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<blockquote data-quote="rtillaree" data-source="post: 4436663" data-attributes="member: 570661">yea, Ben Wallace turned out to be a very good player, but at the time of the deal Wallace was nothing and Hill was Grant Hill, arguably the best player in all of basketball at the time, even with the ankle injury. He wasnt considered damaged goods at that time, the ankle injury was waived off as a standard injury and the Detroit medical team, the Orlando medical team and a third party Dr all agreed it would be fine. No one at that time knew that the heel bone was going to shift like it did later on. So there again, any team in the league would have made that deal at that time in order to sign Grant Hill...Detroit didn&#039;t **** Orlando, Hill was going to Orlando no matter what, Wallace and Atkins were only used as incentives for Detroit to S&amp;amp;T...so yea, Hill didn&#039;t work out, it sucked, but it happens all the time in the NBA...and Hill turned into Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis so..no big deal...um they didnt really &quot;dump&quot; much salary there holmes, they lost Arroyo&#039;s but picked up Cato&#039;s contract, who even though was expiring was still much larger than Darko, plus they would have still of been paying his rookie extension and on top of that considering that they had Darko&#039;s bird rights they could have signed him to whatever offer they wanted and not had the inflated amount count against the cap...so I fail to see where anyone got the upper hand on this so called salary raping you are claiming...agreed the first round pick turned into Stuckey, good for Detroit...not sure if Orlando would have drafted him or not at that position, for some reason Crittenton seems like more of an Orlando target...why do you care so much what the press says? i dont base anything off of that, I watch the games...it&#039;s the playoffs, teams are emotional and heated, it&#039;s not like Detroit isnt doing the same thing...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rtillaree, post: 4436663, member: 570661"] yea, Ben Wallace turned out to be a very good player, but at the time of the deal Wallace was nothing and Hill was Grant Hill, arguably the best player in all of basketball at the time, even with the ankle injury. He wasnt considered damaged goods at that time, the ankle injury was waived off as a standard injury and the Detroit medical team, the Orlando medical team and a third party Dr all agreed it would be fine. No one at that time knew that the heel bone was going to shift like it did later on. So there again, any team in the league would have made that deal at that time in order to sign Grant Hill...Detroit didn't **** Orlando, Hill was going to Orlando no matter what, Wallace and Atkins were only used as incentives for Detroit to S&T...so yea, Hill didn't work out, it sucked, but it happens all the time in the NBA...and Hill turned into Dwight Howard and Rashard Lewis so..no big deal... um they didnt really "dump" much salary there holmes, they lost Arroyo's but picked up Cato's contract, who even though was expiring was still much larger than Darko, plus they would have still of been paying his rookie extension and on top of that considering that they had Darko's bird rights they could have signed him to whatever offer they wanted and not had the inflated amount count against the cap...so I fail to see where anyone got the upper hand on this so called salary raping you are claiming... agreed the first round pick turned into Stuckey, good for Detroit...not sure if Orlando would have drafted him or not at that position, for some reason Crittenton seems like more of an Orlando target... why do you care so much what the press says? i dont base anything off of that, I watch the games...it's the playoffs, teams are emotional and heated, it's not like Detroit isnt doing the same thing... [/QUOTE]

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