Reggie Jackson agrees to an extension with the Detriot Pistons; $80M/5 years

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I'm not saying he's not worth it, but who's bidding for Reggie Jackson? This opens the door for Brandon Jennings, who will be expiring next season, to be a trade asset to a team (say Houston) looking for a PG.

He's not close to worth that....and when you combine that with the fact that the Pistons had all the leverage...

Just terrible.

16 a year? He absolutely went on a tear after being traded to Detroit. It seems like it's the right system for him. I think in Van Gundy's system he'll play up to his contract.

There should be a documentary of this year's offseason focusing on the crazy amount of players who got overpaid. I mean c'mon! Reggie Jackson DOES NOT deserve $16m a year! :oldlol:

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[QUOTE=longtime lurker]16 a year? He absolutely went on a tear after being traded to Detroit. It seems like it's the right system for him. I think in Van Gundy's system he'll play up to his contract.[/QUOTE]
let this sink in.

Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year.

More money than Westbrook :pimp:

[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]let this sink in.

Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year.[/QUOTE]

Demare Carroll is making 15 a year. Deandre Jordan is making 20. There have been worse overpays

Well Knight got 5 for 70, so...

Damn Mr. October could now purchase the entire city with that.....:applause:

Uhm, who exactly drove his price up? Also considering the amount of teams with cap space and needed a PG upgrade at this stage of FA was very few.

Detroit didn't even use their leverage here at all. Reggie's a good player and a long-term deal was smart to secure, but I think they could have gotten him for even less. Cap's going up, so whatever, but the event that they wanted more future cap space, this deal kinda foils that.

Drummond is extension eligible this offseason right?

Reggie, Stanley, and Andre. DEETTTRRRRRRRRROIIIIIIIITTTTTTTT BAAASSSSSSSKKKKKKEEETTTTTBAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!

Uh... Ok. He did play well after being traded, but 16m a year good? Not sure..

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[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]let this sink in.

Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year.[/QUOTE]
let this sink in.

Michael Jordan made $3.8M in 1996.

Obviously I don't love the deal, but that's the NBA market right now whether you like it or not. What drove his price up? The Goran Dragic and Brandon Knight deals, it's right inbetween them, that's the market man, it is what it is. They're rolling the dice on his potential and their ability to develop him into a star PG. In a couple years every NBA starter signed after the TV deal will be getting 16 Million a year or more, that's just how it goes.

All I can do is hope they are right about his potential. He certainly looked good with us once he found his bearings, averaging 17 PPG, 9 APG, 4.7 RPG after the All-Star break, 27 games. Hopefully he can continue where he left off and continue to improve under SVG's development.

Didn't we have a lockout because of shit like this?

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[QUOTE=SpecialQue]Didn't we have a lockout because of shit like this?[/QUOTE]
We had a lockout because owners wanted a [U]stricter salary cap to allow smaller market teams to compete[/U], while on the other hand players wanted a bigger salary cap to increase their earning potential.

So no, this isn't the same.

[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]let this sink in.

[B]Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year[/B].[/QUOTE]
This needed quoted for the WTF-ness

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]let this sink in.

Michael Jordan made $3.8M in 1996.[/QUOTE]
:biggums:

Shaun Powell ‏@Powell2daPeople 2 minutes ago
[I]Reggie Jackson's making roughly the same money as Russell Westbrook, the guy he once backed up.[/I]

[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]:biggums:[/QUOTE]
That's because Mike was dumb and signed an 8yr deal.

[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]let this sink in.

Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year.[/QUOTE]

Mind blowing :lol

:roll:

What a terrible contact for the Pisstons. Jesus.

[QUOTE=Hey Yo]Shaun Powell ‏@Powell2daPeople 2 minutes ago
[I]Reggie Jackson's making roughly the same money as Russell Westbrook, the guy he once backed up.[/I][/QUOTE]
Breaking News: New TV Deal projected to increase future salary caps by tens of millions of dollars.

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]Breaking News: New TV Deal projected to increase future salary caps by tens of millions of dollars.[/QUOTE]
Breaking News:

Westbrook under contract for 2 more years at about 34mil

Reggie (Mr. not anything) Jackson will be making a little less those 2yrs

Who would you rather have for the next 2yrs?

Just when I thought the Central was getting Eazy E real motha f'in G's hard glad to see Motown overpay for this scrub.

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]let this sink in.

Michael Jordan made $3.8M in 1996.[/QUOTE]


That was pre-9/11, pre-Housing market crash, that would be like $10-12 mil easy in today's money. Slowly but surely the players are getting more of the owners share that they deserve.0

[QUOTE=Hey Yo]Breaking News:

Westbrook under contract for 2 more years at about 34mil

Reggie (Mr. not anything) Jackson will be making a little less those 2yrs

Who would you rather have for the next 2yrs?[/QUOTE]
Westbrook will be making upwards of $30M per year when the cap hits $100M because he's been in the league between 7-9 and players in that circle can get max contracts up to 30% of the league salary cap.

$5M/year would have been a fair amount... not 16

[QUOTE=ReturnofJPR]That was pre-9/11, pre-Housing market crash, that would be like $10-12 mil easy in today's money. Slowly but surely the players are getting more of the owners share that they deserve.0[/QUOTE]
:biggums:

What does 9/11 and the Market Crash have to do about an NBA salary? The only time the cap changes is when there's a complication with salaries between players and owners, mainly do to a large income coming into the league be it a TV Deal or whatever.

[QUOTE=FireMcFailPlease]let this sink in.

Reggie Jackson is making $16,000,000 a year.[/QUOTE]

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WTF !!!!

Barry f'kn Sanders never even made that much.

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]Westbrook will be making upwards of $30M per year when the cap hits $100M because he's been in the league between 7-9 and players in that circle can get max contracts up to 30% of the league salary cap.[/QUOTE]
Let me just bump this for the retards that don't get the new cap.

It should've been eighteen, eighty

:banghead:

This isn"t a baseball forum right?
And Mr. October wasn't time travelled to the present time, right?

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]:biggums:

What does 9/11 and the Market Crash have to do about an NBA salary? The only time the cap changes is when there's a complication with salaries between players and owners, mainly do to a large income coming into the league be it a TV Deal or whatever.[/QUOTE]


Inflation.

[QUOTE=Fallen Angel]Westbrook will be making upwards of $30M per year when the cap hits $100M because he's been in the league between 7-9 and players in that circle can get max contracts up to 30% of the league salary cap.[/QUOTE]
but until then......who would you rather have the next 2yrs at nearly the same $$$$?

[QUOTE=Hey Yo]but until then......who would you rather have the next 2yrs at nearly the same $$$$?[/QUOTE]
The MVP Candidate.

Do you not understand that the Pistons are making this move in light of the new CBA?

Grasp this.

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This is what was negotiated in the most recent CBA lockout in 2011. So barring another lockout and a change to occur in this graph, then a guy like Reggie Jackson in two years (when the salary cap jumps to $100M) could earn up to $20M from another team from a max contract, but because Detroit has his Bird Rights he would earn 7.5% more than that. So that's $21.5M Reggie Jackson could have had in the new CBA.

So if you're squeamish about his contract right now, then I couldn't imagine how you'd feel if you saw what he could have earned.

$21.5M vs. $16M

I'd take giving Reggie Jackson the $80M over 5 years now than giving him $107.5M over five years when the cap increases.

Quick someone tell OKC fans they just traded away another allstar