WizBlog RSS FeedREPORT: DESHAWN, WIZARDS AGREE TO TERMS
Ivan Carter (Washington Post) and John Mitchell (Washington Times) have reported that the Wizards and DeShawn Stevenson have agreed in principle to a contract.
“DeShawn is excited to be back,” said Stevenson rep Mark Bartelstein to Carter. “He appreciated the way Ernie Grunfeld and the Wizards gave him an opportunity to come in and play last year and he’s looking forward to the future.”
Once anything official comes through the pipelines I’ll be sure to post it. In the meantime, feel free to head to the comments section and post your thoughts.
July 14th, 2007 at 1:25 AM
f*ck
ok kidding it’s not that bad. Maybe ernie knows why he had to go after deshawn first before securing the other pieces
July 14th, 2007 at 1:28 AM
I couldnt watch the game live, people (and by people I mean my girl roommates) wanted to watch harry potter or napoleon dynamite. Now i’m scouring the web to see where it is on nba tv. I wish they did reruns so I didnt have to watch it on the computer sometimes the games are choppy. Glad pech had a good game I always thought he had it in him. I see we lost the endgame though were the summer league big three in the game at that point or are we testing the rest of the roster (which is the point of summer league)
July 14th, 2007 at 1:41 AM
Its not a bad deal…
3.7mil per…
I wonder if its back loaded.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:55 AM
Come on it’s good from our side, we didn’t break the bank!! When you see what some GMs (ORLANDO!!) can do you’re pretty happy ot have Ernie here!! Let’s wait for the official pictures of the signing (since Thibodeau want proof lol) and for the signing of my boy Dray!
July 14th, 2007 at 3:57 AM
LG… since the 3.7 for Mr. Stevenson, it may be a bit hard to also sign Mr. Blatche. If no other teams sign him to an offer sheet there is hope. I wouldn’t count on that though. I feel this offer was slightly high. I hope EG has a plan. I’d hate to lose Mr. Blatche. TM or WD… is there anything that gives us the advantage with Mr. Blatche since he is our player other than the ability to match other offers?
July 14th, 2007 at 4:57 AM
I can’t find the wizards-houston game anyone seen it anywhere?
July 14th, 2007 at 8:25 AM
WizDom - I don’t think you can backload since raises are only limited to 8% (if I understood that one completely). You CAN frontload if you’re far enough under the cap.
July 14th, 2007 at 8:48 AM
Glad he is back, keeps the main team together. It’s nice to see the Wiz doing well each year, it wasn’t that long ago we were still in the lottery.
If Enie now can trade Thomas and Navarro and get something good in return then that will set us for keeping Gil staying next year. With the the 3 kids from this draft and Blatch coming up, we’ll be only a center away.
July 14th, 2007 at 10:09 AM
If it’s $15m/4 years, the first year can be as low as $3.33m. That leaves a fair amount of room in the mid-level, not to mention some other options as well. We should be able to sign Blatche, Booth, McGuire, Miles, Visser & Hall — if that’s the direction we want to go.
If EG *does* manage to trade the rights to JCN along w/ Etan Thomas, depending on what we take back the core should be looking pretty good. If the deal were to be w/ Memphis, however, I don’t know whom we’d want off their roster (Gasol obviously not included, as he is the reason they trade for jcn’s rights).
July 14th, 2007 at 10:22 AM
did u all not see how terrible he played in the playoffs personally id take nick young over deshawn neday of the week nd there is still one problem ernie nd the wiz still need to address nd thats the terrible big men on this squad, look right now they are probably one of the top teams in the east, but if they really wanna contend for a title they need a big man like chris wilcox, or even jermaine oneal, get us a solid big man ernie, nd ill book my tickets for playoffs nd even the finals who knows
July 14th, 2007 at 10:33 AM
One thing I notice in Ivan’s story is the use of the 1.9M bi-annual exception on Booth. The team could actually offer him the league minimum - since he’s an 8 year vet, he would automatically earn 1.1M using the minimum salary scale. Just a thought…
July 14th, 2007 at 10:36 AM
wizards.com,
Can you answer this question for me? Everyone is saying that now DS is signed we don’t have enough MLE left to sign JCN. But wouldn’t JCN be a rookie and goes by the rookie salary schedule instead of MLE which is for free agent?
