Nikola Mirotic - 2019 Free Agent

[ZeusWillJudge]

S&T is basically the same as always less the incentive for the player.

Thanks. I read a comment that I've never gotten around to checking out. So we're all calling for them to add two players to an already full roster. S&T looks like the only way to do that.

[NASpurs]

He gone

[r0drig0lac]

weird

[Degoat]

Wow!? I wonder why he went back to the EuroLeague

[Penya]

€12M per season. Probably the most lucrative deal ever in Europe.

[Play Boban]

Nba losing quality players to Europe. Today’s nba

[Dverde]

He gone

A lot more money out there with Mirotic and Collison leaving the NBA.

[TD 21]

Damn. I've long thought he'd end up with the Jazz. Watch them swoop in and acquire Marvin Williams, while these senile idiots let what should be a no brainer trade slip through their fingers and once again fail to address the glaring hole on this roster.

[jyra]

€12M per season. Probably the most lucrative deal ever in Europe.

No team in Europe has that much money to spend on one player.

[Ignazzz]

European contracts can cover income taxes.
7 mln = 14 mln in US.

[spurraider21]

Btw, in before the "bend over, I will give you an emphasis on the D" joke.

pretty sure you'd willingly bend over for bertans' D tbh

[Penya]

No team in Europe has that much money to spend on one player.

Barça has a €950M budget, so they can definitely afford that. They have elections by the end of the season and the management is crushing the market.

€14M include income taxes, of course, he would net around €8M per year.

[jyra]

It's unrealistic to say that the basketball division has that kind of budget. Look at last season's top earners: https://www.eurohoops.net/en/top-lis...ague-salaries/

Barca doesn't even crack the top 10 there.

[timvp]

My top 7 unrestricted free agent list was 8 before this news, to be completely honest. A little overrated but a valuable skill-set, tbh.

[timvp]

Thinking about it more, this is an example of why I kinda appreciate Samanic bailing on Europe. He's not one of these guys who has one foot in America and one foot in Europe ready to bail when the times get rough or there's an opportunity over there, tbh.

[Penya]

It's unrealistic to say that the basketball division has that kind of budget. Look at last season's top earners: https://www.eurohoops.net/en/top-lis...ague-salaries/

Barca doesn't even crack the top 10 there.

Basketball division has as much money as the club decides. They have 14 divisions and the budget for each one of them fluctuates quite often. Like I said, there's a board election in 2020 summer and the members with voting rights appreciate basketball & handball teams to be a powerhouse, not only the football division.

They've already signed Davies and Higgins, they're very likely to sign Abrines (same agent than Niko) and they will extend Heurtel's contract. They will crack the top-3 soon.

[DPG21920]

But in thinking about it, someone like Mirotic, that could actually start and possibly for MLE? That has to be a very top target IMO. Fit next to LMA has to be top priority and that is how FA should be approached assuming something really unrealistic happens.

Rudy should not be a starter and he can excel with the bench for so many reasons. This is the guy IMO or type (Morris fits that mold as well).

I’m glad that SA addressed this. I really feel getting someone that can fit next to LMA at 4 is huge. I wanted Mirotic but Morris was the perfect fit for the money. He can actually defend competently.

Allowing Rudy to rest and having a legit other Rudy is very big for the roster.