Kill_Bill_Pana
11-11-2008, 09:25 PM
It seem Yahoo is confirm Kobe to Olympiacos rumor. This was not report earlier in Greece and US. Was somehow miss by press because was still consider unconfirmed rumor by US press from "small source". But is now report in Greece and probably will be In US also. "Rumor" was confirm by Eurosport which is like ESPN of all Europe and also by Yahoo in Italy.
http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/15102008/45/nba-olympiacos-60-milioni-per-bryant.html?page=2&order=date
NBA - Olympiacos: $60 million to Bryant
* Childress in Greece $20 million net.
* Olympiacos: $50 million for James.
George and Panagiotis Angelopoulos, profession: shipowners. In practice, multi-billionaires.
The team in their hands is Olympiacos Piraeus, for use in their projects, to become the strongest team in the world outside the NBA landscape: in the United States will define the European version of Mark Cuban, the wealthy owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and the first leg at basketball overseas were already coming summer, ripping Josh Childress to the Atlanta Hawks with a three-year engagement of $20 million dollars net, the most expensive contract ever signed in the history of basketball of the Old Continent (and which will Childress to earn in Europe, more than what was offered in America).
Over the past three years the brothers Angelpoulos have flirted (without, however, arrive at a signature black and white) with Michael Finley, Chris Webber, James Posey, Anthony Parker, Kelenna Azubuike, Charlie Bell, Ricky Davis, Jannero Pargo and Maurice Evans: no big star now (for Finley and Webber will talk about contacts with the players some time in descending years), but after the Childress aims of the Greek shipowners seems to have lifted, as well as the cachet placed on the plate. In the next Olympiacos estate owners say they are ready to offer NBA king Kobe Bryant: three years from $60 million dollars with the taxes and agent fees paid by the club (in the NBA, unlike the players have to pay taxes and agent fees on contract signed), a villa on the Mediterranean Sea with butler and maid, a boat with crew and a private university school education paid for the children, with the possibility to leave by the end of the first or second year without paying any penalty.
After the flight of players from the States towards the Old Continent that marked last summer, Kobe Bryant had joked, saying that he would come to Italy (in this case Olympia Milano) along with Dwyane Wade for a two-year $50 million dollars contract. The Olympiacos offers $60 million net, in three years, Angelopoulos brothers are convinced that in future the super-NBA stars will accept proposals outside the USA. "There will be a day, and in a relatively near future" - explain on the pages of the New York Post - "in which we see the NBA stars play in Europe but not in any teams, but Olympiacos. The next summer open a small office in New York, and we will talk of negotiations with free-agents."
Surely a move suitable for those players stuck in the so-called mid-level exception (restricted free-agents which veterans may be offered an extension by one year to $5.6 million dollars, as in the case of Josh Childress), although the Greek brothers even thinking of entering the fray of the "Summer of Lebron" of 2010, in an attempt to bring Lebron James, in that free-agent of Cleveland to the Acropolis.
Daniele Fantini / Eurosport Daniele Fantini / Eurosport
I should also say was report in Greece Olympiacos owners is also want to offer Kobe his own 5 star chef paid for by club for allowance for player's adjustment to different food.:rolleyes
http://it.eurosport.yahoo.com/15102008/45/nba-olympiacos-60-milioni-per-bryant.html?page=2&order=date
NBA - Olympiacos: $60 million to Bryant
* Childress in Greece $20 million net.
* Olympiacos: $50 million for James.
George and Panagiotis Angelopoulos, profession: shipowners. In practice, multi-billionaires.
The team in their hands is Olympiacos Piraeus, for use in their projects, to become the strongest team in the world outside the NBA landscape: in the United States will define the European version of Mark Cuban, the wealthy owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and the first leg at basketball overseas were already coming summer, ripping Josh Childress to the Atlanta Hawks with a three-year engagement of $20 million dollars net, the most expensive contract ever signed in the history of basketball of the Old Continent (and which will Childress to earn in Europe, more than what was offered in America).
Over the past three years the brothers Angelpoulos have flirted (without, however, arrive at a signature black and white) with Michael Finley, Chris Webber, James Posey, Anthony Parker, Kelenna Azubuike, Charlie Bell, Ricky Davis, Jannero Pargo and Maurice Evans: no big star now (for Finley and Webber will talk about contacts with the players some time in descending years), but after the Childress aims of the Greek shipowners seems to have lifted, as well as the cachet placed on the plate. In the next Olympiacos estate owners say they are ready to offer NBA king Kobe Bryant: three years from $60 million dollars with the taxes and agent fees paid by the club (in the NBA, unlike the players have to pay taxes and agent fees on contract signed), a villa on the Mediterranean Sea with butler and maid, a boat with crew and a private university school education paid for the children, with the possibility to leave by the end of the first or second year without paying any penalty.
After the flight of players from the States towards the Old Continent that marked last summer, Kobe Bryant had joked, saying that he would come to Italy (in this case Olympia Milano) along with Dwyane Wade for a two-year $50 million dollars contract. The Olympiacos offers $60 million net, in three years, Angelopoulos brothers are convinced that in future the super-NBA stars will accept proposals outside the USA. "There will be a day, and in a relatively near future" - explain on the pages of the New York Post - "in which we see the NBA stars play in Europe but not in any teams, but Olympiacos. The next summer open a small office in New York, and we will talk of negotiations with free-agents."
Surely a move suitable for those players stuck in the so-called mid-level exception (restricted free-agents which veterans may be offered an extension by one year to $5.6 million dollars, as in the case of Josh Childress), although the Greek brothers even thinking of entering the fray of the "Summer of Lebron" of 2010, in an attempt to bring Lebron James, in that free-agent of Cleveland to the Acropolis.
Daniele Fantini / Eurosport Daniele Fantini / Eurosport
I should also say was report in Greece Olympiacos owners is also want to offer Kobe his own 5 star chef paid for by club for allowance for player's adjustment to different food.:rolleyes