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Originally Posted by Parallex
I'd gladly take a 3rd or 4th round pick for 20 games worth of everything that Mike Cammellari provides in a season where missing the playoffs is a foregone conclusion... On a rebuilding team you either ink an extention before the deadline or you exchange that asset in the best deal to be had.
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I feel the same way. They were meaningless games. You get what you can.
BUT this wasn't exactly the situation was it? Burke had hopes of re-signing Cammalleri. What Burke misjudged was his ability to sign Cammalleri, which should have been clear to him. Considering that Cammalleri got 5 years at $5M a season, I think Burke seriously misjudged Cammalleri's value on the open market and Cammalleri's penchant for going to the highest bidder. Cammalleri is a very difficult man to re-sign. The Kings couldn't re-sign him, we couldn't re-sign him (twice), and Burke got outbid twice.
I think the value for Cammalleri simply wasn't there because teams that wanted Cammalleri were in the Kesler sweepstakes and I guess Burke didn't want to tarnish his reputation by trading Cammalleri for what Burke considers to be terrible deals.