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Point guard says he and Kings agree to five-year contract
By Chad Ford
ESPN.com
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Updated: July 1, 2008, 4:10 PM ET
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The Sacramento Kings found a way to keep their starting point guard, Beno Udrih, despite some fierce compe ion.
Udrih and the Kings have verbally agreed to a five-year contract for the full mid-level exception, a source close to the situation told ESPN.com.
Assuming the full mid-level comes in at $5.5 million this year, Udrih would get a contract worth $33.3 million. The same source said Udrih would have a player option for the fifth year of his contract.
"I am so happy and honored to be returning to the Kings," Udrih told ESPN.com. "They took a chance on me and believed in me. I can't wait to get back to my teammates and the city that has become home to me."
The Kings outbid the Los Angeles Clippers, who also offered Udrih a five-year deal for the mid-level. Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy flew to New York and met with Udrih at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning -- the earliest NBA teams were permitted to commence negotiations and strike verbal agreements with free agents. Dunleavy was persuasive, but at the end of the day Udrih wanted to return to the team that gave him his big break.
The new contract is quite a turnaround for Udrih. For his first three years in the league Udrih was a little used back-up in San Antonio. At the start of last season, he was traded to Sacramento to fill in for the injured Mike Bibby. Udrih broke out and averaged 12.8 points and 4.3 assists for the Kings last season.
Chad Ford covers the NBA for ESPN Insider.
Wow. It will be interesting to see if Mr. Udrih comes to camp with a chip on his shoulder or a bag of tacos for the guys.
That's a crapload of breakfast tacos.
Beno celebrated with 5 mexican escorts, an 8 ball, and 5 bags of tacos from Taco Bueno.
OLE!
BTW Sacramento, you just failed miserably.
$33M for Beno. ROFL. Kid was injury prone while fighting for his NBA life. Imagine now that he has guaranteed money in the bank no matter what he does. Wow.
Although this does mean two things:
1) RC made a very good pick. A late first rounder getting a max MLE deal down the line means that RC was right. He just didn't factor in that Beno's soft mentality wouldn't mesh with Pop's coaching style. But the NBA talent was definitely there.
2) The Spurs are absolutely horrible at trading assets when their value is highest. When is the last time the Spurs made a trade that was anything remotely close to a "sell high". I can't think of one in the last decade. Trading Beno after his rookie season should have been the way to go. Even during the middle of the second season. Not after he hit rock bottom.
Oh well, the Spurs are 2 for their last 2 in identifying point guard talent late in the first round. Let's hope that becomes 3 for 3.
Yeah but at the time, it didn't make any sense at all to trade him.2) The Spurs are absolutely horrible at trading assets when their value is highest. When is the last time the Spurs made a trade that was anything remotely close to a "sell high". I can't think of one in the last decade. Trading Beno after his rookie season should have been the way to go. Even during the middle of the second season. Not after he hit rock bottom.
True.
Pop ran Beno's trade value down into the Earth's core.2) The Spurs are absolutely horrible at trading assets when their value is highest. When is the last time the Spurs made a trade that was anything remotely close to a "sell high". I can't think of one in the last decade. Trading Beno after his rookie season should have been the way to go. Even during the middle of the second season. Not after he hit rock bottom.
Oh well, the Spurs are 2 for their last 2 in identifying point guard talent late in the first round. Let's hope that becomes 3 for 3.
$33 million for ing Udrih??? Petrie is a jackass. This is almost as bad as his signing of John Salmons.
I dunno, Mikki Moore is right up there.
Once in the Doghouse, the trade value plumments.
Exhibit A: Matt Bonner
The guy has to be played to pique some interest around the league. Otherwise, we are relegated to Bonner and some broken down vets as trade assets.
Our three draft picks could evolve into something but their respective contracts really make them nothing more than filler.
Free Javtokas!! Could be tradeable if the right situation comes up.
How is he any better of a trade asset than anyone else?Free Javtokas!! Could be tradeable if the right situation comes up.
Yeah it did. Beno folded in the playoffs. Paino had already emerged. NVE was brought in. That was the perfect time to sell high and get good value.
But that's not how the Spurs operate, for whatever reason.
un ingbelievable
Damn. He ed them over.
Eh, they would've been labled nuts.
I guarantee you Pop wasn't ready to give up on him at that time either.
Maybe I'm wrong.
A signed Javtokas that is getting some PT would have value as an asset if the Spurs were inclined to make a trade. Of course his rights are not worth much but if he were brought over and was not a total bust, all of a sudden the Spurs would have more options such as packages that could include Udoka, the rookes, vets.
I am not saying sign him to trade him because that is stupid by itself but in the past our bench players were of very little value in regards to trading except for the expiring contracts here and there.
Wow.
Well, I guess they are expecting more out of him eh?
That's why they're called the Sacramento Queens.
Can somebody fill me in on the taco references, where Beno is concerned? Was that his food of choice or something, while he was in SA?
I here you Timvp on the trade value point....no body wanted Beno while we had him, now all of a sudden he is commanding a 5 year $33 mil deal & we basically got nothing in return for him...I wanted to trade him to the Clipps last year & take a flyer on Karalov(sp?), tall SF kid from Russia.. it would have been better than nothing basically
Point guards are in demand.
It has been posted here before that Beno was quite the fan of Taco Cabana during his tenure in our fair city.
I agree they should have gotten ridden of him when they decided he wasn't going to get playing time, especially when NVE, as bad as he was, got the nod over Beno towards the middle of the season.
So it's not our drafting that's bad, it's that we can't always develop players once they get here.
In that regard, it seems like Hill is a 'Pop guy' so that should help his chances immensely. Even if he does suck donkey balls, he'll probably still get PT.
Pop is fair in one regard: if one player is in the doghouse, there's usually a different player in the anti-doghouse who plays way too much, even when they suck horribly. NVE, Finley, Horry...
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