Thanks!
July 14th, 2007 at 10:59 AM
Great!!! I thought I heard somethin like that last night but I was half sleep.(Thought I was dreaming) Looks like he took the deal 18 mil isnt that bad, but it was for us , concidering the situation we were in. Deshawn is a good fit & for the first time in 3 years the wiz have managed to keep our most devensive minded player..
July 14th, 2007 at 11:10 AM
3 yrs 15 mil is good ..at least he knows the plays and his role on the team. Since Nick Young is not ready for the spot, DS could give us good 25-30 mins a game.
July 14th, 2007 at 11:16 AM
wht sizn him now!!! andray needed to sizned first!!!! jcn would be a better choice than ds, he fades away when you need him , if thats the case we should keep haynes also thay are the same can of players, now jcn going to another team and he will bwe a all star ! like andray if we don,t sizn him like what are management thinkig !! be for real need help reach out to your fans we see more than most people …
July 14th, 2007 at 11:58 AM
It was GREAT! Nothing else, we got him for good money, he’s worth it… and we CAN still sign Blatche, we can match any offer for him, if we will is another thing, but I think he will be back, and JCN goes under rookie contract, but we would trade his rights with Thomas, and I love that idea, cause JCN generates good value, best player in the world outside the NBA. if he joins us that’s sweet to.
But Memphis is signing Darko so that’s what we could get there… and Darko has tremendous amount of potential, and he is solid now, it is a gamble though and I’m not sure about it. But lots of teams inquired about JCN so let’s not rush anything.
July 14th, 2007 at 12:01 PM
and if we want Booth then please use the minimum, not the 1.9 exeption, we can get a decent veteran FA with almost 2 mill, Booth is nothing more then a locker room influence for us, we get the same from Antawn amonst others… and please part with Craig Ehlo II (Michael Ruffin), I don’t want him at all…
from the SL I want Young, Pech, McGuire and at the most Hall and Miles, but nobody else…
July 14th, 2007 at 12:17 PM
sorry I mean 4yrs 15 mil
July 14th, 2007 at 1:20 PM
im happy hes back. his deal is pretty good but wat was the first one he turned down?
July 14th, 2007 at 4:55 PM
They offered 3yrs 9 mil - then 4 yrs 12 mil .. He really wanted a deal for 4yrs 18 mil. but I guess they wasnt havin that so they came up with 4yrs 15 mil , I guess thats not so bad . 18 mil probally would have hurt us but we were lucky casue at 15 mil the wiz offered him more money than any other team.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:31 PM
I think Jermaine O’Neal would be a perfect fit for this team I would like to see Ernie package Thomas, Daniels, Haywood, JCN and we will be off for a championship! For the other person who asked about JCN being a rookie salary only applies to first round draft picks, so 2nd rounders can be signed at any level. I do believe that JCN shouldn’t make a more than a 1-2 million because he is just starting like a rookie and he should have to prove he can play at this level with guys who are much bigger, stronger, and faster. The olympics is okay for a game or two but playing in the NBA over 82 games is a whole different story. I still think the best thing for the Wiz is to trade JCN/Daniels to the Griz and get Mike Conley as an even trade. The Griz get a point guard and shooting guard plus it will make paul happy.
Go Wiz
July 14th, 2007 at 9:41 PM
I’m glad things worked out. I like Stevenson. Though I thought him trying to get 18 million was farfetched. But 4 years..15 million isn’t too bad..
“For ballin in the phone number dial area code (034) Arenas, Butler& Jamison”
July 14th, 2007 at 9:43 PM
The only problem with DSs contract is that it virutally guarantees JCN won’t be here
July 15th, 2007 at 12:52 AM
Thanks Tom… I feel much better now.
