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it won't, holt can barely afford to pay the spurs, plus he needs that extra money for his booze
That's wrong on so many levels.
Wrong? What's wrong about it? Oh, I see, Holt is viewing this thread so I should apologize right? Or, i'm not permitted to laugh at jokes since this isn't a democracy. Or, .....or I could act like i actually care about what you say....
It's wrong because he can afford to pay the Spurs AND buy all the booze he wants.
Whether he actually does is subject to speculation in which I will not participate.
Exactly. How many of his fellow NBA owners would balk at paying the lux tax to improve a championship team? To have the sweetheart arena deal he enjoys? To not have players causing off court criminal drama? etc
Splitter and his Paella eating ass!! Let that er stay in Spain. What we need to start drafting is some Americans! Or how about that Mexican kid who crossed over kobe and then shot a 3 in his face in the Olympic game a few years ago? Is he available?
Most of them.
That's just the way it is.
If the man is cheap what can we ever do? At least there is a great product already out there. Also, a very classy product at that. I'm sure he can afford an extra 15Mil on the Lux though. We need it now more than ever.
Even if they were willing, ownership would be hard pressed to reach an $85 million payroll next season
Yeah. I'm resigned to that fact. It's like the nonsensical ing about RC. All in all, RC's done a fine job as GM. Yes, there are some points you can hit him on, but given the constraints he's done a very good job. It is what it is. If the championship era is really over and you're a fan only because you expect to cheer on a championship team every season then you should probably talk with a professional about that.
a nice post -I think the guy is signing this two year contract as insurance. He is getting his money now so when he comes over later there are no what if scenarios. What if he gets over here and Pop sticks him in the doghouse? What if he comes over here and gets hurt etc.That big money after his rookie deal disappears and he is ass out. He is doing the right thing. Me first the Spurs second. It sucks as a fan but he has kids to feed.Look at Beno for example. He struggled as a Spur and got stuck in Pops basement. Nobody wanted to touch him this past summer and it was under the assumption that he couldn't play. The Kings took a chance and he looked like Tony Parker this year for them and is looking at a nice payday this summer. The kid seems like he just wants to get set financially before he steps into an alien environment and a big pay cut.
Let me add that Tau is owning the Spurs since the Scola issue. The Spurs tried getting Scola in before 2008 but the BO clause was the dagger.
European clubs are getting smarter about the NBA now. They have their currency at their favor and most of all, they aren't going to get rid of their work like that and give them away for free. They figured out the NBA was making them spend money and resources building up their guys and with zero investment the idea was to bring them over to the NBA offering the maximum allowed by the league. So you would spend all of that to have the guy later on snatched by a foreign club.
This is a no-brainer for Splitter and his family - we can forget about him now unless the spurs pay him the 900K now and commit (in writing) to sign him in 2009-2010 for 5 years with guarantee x amount of millions of dollars. If they can't guarantee this they its all over.
Where there is a will etc......
The exchange rate is an issue, but the major issue is the rookie scale.
If I have 200 millions I would make an offer to buy the franchise.. you Chump would be my GM. what do you think? we go Cuban on all these guys.
Unfortunately, that amount wouldn't get you halfway to a purchase price.
Yeah, Holt's sitting on a nice cap gain.
Come on! you wouldn't ask for a huge salary I guess!
I would be extraordinarily cheap, relatively speaking. Let me know when you get the cash.
It doesn't matter if Holt were the richest man in the world. Splitter's salary is slotted and pre-determined by the NBA Rookie Scale. It has nothing to do with Holt. Splitter had no choice but to accept the Tau offer since it is 8X the salary he was slotted to receive from his rookie contract. Holt couldn't pay him more if he wanted to because the rules prohibit it. The same thing is happening with the Blazers and Rudy Fernandez.
heb contract ;/
The players union and the NBA are going to have to get together this summer to decide what to do with the rookie salary cap.
The problem is the definition of "rookie". Is a guy who is already a pro for several years outside the US a rookie? can you compare him with a guy fresh off HS or College? That's the sweet in it - US teams were grabbing European players with zero investment in grooming them. Europe just got smarter.
If the league will continue to allow US teams to get players overseas then they need not apply that rule to those players. They can leave it for College and HS in the US.
It is NOT a ROOKIE scale or cap, it is a draft cap, and only players drafted in the first round are suceptible to it.
For instance, Luis Scola was a rookie, but he earned about 2.9 million, which is a lot more than players drafted late in the first round could get.
Something has to be done about players that are already pros elsewhere, and it may mean that a lot of USA high school players forgoe college and go straight to the Euroleagues instead of the NCAA....
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I'm all for that. If you don't plan on getting an education why waste your time?
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