Billy Knight speaks about the late night deal that sent Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Theo Ratliff, and Dan Dickau to Portland for Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person.

In his statement released by the team, Knight talks about the difficulty in dealing a player like Shareef that "has everything you want in a player" and calls the team "financially strapped".

Also in the statement, Terry Stotts talks about the deal from the coaches point of view.