You know what I say now...Screw Z yeah I said it and I will probably catch more heat than Richard Pryor for this but I don't care. We paid him 42 mill to sit at the end of the bench and be a spectator. Now he doesn't even have the common courtesy to lessen his pay day so we can put a better product on the court. And he has the b@||$ to go on a vacation for 3 weeks? Dedicated players workout daily, LeBron has been working out in Akron and many others like Jackson at Oregon and stuff. And at Z's age he is going to sit all summer and come back with a fat new deal and have to get in shape during preseason? Thats a joke and has the nerve to whine about why his deal isn't getting done? Gee I donno why maybe cuz he is on the back of an Alpaca somewhere in the Mountains and his cell phone lost reception. If he cared about getting this thing done he would meet with Ferry face to face until it was done everyone knows you accomplish more talking with someone face to face then you can over a phone. His agent is a shrewd waste of flesh who makes the Postons look charitable. I say we skip 8-12 million on a bloated contract that will last 5 years when in 5 years he could be in a body cast with arthritis, he is going to be sustaining more injuries and in a conference with Shaq and Big Ben his body is going to endure a lot more then he will be able to handle. So why don't we skip this persue a young Eddy Curry who has vowed to lose weight and who is only 22 years old, or maybe persue Jerome James this guy was lights out in the post season, and if it doesn't work out its only a 3-6 mill contract. Where in Z's case we know for a fact in 3 years he will be in bad physical shape. I don't get where everyone is getting this idea that we owe Z. I really don't he got 42 million free dollars from us and we never griped about it one bit we never even got any compensation from the league for it I don't think if you remember the knicks got 4 mill when McDyess' knee gave out. We don't owe Z if anything he owes us. The only way I would be alright with him signing is if he bumped it down to around 6 mill per or we landed Sarunas or it is a short term deal. Other wise I'm sayin farewell Z it was real...