Jazz to waive Campbell

http://www.freep.com/sports/pistons/pistons-bar122e_20050122.htm

A source familiar with the situation said the Jazz planned to release
Campbell as early as today. The Jazz will get salary cap relief next season
for acquiring Campbell.


If he clears waivers after 48 hours, the Pistons can sign Campbell again to
the veterans' minimum, which is $1.1 million.

Campbell has about $2.5 million left on a contract that pays him $4.4
million this season. A team would have to be under the salary cap to claim
him off waivers. About the only teams in that category are Houston,
Charlotte and New Jersey.


The Pistons hope none of those three claims Campbell. If he doesn't return,
that would leave only Darko Milicic and Antonio McDyess as backup big men on
the roster. Milicic sat out Friday's loss to Milwaukee with the flu.


Last year, when the Pistons traded Hunter and Chucky Atkins in the move that
brought Rasheed Wallace to Detroit, they knew the Celtics would release
Hunter. Once Hunter cleared waivers, they signed him again, and he was
instrumental in helping the team to the NBA championship.

This sounds to me like a sacrifice by Utah. The team isn't improved by
this move, and the future upside is small and vague. But the team isn't
damaged by it either since Arroyo wasn't doing anything here.

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