Originally Posted by
PELICANSFAN
You are the one who is trying to instill hindsight. He was a fringe NBA player who was already signed on a league minimum deal. Miller was signed to the 2 year/$14 million deal to make him a trade chip that season. I guess we could have cut Wood and re-signed him to that deal instead of Miller, but do not recall the timing of his demand to be released. He did not feel he was going to get any playing time and he wanted to go somewhere of his choosing to show his worth. If he would have agreed to be released and re-sign that deal, he would have gotten $7 million guaranteed (the 2nd year was non-guaranteed) and been traded wherever the Pelicans chose. His concern was that with the Pels, he would not leave the bench much. It is all pretty irrelevant since the team was concerned about his character and probably did not want to invest in him anyway.