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The NBA will soon announce the re-scheduled date on Saturday's ATL-WASH game. It will now be played Thursday, March 11 at 7 pm.

Arthur Triche's, Atlanta's head PR man.

UPDATE: As NBA.com John Schumann points out, this means the Wizards are playing three straight nights, which is kind of BS.

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Why the Wizards can afford to wait on trading Caron Butler

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There are several reasons for wanting to move Caron Butler ASAP, even before Antawn Jamison.  Unlike Jamison, Butler has been a really poor fit for Flip Saunders' offense and hasn't really tried hard enough to fit in.  Unlike Jamison, Butler is often playing like he wants to be elsewhere.  Unlike Jamison, Butler has been consistently unproductive this season.  Unlike Jamison, Butler has been on a clear downward trend since his career year in 2008.  Unlike with Jamison, there have been clear complaints about Butler's attitude behind the scenes (though we do need to consider the source of said complaints).  

All these reasons make sense in a vacuum.  But this isn't a vacuum.  This is 2010, and drastic financial changes are on the way.  The NBA landscape after 2011 will look very different than it does right now.  Contracts will be much smaller and likely much shorter.  Cap exceptions could be a thing of the past.  Guys with long-term deals past 2011 that are properly paid now could be dramatically overpaid in the future.  

For a rebuilding team like the Wizards, this means cutting out all contracts past 2011 to preserve cap flexibility when the dust settles should be paramount.  So why is it that the Wizards are demanding more than cap relief for their contract past 2011, while sounding like they'll settle for luxury tax relief for the player whose contract expires before the new CBA?

Yeah, I don't get it either 

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The Wizards' desire to move Butler has only increased in recent days, since they found out they will indeed get some cap relief from the NBA this season after losing Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton to suspension for the rest of the season. Washington's cap number will be reduced almost $4 million, according to sources -- pro-rated amounts of the remainder of Arenas's $16.1 million and Crittenton's $1.47 million salaries -- taking its cap number to a little more than $74 million. The cap threshhold is $69.9 million, meaning Washington could avoid paying tax if it can pare another $4 to $5 million in salaries off its books.

That means Butler, though I suspect the Wizards will ask inquiring teams to remove Mike James and/or DeShawn Stevenson from their payroll as well.

Butler winding up somewhere in Texas is most likely, with Washington probably deciding between Dallas' and Houston's competing offers before next week's All-Star Game. The Wizards are determined to get a young player back, though, and the Mavericks' only non-geezer is rookie guard Rod Beaubois -- while Houston has a young guard like Kyle Lowry and an expiring big man contract in forward Luis Scola to pair with McGrady's $22 million expiring deal.

David Aldridge. He also says Portland is interested in Butler and that the Wizards aren't looking to move Jamison and Haywood right now.

I'll have more later on why moving Butler before Jamison is a misguided strategy.

about 11 hours ago Bullets-forever_4458_tiny Mike Prada 5 comments 0 recs

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Keys to the Palace: A magical ending to an otherwise bad week

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A close loss to Celtics, a big loss to the Knicks, and a close win over Orlando gave Wizards fans a little bit of everything to chew on last week.  Other than Brendan Haywood, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, no one provided consistently strong performances throughout the week, making this week's decisions on who enters the palace that much more difficult.  

 

Andray Blatche

Andray was one of the few bright spots in against the Knicks, scoring 14 points on 7-10 shooting.  During the rest of the week, he played solidly, though you would like him to pull down more than 10 rebounds in 60 minutes of playing time.

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Earl Boykins

After taking Randy Foye's minutes against Boston, Earl tailed off the rest of the week.  Dwight Howard's emphatic block summed up his performance for the last two games of the week.


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Caron Butler

Fun fact: Daggers can be used to pick the lock to get inside the palace.

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It's natural to compare the gun situation to the brawl at the Palace, but in case you wanted to draw parallels between the two, Indy Cornrows, SB Nation's Pacers blog, reminds us that they had a lot more go wrong.

(Though we are seeing the whole "other DC-area team rise up and take fans" phenomenon with the Caps already)

about 13 hours ago Bullets-forever_4458_tiny Mike Prada 0 comments 0 recs

Super Bowl Open Thread

Since we're all going to be watching anyway, let's discuss it here.

Also, check out the SBNation.com open thread here. 

I have New Orleans winning -- I think they aren't getting any respect and the Colts are really vulnerable this year (lots of close wins, Freeney injury, easy schedule in playoffs, etc).  Jake, I'm sure, has the Colts, because he's a Colts fan.

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Simple poll: Who needs to get moved first

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I've already talked about Antawn Jamison, and I'll have more on Caron Butler soon (hopefully by later today), but to pass the time between the two, a simple poll. 

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Which player needs to be traded first?

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