With Mr. Arenas and after drafting Mr. Young, not to mention, DMac being such a surprise (except to Tom.. he knew draft night the kind of player we had… I’m still impressed) Mr. Navarro became a very good bargaining chip. The question is now… Do we want Darko? If we don’t multiple teams are going to have to be involved. That doesn’t bode well for our “core” players. I’d like to see the “big three” stay together, but, something tells me we are going to lose one of them. That being said, I doubt Mr. Arenas or Mr. Butler are going anywhere. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Mr. Navarro, Mr. Jamison (for salary reasons), Mr. Thomas (again salary reasons) and Mr. Haywood packaged together to multiple teams. After all you don’t want the “rock em sock em centers” on the same team again lol. Sorry I couldn’t resist that. But those are the players I see in the Mix. We will see how badly Memphis wants Mr. Navarro.
Mr. Stevenson’s signing gives us stability. Something we would not have had at first with Mr. Navarro. I see this as a chance for EG to really Shine. Given what Tom said earlier about being able to keep Blatche with things just status quo… I’m getting kinda excited about what might be around the corner?
July 15th, 2007 at 1:13 AM
Another CRAZY thought, why don’t the Wiz/EG go back to the Lakers and make another steal and package Stevenson, Daniels, Thomas, JCN for Kobe. I know that sounds CRAZY but so was Kwame for Caron!
July 15th, 2007 at 2:51 AM
Gilbert and Kobe on the same team.. I don’t think so lol
July 15th, 2007 at 3:18 PM
No Memphis really is *not* going to give us Mike Conley for the rights to jcn and AD. If you ran the Grizzlies, would *you* make that trade? No, I didn’t think so.
Stevenson’s $$ is not a lot in this league. I suppose I might have made sure I had Blatche before doing a deal with DS, but obviously Ernie knows a lot more than I do.
Now what are the open questions left to settle beyond Blatche (I can’t imagine them giving him up)? Sign Booth and McGuire.
Then what? Bring Hall, Miles and Visser to camp along w/ Taylor (maybe), and see what happens.
Anything beyond this requires a trade — hopefully packaging JCN’s rights w/ Etan.
We’re almost at $64m right now — I see us having to edge into luxury tax territory.
July 15th, 2007 at 3:21 PM
Right now the trade bait we have consists of JCN’s rights, AD (if we think we have someone good enough to replace him), and one of the centers.
AD needs to play 20-25 minutes a night to be effective; we don’t really have those minutes for him. But he would have excellent value on a number of teams.
Etan and Brendan obviously have trouble co-existing — one of them has to go.
We don’t have $$ to sign JCN. If we can’t trade his rights to a team that does, then he’ll stay in Europe. Of course, we could still trade his rights, even if he then plays another year for Barca.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:18 PM
The blog is eating my comments, Eric.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Will Dallas throw the full mid-level at Andray? Ivan is saying that it might happen. Would Ernie match that big an offer — I don’t know. I don’t know if I would either.
The Mavs have $82m committed in salaries to 12 players. They also have an option to retain Pops Mensah-Bonsu at $700k, they seem to want to resign Stackhouse, and they have a kid Juan Jose Barea who is *tearing up* the summer league at point guard.
*Maybe* they’ll throw a huge offer at Andray, but I think they’d be nuts to do it.
July 15th, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Any chance we can get Kurt Thomas and DJ Strawberry from Pheomix for Navarro and Etan?
July 15th, 2007 at 11:04 PM
Trade JCN and AD for Mike Comley Jr
July 15th, 2007 at 11:05 PM
*Mike Conley Jr*
July 15th, 2007 at 11:07 PM
This allows us to clear 5.?? in cap space *hint* sign Blatche …etc.
July 15th, 2007 at 11:09 PM
can we imagine Daniel Snyder buying the Wizards we would be like the Knicks EXCEPT we would win Championships all we need is a center
July 15th, 2007 at 11:44 PM
Sorry TM - I have no idea why it does that from time to time. It’s only supposed to moderate comments from first-time posters. WordPress glitch I guess - I’ll have someone take a look-see.
July 15th, 2007 at 11:46 PM
wiz-skins - it doesn’t work that way - even if you had a limitless pocket you’ll have to play by the cap rules. Teams who are deep in the hole (eg NYK) are dealing with past seasons of high salaries and long term contracts that add up, particularly when players are bought out (ie. Jalen Rose, Allen Houston, etc).
