ClipsNation seems to be ecstatic (shock!) over the Marcus Camby coup. One of the fans there pulls out this quote from Camby's agent Rick Kaplan, as recorded by the Rocky Mountain News.[T]he Nets, without room under the salary cap, were not able to bid low enough to get him in a salary-cap dump.When we joke about all these teams angling for cap space in 2010, even though they have no shot at LeBron, Wade, Bosh or Amare, keep in mind how valuable nothing can be. Nothing can allow to get something for nothing, while something just prevents you from easily getting something else.
"Kiki really wanted Marcus," said Camby's agent, Rick Kaplan, referring to New Jersey general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, the general manager in Denver when the Nuggets traded for Camby in June 2002. "But he didn't have enough of nothing to give."
It's the new NBA, people, where cap space has tremendous upside potential and on-court performance is a deep, deep second to fiscal impact in importance. (And let not this fine occasion pass without noting the Wizards got more for the rights to pay Juan Carlos Navarro last summer than Denver got for Marcus Flippin' Camby.)
