Kleiza Signs $12.2M Deal With Olympiakos
[quote]Linas Kleiza has agreed to a two-year, $12.2 million with an opt-out next year with Olympiakos, a source told Marc Spears of Yahoo!
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Excellent pickup, better than Childress IMO.
Papaloukas/Teodosic
Wafer/Halperin
Childress/Vasilopoulos
Kleiza/Vujcic/Erceg
Bourousis/Glyniadakis/Schortsanitis
Not a fan of the Wafer signing, but this one will give them a huge boost. Next step is to pick up an NBA point guard or someone like McIntyre or Arroyo to play in front of Papaloukas.
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The Nuggets better hurry and find a backup SF b4 they're all taken or re-signed
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kleiza hit some big 3s when the nuggs needed it last playoffs. big loss imo
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Love it. Keep those international signings coming. The NBA will be a shell of its former self.
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[QUOTE=bagelred]Love it. Keep those international signings coming. The NBA will be a shell of its former self.[/QUOTE]
Like the NBA doesn't sign the European players :hammerhead: I like Kleiza but the league will do fine without him... He's only a bench player. The day a high level player leaves for Europe then we can get worried.
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[QUOTE=Ramza]kleiza hit some big 3s when the nuggs needed it last playoffs. big loss imo[/QUOTE]
big loss? he had a nice game or two...with about 50 average to below average ones.
for 6.1 mill per i could care less. hes not worth half of that. way overrated by this board who probably have seen him play 1-2 games at most (one of which was his 40 point game vs utah a few years ago).
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$12.2 million will buy a lot of Ouzo (very tasty and potent Greek drink). Maybe after a year or two in Greece, Kleiza may have honed his skills and will be ready to return to the Nuggets, who retain his rights. Now the Nuggets should pursue a reliable and consistent PF/C and a 3rd PG, maybe Pruitt or Taylor as PGs.
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LK isn't worth even close to that amount. Good riddance.
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[QUOTE=knickballer]Like the NBA doesn't sign the European players :hammerhead: I like Kleiza but the league will do fine without him... He's only a bench player. The day a high level player leaves for Europe then we can get worried.[/QUOTE]
Dominique Wilkins, Bob McAdoo are notable HOFers who left for the Euroleague.
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Good news for the Nuggs.
I am impressed by his offensive skills but dude is a horrible defender. A liability in defense. Softy.
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[QUOTE=Pokerface]$12.2 million will buy a lot of Ouzo (very tasty and potent Greek drink). Maybe after a year or two in Greece, Kleiza may have honed his skills and will be ready to return to the Nuggets, who retain his rights. Now the Nuggets should pursue a reliable and consistent PF/C and a 3rd PG, maybe Pruitt or Taylor as PGs.[/QUOTE]
:roll: @ Kleiza refining his skills, just a summer ago the Nuggets didnt want to include him in a deal for Ron Artest. And there were people on here against Kleiza even being traded.
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Give it another 20 years and the EuroLeague will probably become the top basketball league in the world.
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[QUOTE=bagelred]Give it another 20 years and the EuroLeague will probably become the top basketball league in the world.[/QUOTE]
not with the NBA going global. They are scouting for players in india right now.
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I don't know how he's going to get playing time under coach Yannakis, who preaches defensive effort first and foremost:confusedshrug: Knowing him and his principles, Kleiza will probably sit on the bench most of the time...