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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I'm not exact on the timing but I think we got Hamilton before the trade talks about Richards went poof. The thing for me is I couldn't understand why we were considering Richards at any time under any conditions but we were.
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Prior to landing Hamilton, we were still a rebuilding team that overachieved. There was some logic to taking a bad contract to get a good asset - though Richards is not the kind of bad contract I wanted given the term and cost he had remaining.
Hamilton changed the scenario though. As soon as Don Sweeney lost his marbles, taking on Richards' contract was no longer a viable option for us as our situation change considerably.