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And will most certainly make MLE money (whatever that may be) the year after that if he keeps this up.
The dude makes 500k a year and 800k next year....discuss
And will most certainly make MLE money (whatever that may be) the year after that if he keeps this up.
yeh him, blair and hills contract extentions are coming up
thank god timmy and ginos contract are off the books next season...they combine for 30m total i think....
We will see. It's too early to say anything really. It looks favorable, but he could go s up at any time, like get arrested for some bull at a nightclub. You never know.
Either way, 800,000 dollars is a lot of ing money.
Thought Manu signed until 2013 last year.
As long as he doesnt pull a ghost mode like RMJ did...
In ARG you got to work almost 20 years to earn that money, so is f...g good money.
TP and Manu was also underpaid at the begining of their careers.
let's see in the postseason
Landry Fields is on $470,000 this season. Worth a mention...
Nope, Neal signed a 3 year deal. Partially guaranteed no less.
Insanely good signing.
Completely different. Fields came in as a 2nd round draft pick with no bargaining power.
Neal came in as an undrafted free agent you had spent time in Europe proving himself and capable of signing on with any team. Fabricio came over and signed a deal in the same fashion but netted 2.5M for two years.
dude should get a nice xmas bonus..
He's signed for three years, and the owners are likely to kill the MLE during the lockout.
dont be fooled by the knicks players posting up stats....
we all know what happen when the spurs got butler from them...
Spurs have picked up guys like Bowen, Stephen Jackson, and Neal off the scrap heap and turned them into players who have long NBA careers.
Any team could have signed any of these guys for a minimal salary, and they didn't.
Bang for the buck.
Also, DeJuan Blair signed a modest (for NBA standards) four year guaranteed deal and should be a solid rotation player for a long time (given good health with his knees).
Keeping Neal a Spur in 3 years will of course be a completely different situation.
He will consider himself, as many teams will, to be a legitimate starter.
But we'll enjoy him until then.
He'll also be 29 and chasing, probably, his a long-term final contract to close out his career with.
Now, as an unathletic shooter he is likely to age much less drastically. You won't see as much of a depreciation in his returns as his legs slow down because thats not what makes him great. But it will always be a concern regardless. Neal, if he keeps his assassin at ude, could have a career into his mid-30's.
The Spurs develop players. If you had a skillset where you were a great craftsman, you could take on projects that others (I will call them buyers) would pass up simply because your vision is coupled with your ability. You know what this project can mean to you, and unlike others who see it as a money pit, you know that you can fix this thing to work for you, and in the process turn a great profit. Since this project is a human being, you can sculpt him to be the best he can be, to the point where other teams' buyers see him as a steal. So what was once a piece of junk in the eyes of the buyer is now a very desirable commodity.
The Spurs have craftsmen, other teams have buyers.
The Spurs latest victory over the Mavs has been met with some perspective, by the locals, mainly because of the absence of Dirk. However, it seems that the latest buzz around this game has been about Gary Neal.
For those who aren't privy to the temperature of SportsTalk here in the D/FW metroplex, the latest musings on the Spurs from the locals go something like this:
"Well it looks like the Spurs have done it again."
"I've never heard of this guy Gary Neal"
"Who is this new rookie?"
"Where the did this guy come from?"
"First Hill, then Blair, now this new kid Neal"
whats Neal contract look like? can he opt out after this season? btw,where's bruno?
3 years
minimum salary
first year guaranteed
Basically, the Spurs can keep him for three years at the minimum. If he were to become Roger Mason, they could cut him after this season and owe him nothing more.
Gary Neal is God.
Ahhh so, thanks to both. I was proceeding on the assumption that the OP included all of his salary. Even more of a steal in this case.
MLE was a proportional comparison. Whatever they choose to call "it" he's going to command something in the range proportional to the MLE today.
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