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Spend wisely, Kiki

By David Aldridge
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, February 5, 2004

This is a cautionary tale to my good friends in the Mile High. A few years ago, there was a team with a plan. It had fallen from the NBA heights to its depths, and it was time to rebuild. The plan was simple: create the maximum amount of room under the salary cap to sign big-time free agents. That required the team to, in essence, sacrifice a season. The idea was to sign or trade for cheap players at the end of their contracts, bottom out, and the following summer, the team would be in position ...

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