July 16th, 2007 at 1:25 AM
i am so glad deshawn is resigned! the pg, sg, and sf positions are solid as long as they sign dominic now we need to focus on the pf and center positions! but hear is the big deal…….. we went from a 6 man rotation, GA,DS,CB,AJ, Etan, AD to a solid 9, AJ,DS,AD,ET,CB,GA, nick, the foreign guym and dominic. lol. yes improvement! we are definitely third round for sure, one more big piece specifically a big man who can score and defend. defense is the priority. i believe dominic is our lebron stopper, hell if they did research they would know that there was many nights in orlando when deshawn locked up james. but any go wiz! welcome back deshawn. gil needs an extension and a less quirkiness. be more of a leader this year gil, speak up.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:59 AM
I’m happy that DeShawn will be a Wizard for a while longer. Although he had some off nights offensively, his defense has never changed. I think this was a good deal.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:23 AM
Please, guys, keep this in mind — there is *nothing* you can do to clear cap space except wait for the contracts to run out. Nothing. If you trade a player, you have to take back one or more players whose salaries are about equal to the guy you traded. No exceptions.
*Rights* to a player — e.g. to JCN — don’t have $$ requirements, however. That’s why we can package jcn’s rights with Etan’s salary to make it more attractive.
The second thing to realize is that there are *no* bargains out there — sometimes a trade works well, sometimes it doesn’t. To get rid of someone we don’t want, we’ll wind up taking someone that someone else doesn’t want!
For example, there’s some talk about jcn’s rights and Etan going to Memphis; we’d have to take back Stromile Swift, whom they don’t want. We don’t really want Stromile, but that’s the way the deal would probably work.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:56 AM
well we shouldnt trade JCN and wait out if a team signs Andray Blatche to a hideous contract that the Wizards would match then we can sign JCN for about the same money as Blatche
July 16th, 2007 at 9:09 AM
1 thing AD did for us last season that Gil would never be able to do as well was; run the team. This guy in the absence of #0 was a dime machine. Tho it was doubtful he could maintain that productivity a whole 82 games..It still has yet to be seen. AD was pullin out anywhere from 8-15 dimes a game consistantly.. The only other guy to do so was Nash. We all know there is no comparing the 2 but facts are facts. AD might be attractive to other teams but what about us????
Point is …. If Gil isnt ready or goes down again ,,or whatever the case might be ,AD is the guy we need .. if not who else is on the roster ?? What other guy is available to us that could sucessfully run our team in the absence of an allstar??????????????????????????
July 16th, 2007 at 9:15 AM
I like the signing of DS. This allows us to keep the starting lineup together. I gotta tell you, I would much rather trade JCN and keep Blatche, if it comes to that. Blatche’s size, skills and youth just cannot be matched.
I say trade Navarro and sign Andray.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:25 AM
So… if we were to trade Mr. Jamison it doesn’t mean his 16M salary would come off our books? This is were I get really confused lol.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:32 AM
if we were to trade jamison then his salary would get off our books but we would be taking on a contract or two of similar value so the salary on our team would not change much.
