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Best players in Europe make more than they can make in NBA now. Fans in US must accept reality of this and stop living in past. Is just how it is now.
When it rains, it pours.
Too bad, for drought-stricken San Antonio area, that is only a metaphor.
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Best players in Europe make more than they can make in NBA now. Fans in US must accept reality of this and stop living in past. Is just how it is now.
Well why the was this guy drafted by the Spurs if there was little chance he would sign with the Spurs?? What you are saying can't be that cut and dry. Teams don't just piss away draft picks.
Spurs also just give away Scola. What is point of them do this?
Spurs have done a pretty good job of that recently. Traded a productive back-up PF/second round pick for cap relief & a low second-round pick, paid a team to take a former first-rounder off their hands, last year's first rounder could stay in Europe earning way more than rookie base salary for some time, cut last year's early second rounder to sign a back-up PG that went to Europe, and traded next year's first rounder for a guy who's not even playing in this series.
I just wish he hadn't declared for the draft if he wasn't sure about making the jump to the NBA. I guess the writing was on the wall since he had been pussyfooting about declaring for the draft for several years already.
They wanted to get something for a player they weren't going to pay $3 million a year before he signed an extension.
He had to declare for the draft...it's mandatory at 22.
It would have been nice if Splitter at least came to San Antonio and talked face to face with the Spurs before making a decision about where he was going to play next year. I'm sure Tau put a deadline on their offer so that Splitter would take the offer and not talk with the Spurs. Supposedly Buford is a friend of the Tau coach. The Spurs (if Splitter stays oversees) are really not getting the job done in the front office lately on several fronts. This is a very discouraging development.
You wonder (if splitter stays over now) if he will ever come over. It's not like the rookie scale goes away and by 2011 the Spurs core is mostly done or about done. By then, there will be roster spots aplenty available.
A reason stated for the Spurs drafting this guy was the low buyout on his contract where he could come over in 08. I guess that was just talk in the end about Splitter really wanting to play in the NBA.
It's very easy for Splitter to talk about wanting to play in the NBA, until Tau makes an offer that few of us would turn down. He comes off looking like a flake, but it's hard to blame him, and ultimately, hard to blame the Spurs considering what he was saying at the time. This should be the end of first round draft and stashes until the NBA addresses discrepancies between the rookie base salary and what good young players can get in Europe.
First, it's still a rumor for the moment. AFAIK, he hasn't signed for the moment his extension with TAU.
Second, if Splitter re-sign with Tau, it would be incredibly lame.
It makes no doubt that Spurs have talked to him/his agent before the draft. If Spurs have drafted him, it was because they thought that he will go in NBA in 2009. Changing his mind after a team has invested on you a first round pick isn't a fair move towards it. Late first round picks market value is $3M in cash. You act like a piece of if you basically say to a team "spend $3M on me" and one year later you say "I won't come in NBA , you're ed".
Splitter said two weeks ago "NBA is my dream, I won't change my mind and I will go there for sure". If fifteen days late, you sign an extension with Tau. it means that you were lying and you have just used the NBA team to get a bigger extension from Tau.
I think this report form Marca is BS and Splitter will sign in SA. If he re-signs with Tau, he can go to .
All i know is this better not be a huge issue of money for the Spurs because Duncan took 11 mil less on his contract extension because he was supposedly made promises by the front office of what they could do with that extra cap space, to stay compe ive. They better make good on that with what is left of this era, the best era of Basketball the Spurs will probably ever see.
This has nothing to do with money -- at least from the Spurs side. They are locked into paying Splitter whatever his slot is in the draft. They can't offer him any more than that.
Ah, WTF
The Spurs are locked in initially, but if a guy can play, he will get paid a lot more in the NBA in the long run (assuming health and playing ability). SA needs help up front and he can provide it. Plus he gets the clock started on the second contract where the real money awaits. An insurance contract could alleviate some early monetary concerns I guess.
Hope Bruno is correct and this report is just speculation at this point.
What about a signing bonus?
Is that included with his slot in the draft, or is that on the side?
Splitter is getting jack for money compared to Europe if he wants to play in the NBA. There is no way around that.
Screw him. Mahinmi's better anyways.
The problem is the locked in money feature in the rookie draft contracts. Who could have predicted that Tau would spend so much money on Splitter?
It just goes to show how the money situation in Europe is so changed from years ago. Now their best players are going to be compensated comparable to at least the mid-range players in the NBA in order to keep them.
If Splitter takes 3 million as opposed to 1 million, who can blame him. It's a business and he has to do what is better for his situation now. Who knows if he'll be able to cash in some time in the future in the NBA.
what's the $ worth these days vs. the euro....something like $0.72?
There's no news about it in Brazil press.
The guy who first reported it two weeks ago has nothing on his blog.
I have a friend who work in a radio here in Brazil and talked with Tiago after he was drafted last year.
I send the Marca link to him and he'll try to contact Tiago.
If I have some news I'll post it
Would only that were true . . .
Why you keep repeat this lie over and over here? Have you not listen at all to Europe members here? You need stop live in past. This just not true what you say. If player is deem worth of NBA max contract by rich club in Europe like CSKA, PAO, or Olympiacos then player will get same as NBA max contract. You just refuse listen to thing be explain to you over and over.
Who's earning something comparable to max NBA money right now in Europe?
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