※ [本文轉錄自 NBA 看板] 作者: bigbrother (台灣booth－田疊) 看板: NBA 標題: [外電] Booth要去七六人 時間: Tue Sep 11 11:28:05 2007 Booth Bounces The Calvin Booth Era has come to an end. The lanky lefty has left the Verizon Center, meaning that we may never get to see another image this brilliant again. The 6-foot-11 Booth has agreed to terms with the Philadelphia 76ers, after spending the past two years playing for Washington while cashing big checks from the Milwaukee Bucks. Booth was one of those infamous luxury tax amnesty cuts from the summer of the 2005, and he came back to Washington (the team that drafted him in 1999) after the Bucks decided to cut him and save $13 million in salary. His time here was spent mostly on the bench, but he did get three starts, two of which permanently soured the relationship between Eddie Jordan and Brendan Haywood. Remember, Booth was just the center that Jordan decided to call on when he benched Haywood and Antawn Jamison for two games in January 2006. Jordan apparently liked seeing Booth on the floor with Michael Ruffin at practice one day and you know the rest. Eddie called Antawn to tell him about the change, but forgot to reach out to Brendan Todd. "I guess I wasn't important enough on this team to have him call me," Haywood said back then. I know Eddie and Brendan have had several issues since - and I realize it's a bit of a stretch to link Booth with that (especially since Eddie would've probably put Gheorghe Muresan in that position if he could) but I thought it was an interesting footnote. Since I wasn't around the team much, I don't have many Calvin Booth stories to share. I just know that he was playing online poker one day, which sparked Gilbert Arenas's classic "I'm Not Quirky" rant. I also know that his best game as a Wizard came at the expense of the Bucks. On April Fool's Day - the day the Wizards season basically came to an end because Caron Butler broke his hand - Booth had 11 points and 11 rebounds. (Ironically, Booth got big minutes because Jordan decided to bench Haywood for the rest of the season starting that night). Antonio Daniels had a great line about Booth's game against the Bucks. "Calvin Booth can only do what Calvin Booth does. That's what Calvin Booth did," he said I asked Calvin if he felt guilty about going off on a team that was paying him $6.6 million last year. "I'm past that. I was only here two months, literally," said Booth, who joined Milwuakee in a deadline deal that sent Keith Van Horn (remember him?) to Dallas. Then, I asked him out of curiosity if his checks had the Bucks logo on them. "I get direct deposit," he said. Now the former Penn State star will be directly depositing checks from the 76ers. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/wizardsinsider/2007/09/booth_bounces.html --

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