as for blatche, I am starting to think that that there is a growing possibility that blatche will sign elsewhere. We have an influx of forwards so he might not like the possibility of not having that much playing time and will have to compete for it. Also, if a team like dallas is willing to give him the full midlevel exception, hell take it in a heartbeat and we will probably not match it.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:45 AM
exactly what i said steveu…we have to wait and not trade JCN….if we wait and see if Blatche has any offers then we can see if it is to much money as the full MLE is or if something the Wizards can match 3 mil maybe….but if he does get a full MLE from Dalas which is interested in him then we still have JCN and we can sign him….with the money we wouldnt use on Blatche…it is believed he wants a 4 year 12 mil contract!!!..according to a spainsh newspaper….well and really thinking of it i am more excited about DMac than Blatche… hope there is still a big trade coming up including AD and Jamison…and as of AD i would mind replacing him with JCN or Aaron Miles
July 16th, 2007 at 9:58 AM
and if we manage to keep blatch this year, then i think jamison wont be resigned unless he takes a HUGE paycut like less than 8 mil
July 16th, 2007 at 10:10 AM
we all know he will take a pay cut he coule be up for 8 to 12 mil a year…but if we do manage to keep Blatche…. then trade JCN for Mike Conley Jr. if not then send him back to Spain for one more year until we get a good offer
July 16th, 2007 at 10:11 AM
another thought we could trade JCN for a 1st Round top 5 or 10 Protected pick then we would be in for Roy Hibbert a good center who is 7′ 3″ this would be great for us
July 16th, 2007 at 10:18 AM
i believe Roy Hibbert could come in and start right away….he would be great he would be a good center maybe 14 ppg 10-11 rpg and 2-3 bpg that would be great for us
08/09 Line-Up
Gilbert Arenas, Antoinio Daniels, Aaron Miles
Nick Young, DeShawn Stevenson,
Caron Butler, Dominic McGuire, Darius Songaila
Antwan Jamison, Blatche/O-Pech
Roy Hibbert, Brendan Haywood, Etan Thomas
we could even do JCN + 2nd Round Draft Pick for 1st Round Top 5 -10 Proctected
That would leave us with 2 1st Round Draft Picks…we could get a defensive-minded SG
July 16th, 2007 at 10:21 AM
skins- get off of conley. we wont get him. they wont give him up. we dont need him (unless we trade AD but i dont see that happening). the only trade i think will happen is JCN + haywood/etan for a big. if that doesnt happen JCN goes back to spain and the roster will be as is now with some summer league players and maybe blatche, unless eg suckers another gm.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:06 AM
Nobody cares about team chemistry.. Unless yall havent noticed we have 1 ! UNDERSTAND IT 1 point guard on our team!!! We have 8 FOWARDS????? Why bring in another 2 and make him play out of posistion..+Conley hasnt signed yet but hes still gonna make around 3 mil but it will increase each year. So trading for him is stupid !!
July 16th, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Haywood & Etan screw up team chemistry so I agree 1 of them has to go.. Niether is consistant but niether has ever logged 30 or more minutes on a consistant basis. I believe when 1 is gone the other will step up.
July 16th, 2007 at 12:03 PM
but once again
dont you believe Roy Hibbert could come in and start right away….he would be great he would be a good center maybe 14 ppg 10-11 rpg and 2-3 bpg that would be great for us
08/09 Line-Up
Gilbert Arenas, Antoinio Daniels, Aaron Miles
Nick Young, DeShawn Stevenson,
Caron Butler, Dominic McGuire, Darius Songaila
Antwan Jamison, Blatche/O-Pech
Roy Hibbert, Brendan Haywood, Etan Thomas
we could even do JCN + 2nd Round Draft Pick for 1st Round Top 5 -10 Proctected
That would leave us with 2 1st Round Draft Picks…we could get a defensive-minded SG
July 16th, 2007 at 1:30 PM
first of all i dont think that trade will ever happen, but I believe hibbert could probably start right away but he isnt that much better than what we have now. he is very unathletic and slow and has almost reached his ceiling. but if we did happen to get a top 10 pick, I would look at the guy from stanford robin lopez or devon hardin before i pick hibbert. THey are both athletic, good defenders, and have good upside. The guy i wanted to come out this year so we could pick him was hasheem thabeet, hes long (7′3) athletic, good shotblocker, with tremendous upside, if he can get an offesive game, and probably would have been available at 16 so i think he is a guy to look at next year.
