Marvin Williams Most Likely Hawk to be Amnesty Cut

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Most likely amnesty cut: Marvin Williams

 

How likely to use amnesty this season? Jump ball

 

Other amnesty candidates: None

 

Analysis: Sources with knowledge of the Hawks' thinking insist that the team isn't ready to give up on Williams. Atlanta apparently still thinks that, at worst, it can deal him away, despite the Hawks' inability to find any sort of trade market for Williams up to now. The fact that Atlanta's ownership situation remains highly unsettled, thanks to the latest revelations about Alex Meruelo's attempt to buy the franchise potentially collapsing, might also buy Williams some more time in the ATL.

 

Yet most rival teams believe that, at some point in whatever amnesty window is ultimately made official, Williams and the remaining money on his deal ($25 million through 2013-14) have to go. The guy (Billy Knight) who drafted him ahead of Chris Paul when Paul wanted to land with the Hawks is long gone. There can be no conceivable motivation left within the organization to try to camouflage the grave Williams mistakes (drafting him and then extending him) of the past.

 

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/7147880/nba-most-likely-amnesty-candidates

 

Would you agree with the Hawks using their amnesty cut on Marvin Williams? Why or why not?

Edited October 31, 2011 by The Great BFT

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It would make sense. Plus they can replace him with plenty of FAs that probably come cheaper: DeShawn Stevenson, Josh Howard, Mo Evans, Anthony Parker, Al Thornton, Vlad Rad, etc.

 

Williams has been such a disappointment. I thought he'd be the 2nd best player of his draft behind Paul and that both of them would be multiple time all-stars and on a level way ahead of any other player in the draft. Oops. I guess Atlanta is thinking the same thing.