Rival owners and GMs are PISSED about the Nets

[bagelred]

Salty as fvck!

You're kinda dumb.

Suuuuuuuure David Stern is gonna investigate...lol...just like the league investigated where all Prochorov's money came from. Sure.

If it was Lakers or Knicks, it would have already been denied.

[Nets fan 93]

People never heard of taking less to join a contender? Ray Allen did it last year...I mean he expired. Didn't opt out. But the celtics offered him a nice contract.

[D12"Magic"]

So a guy who has made over $100 million in his career, decided to take a pay cut to play for a possible contender.

[Kblaze8855]

Really wouldnt bother me if true.

The Warriors once offered Nate thurmond a liquor store as a signing bonus. I wouldnt mind going back to those days. Just to get a laugh at people outraged when Lebron signs to a rap label Buss founds for him at 20 million a season while he takes the minimum to join the lakers.

[Burgz V2]

people keep saying "it's obvious" but why? Because they are both Russian? Give me a break. This is a journalist stirring the pot. A pot filled with salty GMs and sour owners.

[longtime lurker]

And outside of those two teams, who else chased Ray? Clippers did until they decided Crawford was a better fit.

Did Kaman give up $7,000,000 to be a backup?


Sterling should've just went ahead and paid Paul in dinar while signing him to a 4 year minimum

Guys give up money to play for championships all the time. Seems like the Spurs tried to work something out but the Timberwolves didn't want to comply.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--sp...052544949.html

So he was looking for 8-9 million and took a 5-6 million dollar pay cut to win a possible championship. So where are all these teams clamouring to pay him his 8 million a year he was asking?

[Nets fan 93]

What if AK-47 just really really wanted to win? LeBron and Dwade took less too right? We give players crap when they are about the money and now we give them crap when it's not about the money.

Agreed. This is what I was thinking too.
Congrats on getting Dwight Howard btw :)

[qrich]

So he gave up $6 mil to play for a championship, but passed on a team that just made the finals and was a minute or so away from winning a championship?

[3peated]

who cares, lol. scared money dont make money

[boozehound]

Agreed. This is what I was thinking too.
Congrats on getting Dwight Howard btw :)

wade took something like 500 k less. now, it may be that the market was not there for AK (I doubt it) or that he just really wanted to be in brooklyn. I would not be surprised if there are all sorts of sketchy russian endorsements (or other soft money) in line for him

[Fiasco]

Pretty much.

If this is okay, but the Clippers-Celtics agreement wasn't, then it shows the hypocrisy of the league.

Yup.

[longtime lurker]

So he gave up $6 mil to play for a championship, but passed on a team that just made the finals and was a minute or so away from winning a championship?

You read the article I posted. By all accounts the Timberwolves didn't want to help the Spurs in a sign and trade. What options does he have left?

[The JKidd Kid]

So he gave up $6 mil to play for a championship, but passed on a team that just made the finals and was a minute or so away from winning a championship?

He didnt pass, the Wolves wouldnt sign and trade him and the Spurs could only offer him less than 2 mill. The Nets were the best combination of money, contention and friends.

You want him to accept a 6 mill contract to play for the Bobcats?

[It's A VC3!!!]

Well if he isn't afraid of $80 mil in taxes then he isn't afraid of $94 mil either, so I doubt there is some foul play involved he could have payed $10 mil for Kirilenko if he wanted to and not give a shit about money&taxes.

He can't legally give AK $10 million. The Nets only had the mini-MLE available which starts at $3.2 million. The uproar is because AK opted out of a $10 million 2013-2014 season with the Bulls and took a two year deal with the Nets worth nearly $7 million. That second year is a team option so I'm 90% positive that the Nets do not pick up the option in year two per an AK request so that AK can seek a multi-year deal elsewhere after winning a championship. According to his hopes, at least.

[kamil]

I don't remember hearing this kind of backlash against the Miami Heat collusion....