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With an option for his last year
Morrison is getting 5M next year with a team option for 2010 season. And Brown is a FA next year.
With an option for his last year
That's great, but the fact remains that there's only one rookie-scale option since 2005. It requires that the final two years of every four-year rookie contract be team options. Being that Morrison was a 2006 draftee, this should mean both this current season and next year were/are team options.
If such is the case, then the Lakers hold the rights to terminate his $5 million dollar salary for next year.
even better
From the sounds of it then, Lakers in the least
1) Traded Vlad for Morrison who has 1 year less on his contract
2) Shannon Brown's 1 year contract that's up after this season
I personally hope this revitalizes Morrison, he did have a great shot and good mobility for a guy who looks like he does.
And thank God it wasn't Odom in the trade.
I could be missing something, but I'm pretty certain it's just a goof on Hoopshype's part.even better
I don't goof and by proxy neither does hoopshype
http://www.realgm.com/src_playerfile/658/adam_morrison/10/15/08: The Charlotte Bobcats exercised the 2009-10 contract options on forwards Adam Morrison and Jared Dudley.
you may apologize at your leisure
No I think you're right I remember 2 years for Bynum being team options. He's getting paid cause he was a #3 pick, but I think your right and next year is team option. Mitch is a genius.
Ooops nevermind saw they exercised it. Still a good trade for the Lakers.
We get some cap relief, we get 2 young players, added depth to our bench, and most importantly, GOT RID OF SPACEBALLS!
If the only thing it does is to get rid of Vlad off our team, then I, for one, will not look a gift horse in the mouth. I would have traded him for a pound of already chewed moldy bubble gum covered with dog sh1t...
no i think you're wrong
This might actually free up money for Odom, provided he's willing to take a paycut.
poor Vlad, not gonna enjoy the ride this season.
Not that the Lakers are winning a le or anything, but still... poor poor Rad
Yeah I saw they exercised it. Still good, we free up money a year earlier and he becomes a valuable expiring next year as well.
Well I'm not sure what to say.
You're supposed to say GREAT!!!!
Radman was in the doghouse with no door. Morrison might return to some semblance of his nationwide best 28 ppg.
It's a gamble with your money being returned back to you if you lose. Except Morrison would be in the doghouse instead of Radman.
smile the Lakers are gonna save 1.2 million
I suppose. Was this move done to resign Odom and Ariza in the off season?
I don't think so unless Morrison's gonna get traded again. He's on the books.
Lakers do save about a million though as Trainwreck points out (Morrison is a bit cheaper than Radman and Brown's contract is up this year) so it does help a bit.
Leave it to Jordan to forfeit the club options that the owners fought pretty damn hard to make a reality.
Then it looks as though the Lakers are stuck with his benched ass. WTF, Jordan? You exercised an option for two years into the future the same year the kid missed almost half the season?
He was Jordan's pick and Jordan doesn't seem to like to give up on his picks didn't he extend Kwame Brown when he was with the Wiz?
smile the Lakers are gonna save 1.2 million
Don't scoff it, that 25% of an adultery ring, so if Kobe's get caught getting a hummer from a laker girl nobody loses anything.
AM will reach his potential by playing by Kobe/Gasol
Good salary dump too MITCH!
Actually, now that I think about it, it could affect Odom and Ariza significantly.
Because the contract is shorter, this might convince Jerry Buss to bite the bullet and pay both Odom and Ariza and incur the wrath of the Luxury Tax....but only for one year.
Then after that year, Fish/Morrison's expiring would mean $20 million off the books (contract + luxury tax).
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