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Originally Posted by wireframe
Columbus is paying half of Quick's salary ($2.9M, prorated over the remainder of the season) in exchange for Hutchingson and a 7th. Why in the world would they do that? Hutchinson is just a replacement backup and whoever you'd draft with a 7th was probably going to be available as a free agent an hour later.
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Obviously Quick didn't want to go to Columbus, and with his stats, they weren't going to get anything of value. Why not treat the player well? For a team like Columbus has trouble drawing players, that can only help.