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Two things that he still needs to work on are his foul and TO rate.
How can his contract increase that much between years 2 and 3? Is that because of some obscure rule like the Arenas Rule was for Lin and Asik, or it this something that happens normally?
Two things that he still needs to work on are his foul and TO rate.
yeah another tall guy who probably will be on the bench the first year becuase lack of corporate knowledge and doesn't spread the floor
See Bruno's post from earlier in thread. A 4yr contract would have to be for the remainder of the MLE and would be 500K, min, min, min.
If true, especially if the last two years are team options, this is a very low risk/high reward deal for the Spurs.
From reading reports, Baynes deal should be something like:
2012-2013: $500,000
2013-2014: $788,872
2014-2015: $915,243
2015-2016: $981,348
The first year could be few $K (depending on when he will sign) and the last 2 years should be unguaranteed. In addition to that Spurs have given $400K to Lubjana for the buyout. So, Spurs have invested $1.7M in Baynes.
His twitter if you want to follow
https://twitter.com/aronbaynes
Are foreign free agents more likely to take less money to join the Spurs than another team? If so, is that because of the large international presence already on the team, the FO's good reputation, the fact that the team is good, or something else?
Thanks, but I was referring to the post ace3g had saying that years 3 and 4 were for $2 Million each. Maybe the source mistook $2 Million total over those years as annual amounts?
And now that more known sources are confirming this deal:
I don't expect Baynes to be great but he will be solid. I hope Pop will be done with playing lineups without a center. Diaw, Bonner or Blair at center sucks.
Forgot someone...
Our mini-blake griffin?
The buyout could also only be $300K. When Maccabi was close to signing him, reports said that the buyout Lubjana wanted for him was $300K. While it's possible that Lubjana has upped his request by $100K, it's also possible that there were a confusion between € and $ since €300K roughly equal to $400K.
Good news. I like his offensive presence in those highlight videos.
I understood your point. Thought I addressed it by pointing to a better source for contract information than the source cited.
FINALLY! a no name, unproven player Spurs fans can about when Pop doesn't play him!
Now Pop has to figure out which bigman combos work the best: Timmy, Splitter, Diaw, and Baynes
And which point-guard, big man bench combo works the best. Does Pop go with De Colo and Splitter? Patty and Baynes? etc.
And you did. I was just wondering. We were all assuming that Baynes' deal would just be a four-year, minimum contract, which seems to be the case. I didn't know if there was some obscure rule we had overlooked in our projections that could allow a team to have an increase greater than 4.5 percent. If it were possible, I could understand why it could happen, as I have no idea why Baynes would commit himself to such a long-term deal otherwise.
yes. Sure he's a scrub but I've been wanting the Spurs to sign a big body like the goddamn Aaron Gray and Kyle Fesenko for the past couple of seasons, the Spurs needed another big body on the bench
He seems to have the physical tools necessary for it. Tall, pretty good wingspan, decent leaper, and he seems to have at least some lateral quickness. Mentally, I'm not sure. I read something that said he didn't get into basketball until he was 16. He was a rugby player before that so he certainly won't lack toughness. Here's the article: http://london2012.olympics.com.au/at...on-baynes/meet
It's nice now that there is that option. Diaw has a center next to him instead of relying on Jack/Kawhi at the 4 or overplaying Duncan and Splitter or worse playing Bonner and Blair.
BTW, little known fact, like Splitter, Baynes is an Euroleague MVP.
Gotcha.
I think he's committing to such a long term deal at the minimum to secure the 1.3M guaranteed in the first two years. That may be more money than he could have expected to make over a much longer period of time overseas. Someone upthread said his salary in Slovenia was 70K. I have no idea if that's true, but I think it's safe to say that a minimum contract in the NBA represents a substantial bump in pay for Baynes.
Oh wow. Then yes, of course it makes sense for him to sign a rookie-level deal. I can't believe he was making so little money (even if it was more than 70k) this year. I hope he's significantly better than that now.
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