Boozer not opting out!!

[jazzypimp]

Utah Jazz: Boozer not opting out of contract


By Tim Buckley (http://www.deseretnews.com/site/staff/1,5231,250,00.html)
Deseret News

Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:29 p.m. MDT
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Starting power forward Carlos Boozer will not opt out of his contract with the Jazz next season, general manager Kevin O'Connor said through a team spokesman today. Boozer will return to the Jazz next season at $12,657,233.

He will become an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2010.
The Jazz still do not know if starting center Mehmet Okur will opt in or opt out, but his agent has said Okur is leaning toward opting out. Okur has until 10 p.m. MDT to decide.


FFFFFFFuuuuuccckkk!! I am afraid mansap is a casualty at boozers expense!! Then Boozer bolts next year, and the jazz have no PF..:depressed

[redzero]

Deron Williams is secretly raging right now. He should come to the Hornets. Paul could use a good backup point guard.

[Muser]

:lmao

[z0sa]

i wonder if he'll get more than 7 blocks this season

[Thunder Dan]

Boozer sucks, he knows he won't get more than $12 mill

[N4th4n]

Sucks for the Jazz

[timvp]

Ouch.

[Behrooz24]

What teams were in the Boozer sweeps?

[Killakobe81]

Well if someone REALLY wants Paul Milsap or Okur they are available ...no way a new ownership group will green-light another HUGE salary to add to Derron, AK47 and Boozer's ...My guess is Milsap is gone and Okur as well they were not going to win title anyway ...but they can use this season to decide on Boozer's future

[DPG21920]

This could be awesome for the West. Now maybe the Pistons will pick off Odom or Ariza.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

i wonder if he'll get more than 7 blocks this season


:lmao

[dirk4mvp]

i wonder if he'll get more than 7 blocks this season

I just looked it up. I didn't think you were serious at first :wakeup

[ginobili's bald spot]

I just looked it up. I didn't think you were serious at first :wakeup

:lol Same here. I can't believe that wasn't hyperbole.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

I play fantasy basketball that's the only reason I knew it wasn't hyperbole. Whichever team drafts Boozer as their stud big man is always last in the league in blocks.

[redzero]

Wait, Boozer only had seven blocks the entire season?

[bdictjames]

:lol

Hilarity ensues

[JamStone]

Sigh of relief from Pistons Nation...

[mytespurs]

Can/Will the Jazz trade him or attempt to?

[ffadicted]

Great news for all NBA teams not from Utah

[Findog]

I read somewhere that his pending divorce proceedings have a lot to do with his contract status...she gets less money this way. Supposedly she's only entitled to half of that $12 million left on his contract. But if he signs another big deal while they're still married, she gets half of that. Jazz fan, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't follow your team that closely.

[JamStone]

Can/Will the Jazz trade him or attempt to?

After the sigh of relief, Pistons Nation is reminded of an equally scary prospect that might happen...

[redzero]

Chris Paul had three more blocks than Boozer had, and Nate Robinson only had one less block. Wow.

[baseline bum]

Nice... one less competitor for Odom and his contract.

[benefactor]

Milsap is good as gone now.

[HarlemHeat37]

Well it looked like Milsap was gone either way with the rumored OKC offer..

[tomtom]

FFFFFFFuuuuuccckkk!! I am afraid mansap is a casualty at boozers expense!! Then Boozer bolts next year, and the jazz have no PF..:depressed

lol he managed to screw the jazz 2 fold

[ShoogarBear]

Carlos Boozer, always leaving happy teams in his wake.

[MarHill]

Well...I'm not surprised!!

This was his best option and no athlete is going to walk away from 12 million.

[balli]

I hope he dies some terrible death. A plane crash, a murderous wife, a piece of filet in his windpipe, H1N1. No hyperbole, but hypothetically, any naturally occurring accident that could end his life, would be fine with me.

Die Boozer.

[VivaPopovich]

FFFFFFFuuuuuccckkk!! I am afraid mansap is a casualty at boozers expense!! Then Boozer bolts next year, and the jazz have no PF..:depressed

sloan will retain one of them, my guess it'll be millsap

[angelbelow]

well if milsap leaves im drafting boozer for fantasy basketball.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

well if milsap leaves im drafting boozer for fantasy basketball.


Good luck using an early pick on a big man that doesn't block shots.

[balli]

A hypothetical open letter to hypothetical Jazz fans from a hypothetical power forward ...

OK, OK, OK. Maybe we got off on the wrong foot here, the wrong hamstring, the wrong knee, or, I dunno, maybe it was the wrong heart.

Let's start over.

Looking back, it was a bad idea for me to announce in December, when I wasn't even playing because a bad left wheel benched me for what turned out to be most of the season, that I was going to opt out and, to quote myself, "no matter what, I'm going to get a raise, regardless."

Sometimes your words come back to haunt you.

They sounded pretty dumb then, and they sound especially dumb now. Dumb. Dumber. Dumbest.

I know, I know, after Larry Miller heard my remarks, he called what I said and when I said it, "one of the 10 stupidest things I've ever heard an NBA player do in 24 years."

He was right. Even my man D-Will said my comments were "a little odd."

But it was what I was feeling at the time, what I was feeling right up until Tuesday, when it finally crashed in on me that nobody in the league wanted to pay me what I thought I was worth: $15 million a year.

It hurts, man. That kind of cake was nowhere in sight.

So I'll settle now for a measly $12.7 for one last season in Utah.

If I'd only known.

I guess my past caught up with me. Messing over the Cavs the way I did, chasing the money, always the money, and then missing a third of my games over the past five years with the Jazz. I didn't think that was any sort of big deal, but ... apparently, it was. Who knew?

Well. I can change.

No, no, really. Don't boo me, just boooooooozer me.

I can stop thinking about myself and start thinking about the team. I might even, on good nights, play short stretches of defense. Or get Mehmet to play more. One of us has to stop somebody sometime. I vote for him.

I know by opting in that I've made pig slop out of the Jazz's salary situation. I'm blasting the smithereens out of the cap. Not only are the Jazz going to have to give luxury tax money over to the league, if they re-sign Paul Millsap, which they've said all along they want to do, they could blast toward $30 million in increased salary and luxury money.

On the other hand, now they might lose Paul.

Collateral damage.

It's all right. Maybe they can get their money back by raising ticket prices. We all have to do our part here. It's a team effort. Sure, that financial burden crushes a small-market franchise, but it helps me, it saves me from opting out and taking a large pay cut. I'm trying to be selfless here, but, hey, I can't get there all in one swoop. We can get through this together.

We can talk as though we're going to win a championship, you all can buy the tickets and get your hopes up, I can be real careful this time not to get hurt for longer than a month by never overextending myself, I'll get my nightly 20-and-10 when I'm playing, we'll lose early in the playoffs, and then, as a full-fledged free agent, I'll take the next flight out of town and dupe another team.

I can change like that.

I've learned my lessons.

I'm a team guy now, a humbled star, a new man.

Hypothetically speaking.

Best,

Your power forward (for one more year, unless the Jazz trade my butt)

http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_12728363

[KSeal]

Smart move by Boozer, sucks for the Jazz though.