personally. hes still relatively young and never really got much opportunity in portland. collins and magloire do nothing for me at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dig Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 ESPN Insider says that the Wiz are interested in Wilcox. I'm a hardcore Terp fan so I would be optimistic if we brought him in. If we could get the Wilcox that put up 13 and 9 in Seattle than I'd be real happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWaLL Posted July 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 ESPN Insider says that the Wiz are interested in Wilcox. I'm a hardcore Terp fan so I would be optimistic if we brought him in. If we could get the Wilcox that put up 13 and 9 in Seattle than I'd be real happy. Haha I was a Terps fan too (until I got rejected by Maryland). As a kid I watched Wilcox play in college. I would much rather have him over any of the above mentioned players. Very athlietic and energetic, can grab rebounds fairly well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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