Sources: Wallace Asked Pistons For Buyout

I didn't want to make this a main thread, but i couldn't really find anywhere else to put it, and i'm very bothered by it to say the least.

I don't know who this guy is and what his credibility is like. I also think the spec about CLE is BS. If this true IMO, he was going to the Spurs.

Anyway, grain of salt and all.

Bob Finnan's three points and rumor mill - The News-Herald Sports : Breaking news coverage for Northern Ohio

Much to do about nothing or . . . ?

Also it sounds like Dice is out as well; not a big surprise.

Get the hell out here and don't hit your head or your ass on the way out of Detroit, Sheed.

I don't discredit this report and I base my opinion on the effort he's shown since early March. Such a tough talker, but such an absence of a blue collar demeanor.

Whatever happened to "knuckling up?"

Oh God no Sheed not the Cav's, I couldn't bear seeing that. Please let this not be true....Sheed and Sideshow Bob on the same team!!!! That's impossible to comprehend.

We disagree on the lack of effort. I mainly saw an injured player, but if that was the case that he had asked for a buyout, and i'm not sure what exactly the deadline is to join another team but this makes it seem like the next-season not this season thing, that means he's 100% gone . . .

So why did Pistons management and by extension Curry feel the need to play him so many freakin minutes over other players that will likely be here next year and need the time ?

It doesn't make sense. If they knew he wanted out . . .

I'm going to wait to see if a more reliable source comments on it, but what a effin train wreck this season has been.

^ Be happy it's over. That's all I can really tell you.

Me? More time to focus on school, the Tigers, my social life, my job, and actually ENJOYING some good basketball being played (Rockets, Bulls vs. Celtics, who even while injured, are playing with a sense of pride that I haven't seen from this team all year).

As for Sheed he has nothing left, character-wise, to offer to a team, unless he wants to become a ring-chaser. It'd be better for everyone if he just disappeared back to Philly and looked out after his family.

Thanks for the Championship parade, the first two games if the 2007 ECF, and the community work, which includes a library to a local high school, but now it's your time to get the hell out of here.

What did you mean by this? Where did you read it?

Oh sorry; it was implied in a FreeP article today with a quote from Dice that didn't sound too promising.

Dice needs to get out of this toxic environment.

He has justification to ring-chase. He doesn't deserve this.

Thanks. Yea, I guess if Dyess is still looking for that elusive ring, then Detroit is not the place to be next season.

I say thanks for all the good times, thanks for your blue collar attitude when you first arrived, and good luck with your next team!

New owner...same old Pistons....throw dirt at a guy who's on his way out.....

Nothing like "class" to draw distinction to your organization.

If you fans can't see the pattern, then it's beyond me. How many times does this have to happen to a player/coach/escape goat before you realize this is how they operate?

Did Rasheed Wallace ask for a buyout to join the Cleveland Cavaliers? - Full-Court Press

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Oh dear... The "you just hate Sheed" card...

You didn't even have to watch the series to know that he was already defeated. You could just read the scoresheet.

There is no escapegoat. We have escapegoats, at least hopefully.

Fine. Get the hell out Sheed... don't let the door hit you on the you-know-what on the way out.

lol

I don't think Joe screwed up in letting Ben walk once it got to bidding time.

The screw up was hiring Flip Saunders, who basically disrespected Ben by viewing him as an offensive liability. Once Ben hated the coach and felt like he wasn't being utilized correctly and thought the team was going soft, his price to stay went up a ton.

Agree with Scoe that firing LB was a mistake, but that seems to have been Bill D's call, rather than Joe's. Remember, the interview of Bill D. posted here on 9/5/08 by Lpgrl26 in which Davidson said he wanted to get rid of Larry after half a season with him and "probably" would have fired him even if we had repeated as champs in 05.

As for Ben, he was already in decline after the conclusion of the 05-06 season, and that decline has continued. So Joe in my view made the right move in basically allowing the Pistons to be outbid for his services. I am glad we are not stuck with anything near what Chicago paid for Ben, as he clearly was not worth that contract. So I don't fault Joe for that decision. Indeed, it seems to me that he should have employed a similar logic as to Sheed, and traded him while he still had high value (in 06 or 07).

Maybe it's true, maybe not. But if Sheed wanted to go to Cleveland would he play like such a stiff against them?

At any rate, IMO, the sooner he is gone the better. Take Rip and Tay too. I'd rather see them just start over.