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Interesting. On every Pelican's site the story of Casspi's release from Pelicans got all kind of weird explanations and descriptions.
I've already seen that it was because of his religion or because of Israel's politics support... And here is new discovery that "he forced a buyout"...
Actually things were very simple and Casspi quite clearly explained it at least in Hebrew.
After Casspi's terrible tenure in Cavs (what happened there is really out of scope) he didn't have many proposals... McHale called him and proposed Casspi to play strech-4 in Houston (kind of "poor man Ryan Anderson"). Casspi agreed to sign 2-years min. vet. contract with only 1st year guaranteed. The result was I would say moderate success... But at the end of the year Rockets used him as filler in trade (with not guaranteed contract - so no buyout were needed on his release).
Casspi came to New Orleans and asked coach and GM what plans are for him. But they've seen him now as strech-4 ...and they had orginal Ryan Anderson. So the answer was: you report to the camp, and if we like what we see we'll sign you as 3rd-string PF (yes, after AD and Andeson...).
- But I'm SF first, I can play 3...
- Nope, we have enough SFs (Salmons and Co. actually)… And by the way certainly there's chance we'll just cut you after the camp.
- Oh... Ok. Can you then cut me right now so I'll try to find some team which may actually play me?