Yeah, and I'm even willing to stipulate that is likely to be the case but, unless we're talking about a turnaround of epic proportions, numbers are roughly the same. Take 1 euro ~~ 1.2 dollars for the next 4 years, and the rookie scale for Splitter translates to 690K euros a year after taxes. Same reasoning @ an average of 1 dollar per euro for the next 4 years, rounds up 825K euros a year after taxes. So basically he's guaranteed to lose more than a million / million and a half euros a year for 4 years, so he'll have to make 8 / 9 million dollars a year in the NBA for a minimum of 4 / 5 years for the reward to be worth the risk, and he'll have to wait 8 years to break even, by which time he'll be over 30. So while that may very well be the case, I think the financial benefit of making the transition to the NBA in cases like his is quite overrated.