Bring on the Rockettes fans meltdown: Tau negotiating with Carl Landry

[ducks]

Report that West has big-money offer in Russia is false

[underdawg]

So, what are ticket prices over there? If there's only 40 games compared to 82, where is all this revenue going to come from? I'm just guessing, but it looks like a lot of these teams' budgets would have to double to keep up with these contracts. Has basketball become that popular that they're able to withstand the increase in salaries? I see a bubble bursting in the near future and some of these players that took the money getting the shaft.

[nil.ball]

lol they really gonna give someone with a bad knee 15mil without medical exam?

and if they really willing, why hasn't landry signed yet? is he ed?

[mystargtr34]

Damn, y'all have really gayed up this thread. We had some decent conversation of Carl Landry then comes the IP addresses then some other .

Grow the up people.

DaDakota is more interesting than the Carl Landry talk recently, since there has been no news for weeks.

[GSH]

Here is how I try.


15 million dollars for Landry's ego?

author: Patryk Kurkowski, 2008-07-25, 11:38, : inf. by Patrick Kurkowski, 2008-07-25, 11:38, the source: inf. / media Proper / foreign media
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25-year-old American - Carl Landry last season defended the colors Houston Rockets. The team from Texas was not the primary character. Despite this TAU Ceramica Vitoria are very interested in acquiring the player. According to some media Basque team offer 206 cm (6-9) in height up 15 million dollars for two seasons performances in their team.
Carl Landry in 2007, he was elected in draft with the number 31 trainers by the Seattle Supersonics. But the debut of the floor most leagues in the world undergone team Houston Rockets. 25-year-old American in played 47 matches, which is noted for its account 8 points and 5 collections.

Despite this TAU Ceramica Vitoria offer up 15 million dollars for two seasons performances in their teams. It is not known, however, whether Landry agrees to the game on the Old Continent.

Carl measured 206 cm (6-9) in height and on the floor act as a powerful wing.

Here is how I try:

author: Patryk Kurkowski, 2008-07-25, 11:38, : inf. by Patrick Kurkowski, 2008-07-25, 11:38, the source: Some guy with (try not to laugh) Polish media credentials, producer and director: Patrick Kurkowski, filmed in Kurkowskiscope

The 25 year old American played in 48 games for the Rockets, which is the equivalent of an entire season, plus playoffs in the Euro leagues. Landry averaged 8 points and 5 rebounds per game, but in the playoffs those numbers fell to 5.7 points and 4.7 rebounds per game.

Despite those less than impressive statistics, and the fact that he has only one season of NBA experience, Tau has allegedly offered upwards of $15 Million over two seasons in an attempt to entice him to move to a place where women have hairy armpits, and deodorant is optional. There are rumors that the owner of the team is so pissed about his former star, Luis Scola, playing for Houston that he has vowed to take one of their players, "No matter what the it costs."

The good news for Tau fans is that 8 points in the NBA should translate to around 20 ppg in the Euro league. Should Landry fail to live up to that expectation, his contract may be terminated early by a group of Basque terrorists. As the owner of the team says, "I provide the villa... I know where he ing lives."

Landry is 6'9", 245 lbs. and will play the position of "powerful wing", which is yet another Euro invention, to try and make it look as if they actually created the damn game. For more information about the players on Tau Ceramica, follow this hyperlink http://www.euroleague.net/euroleague...Tau%20Ceramica and look under "Roasters". You might think that a team capable of paying $15 million for Carl Landry could afford to actually hire someone to translate the word "roster" into English and spell it right... but you would be mistaken.

[ShoogarBear]

So, what are ticket prices over there? If there's only 40 games compared to 82, where is all this revenue going to come from? I'm just guessing, but it looks like a lot of these teams' budgets would have to double to keep up with these contracts. Has basketball become that popular that they're able to withstand the increase in salaries? I see a bubble bursting in the near future and some of these players that took the money getting the shaft.

This was my original point. If the idea is to eventually make money from the basketball teams, then this is not a tenable direction for the European Leagues.

On the other hand, they may just be interested in creating a splash, willing to write off the losses against their other revenues, and gamble that eventually there will be a big TV payoff at the end.

[Kori Ellis]

I hate that the same thread is in both the NBA forum and the Spurs forum.

So please continue the conversation here:

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101907

Thanks.