July 16th, 2007 at 2:14 PM
In this leauge you have 2 be able to deal with what comes at you.. If we play a defensive team like chicago,spurs or detroit they might not let us run at that fast tempo like we want. Thats when u need a big guy like Roy down there so u can slow it down & run the offense through him. It would be nice and I thiught of that a while back but I doubt we would get that lucky.. lets hope hes not another Ramos
July 16th, 2007 at 2:19 PM
to start off .. i think getting back Deshawn Stevenson was a good signing for the Wizards .. the Wizards can score with anyone in this league .. but they need a good perimeter defender .. and lets face it .. no one else can play any defense on this team .. i looked back last year and was disappointed in losing Jared Jeffries .. but Stevenson is quicker and smarter and .. they signed him for much less than Jeffries .. he knows his role on this team .. and hes a great fit .. 2nd .. Navarro .. supposedly one of the best players in Europe .. kinda sucks we dont get to see him play with the Wizards .. but who knows .. maybe he might be able to stay .. and to the guy who likes Blatche over Stevenson .. just look at our lineup .. again .. Blatche shows potential but Deshawn is the player that will gve the Wizards more versatitlity on offense and defense .. and to let everyone know .. this is a contract year for Antawn Jamison .. who knows .. maybe Ernie Grunfeld may pull a trigger on a trade this year that will involve him .. hes maybe 15 or 16 mill in the last year of his contract .. and that will most definetly slice in half atleast if he resigns with the team after this year .. and then if you trade Haywood and/or Etan Thomas .. you dump 9 million more off the cap .. that leaves you with 18 million .. or they might let Jamison leave .. thats 25 mill dumped .. then they can go out and get a solid big man who can consistenly rebound .. block shots and get the 2nd chance points this team needs .. yea Jermaine O’Neal is good .. but hes jus tnot a good fit .. this team strives on running the break and their points come more from cutting using backdoors and from 3 pointers .. this team needs an inside presence that will do the rugged things like take up space and rebound and block shots .. [Jamal Magloire ?] .. but bottom line is for next offseason .. Gilbert will stay with the team .. even if they go over the luxury tax .. im pretty sure Abe Polin and Ernie Grunfeld will do anything to keep Gilbert here ..
July 16th, 2007 at 4:21 PM
i saw someone say that they like a potential swap of JCN’s rights and Etan Thomas to Memphis for Stromile Swift. Not sure what Swift’s contract is, but I bet it is more attractive than Thomas’ and will free up more cap room to sign Blatche. Is there any chance that the Grizzlies will give up Darko Milicic instead? If we send Haywood instead of Thomas? Can we cut Thomas and dump his salary?
July 16th, 2007 at 9:26 PM
I’m glad we got Stevenson back, although it seems to me we overpaid a bit. EG must have thought he was competing with others for Stevenson. I’d certainly think he’s a better fit than Navarro for us. I’m anxious to see exactly how much his first year salary is.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Signing Stevenson was the right move and for a 4 year 15 million contract I think the Wizards got a fair contract. We can’t clear 25 million by trading Jamison and Thomas. If we trade Jamison we may be able to save about 2-3 million, but no 25 million. Just get Blatche, McGuire, and Miles under contract and call it a successful summer. Possibly trade JCN for any first round pick it can get for next season. Keep Etan and Haywood unless something beautiful comes along.
July 17th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Stromile Swift has 2 years left on his contract (ET has 3 years). The $$s are close enough. Not that we need Stromile Swift. Or that we know that he and Brendan would get along.
July 17th, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Hey Tom what about signing Chris Mihm instead of Calvin Booth?
I think the Princeton O would be a good fit for Chris.
Isn’t he a free agent?
July 17th, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Mihm is a free agent (and the best out there, I think) but he would cost more than the $1.1 (minimum for an 8 yr vet) we would have to pay Booth. And as of now I figure we’re already in the luxury tax zone.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:25 AM
We need to trade JCN’s rights to the Heat for Udonis Haslem, if not then we are gonna have to keep JCN and have him come off the bench and the the Wizards are gonnna avg 135pp next year
July 18th, 2007 at 11:39 AM
We’re definitely flirting with luxury tax territory — at $64m for 10 guys w/ Stevenson and will sign Booth, McGuire and e.g. Miles for @ another $2m. That’s only 13 guys.
Maybe Hall makes the team, and we find another guard among guys who went undrafted?
July 18th, 2007 at 11:40 AM
Or maybe they bring back Mason? I hope not.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:28 PM
Holy moly, I forgot Andray! We’re into tax-land with him and Booth I’m sure. then add mcguire, miles and whoever is #15. They’re all cheap, but they’ll all cost us double because of the tax! Crazy.