comes with a hefty luxury tax bill, though. The owner took a shot building his team around Melo, AI, and Camby. They went to the playoffs a couple times. But with the way the West was looking, this didn’t look like a championship team, especially with Camby and AI getting older. I’m guessing the owner didn’t want to pay an extra $13M or whatever just to have another low playoff seed; he’d rather restart the rebuilding process so he can take advantage of Melo’s prime, Kleiza’s prime, Nene’s possible health, and maybe even JR Smith.

They know they can’t compete in the West this year. So they took on a player that will probably help them give up less points per game and help out.

They have Baron, E. Gordon/Mobley, Thornton, Camby, and Kaman.
Mobley, Camby and Tim Thomas come off the books in 2010.
They’ve set themselves up at least to make a run at a big FA come 2010; better than the Knicks and Nets it seems.

Camby at 8 mil a year for 2 year is much easier to swallow than Wallace at 13-14 mil a year for 4 years.

1) as fundamentallysound said the problem wasn’t the player but the contract
2) Ben Wallace didn’t played well but neither did any of the Bulls. I still think the major problem wasn’t Big Ben but crazy Scott Skiles. I would have have waited to see him with a new coach than making the Cavs trade
3) I would rather see Paxson taking this kind of risks than take the safe route of eternal rebuilding
4) You sould always be careful if you hire a guy who is leaving a team in championship contention for a building one for money. He did what was right for him but the Bulls should no better that was kind of a retirement move of his part

I dont know how bad they can really be. They will be way better than anything Denver was. BD was OK at times when inspired. At 2 guard Mobley is not horrible. He is strong and can post smaller guards at times allowing the offense to run through him. Eric Gordon I am assuming will play more with Brevin Knight, Think PG version of Larry Hughes in how he plays D, its just since he is a point guard his gambles are further away from the basket and dont cause as much trouble, but sometimes those gambles kill the team. They are also looking at re signing Q Ross who can play D. He cant score, but he can guard people. Al T will get better, usually players from rookie to sophomore year improve most on defense. Dont believe me, watch the Rookie Sophomore game, so he will be ok. K Man is mobile for a man his size, I watched him play Dallas and he guarded Nowitzki and was effective against him. Camby is an above average defender at worse…I think he is great, but it can be argued he is just above average, That team is not too bad defensively.