just gave Reggie Jackson 80 million dollars

[benefactor]

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Pist:lolns

[gambit1990]

:lol ridiculous...

[Double-Up]

Damn...Pistons are garbage...:lol

[baseline bum]

Jennings tore his ACL and they need a point guard. It's not as bad as the Matthews contract.

[Spur-Addict]

Jennings tore his ACL and they need a point guard. It's not as bad as the Matthews contract.

My thoughts exactly.

Stanley Johnson is going to be a beast though.

[ddjeffries]

wow. overpaid by a lot. id guess he'd be worth 10-11 no?

[m>s]

After all the deals we've seen thus far how does this surprise anyone?

[benefactor]

Man that Danny Green contract just gets better and better.

[baseline bum]

wow. overpaid by a lot. id guess he'd be worth 10-11 no?

Wesley Matthews just got $14.25 million off a torn ACL. DeMarre Carroll just got $15 million a season. Honestly $16 million a season doesn't sound so crazy for Jackson with what people have been getting paid.

[spurraider21]

Wesley Matthews just got $14.25 million off a torn ACL. DeMarre Carroll just got $15 million a season. Honestly $16 million a season doesn't sound so crazy for Jackson with what people have been getting paid.
bad contracts dont justify other bad contracts

[ddjeffries]

Wesley Matthews just got $14.25 million off a torn ACL. DeMarre Carroll just got $15 million a season. Honestly $16 million a season doesn't sound so crazy for Jackson with what people have been getting paid.

ya good point. wages are so inflated right not leading into the new tv contract, it just makes DG's contract that much better.

[benefactor]

Contract is fully guaranteed too.

[baseline bum]

ya good point. wages are so inflated right not leading into the new tv contract, it just makes DG's contract that much better.

Yeah, I have no idea how they locked Green in at $45 million. LDN gave quite the hometown discount.

[HarlemHeat37]

They are pretty desperate, tbh..not many alternatives..

I'm not a fan, but he is still young and obviously talented..SVG got more out of Jennings than any of his previous coaches did, he could probably do the same with Jackson..

[The Franchise]

Well darn.

[Will Hunting]

At this point idk why people are laughing, it's pretty clear that with the new salary cap next year any player capable of wiping his own ass will get paid $15+ million a year.

[Sean Cagney]

After all the deals we've seen thus far how does this surprise anyone?

Everyone is getting the max or near it, average players to just good ones it seems are overpaid.

[benefactor]

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Pretty good take. I think they could have done better than a fully guaranteed 80 million.

[HarlemHeat37]

:lol NFL players have been saaaaalllltttyy about NBA contracts the past week, tbh..

[Joseph Kony]

I remember this young somalian back when he was hot new booty at my camp. Richest somalian pirate I've ever known

[Splits]

This dude absolutely failed when he was traded mid-season to the Pistons, yet they reward him with this shit? :lol

Dude isn't worth more than 3/20. Pistons FO is worse than the Lakers.

[Will Hunting]

:lol NFL players have been saaaaalllltttyy about NBA contracts the past week, tbh..

I'm not sure how the NBAPA suckered the owners into a salary cap as high as the one projected next year, there's no way the NFL's owners would ever get tricked like that :lol

[Will Hunting]

I remember this young somalian back when he was hot new booty at my camp. Richest somalian pirate I've ever known

:lmao

[Robz4000]

:lmao

[024]

Wtf, Jackson was good leading the Thunder without Westbrook but not THAT good.

[benefactor]

Pistons are definitely justifying this by the market...and I guess I get that(as Harlem said, not a lot of alternatives)...but you gotta think there isn't a single team out there that gives him an offer sheet this steep. They probably could've waited it out and matched and saved themselves 10-15 million. But it's not my circus, so fuck it.:lol

[baseline bum]

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:lol worked pretty well for him, though now he plays in Oklahoma North

[Spur-Addict]

What I'm surprised about is the length of the contract. Wondering if there's a team option in the fifth.

[ViceCity86]

Congrats to Jackson signing with Detroit.He can afford abundance of the best bullet proof vest.

[ducks]

David Aldridge ‏@daldridgetnt 7m7 minutes ago
People thought Reggie Jackson was crazy to turn down an offer of $12 million a year from OKC. But his agent, Aaron Mintz, got that & more.

[HarlemHeat37]

I'm not sure how the NBAPA suckered the owners into a salary cap as high as the one projected next year, there's no way the NFL's owners would ever get tricked like that :lol

:lol That's true, but NFL players are morons, tbh..

All these complaints from people that don't understand that their shelf life is short and they're 1 hit away from ending their career(and potentially their lives)..

[Raven]

at this point, it's whatever....

[benefactor]

What I'm surprised about is the length of the contract. Wondering if there's a team option in the fifth.
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[HI-FI]

Props to his agent Mintz, that's how you shekelstein.

[jeebus]

He'll get David West syndrome after a while. Have a lot of money but will be tired of losing and will go to a good team for cheap.

[ducks]

dude just made thunder weaker yes!

[Spur-Addict]

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Van Gundy with the Dice roll. I guess you could look at it as a moveable contract with a nice expiring in the final year. They would be smart to move on from Jennings.

[Trill Clinton]

not a bad deal for reggie. he was going to get $12m's from okc so 16 mil isn't surprising.

[Thread]

^No, but, it is insane.

[Infinite_limit]

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[Trill Clinton]

^No, but, it is insane.

thats the way the cap is working this yearhttp://i58.tinypic.com/nwlt15.png

everybody is eating

[TDMVPDPOY]

du-ma starting to lose street cred with his recent signings over the years...

[baseline bum]

I'm not sure how the NBAPA suckered the owners into a salary cap as high as the one projected next year, there's no way the NFL's owners would ever get tricked like that :lol

I think it's a lower percentage of the average basketball related income than the previous collective bargaining agreement had. I have no fucking idea how the TV deal got so high this time around to push the BRI up so much though, it's not like Jordan unretired.

[baseline bum]

Yeah, the NBA salary cap is a significantly lower share of revenue than it was under the 2005 CBA. Back then it was 57% of basketball related income, now it goes between 49%-51% of BRI and the luxury tax is way more punitive now than it was under the old CBA. The lowest level of luxury tax is now a $1.50 per dollar tax, and it shoots up quick to $2.00 per dollar, then $3.00 per dollar, up to I think $4.00 per dollar over.

[Red Hawk #21]

Jennings tore his ACL and they need a point guard. It's not as bad as the Matthews contract.


Wesley Matthews just got $14.25 million off a torn ACL. DeMarre Carroll just got $15 million a season. Honestly $16 million a season doesn't sound so crazy for Jackson with what people have been getting paid.

You do know an Achilles rupture is much different than an ACL tear, right?

[baseline bum]

You do know an Achilles rupture is much different than an ACL tear, right?

Fucking shit, I don't know why I wrote ACL tear when I meant achilles tear. Achilles tear is so much worse.

[hsxvvd]

It's contracts like these that'll have owners asking for amnesty provisions in the next agreement.

[DMC]

Kobe got 50 million for half a season.

[DMC]

Makes sense. Now they have LMA and Jackson, title season imo.