OT John Calipari Seeks 10-Year, $120M Contract For NBA Return

http://basketball.realgm.com/wireta...i-Seeks-10-Year-$120M-Contract-For-NBA-Return


For NBA teams interested in hiring John Calipari, they have been told his asking price is 10 years and $120 million.

Calipari currently earns $8 million to $9 million per season at Kentucky and wouldn't leave that job for just an incremental raise.

Calipari turned down a 10-year, $80 million-plus offer from the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014 and he told the Sacramento Kings last spring it would take an offer with an annual average of more than $11 million.

The offer from the Cavaliers serves as a baseline and he seeks the $12 million per season Phil Jackson makes from the New York Knicks.

Calipari has also been linked to the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets hired Calipari in the 1990s with a five-year, $15 million contract when he came from UMass.

 

He'll come back, suck ass for a couple years, get fired, and then collect millions while he goes back to college and kicks ass.

 

Hell, I'll do it for one year and 1 million dollars. Easy money.

 

If Stotts and Neil wanted to bring him in would you be pissed?

 

Yes. 10 years? No.

 

I will say I think he's very cute and might be gay.

 

He and Neil look like they could be brothers.

 

Pass

 

Neil's hot too, especially when he was on Portlandia.

 

Well then the Blazers should hire him. You can start a thread titled "I just slept with an NBA coach"

Where's your "I slept with an NBA television crew employee" thread anyway?

 

What the hell that is so much money to pay a coach...Is this guy crazy or what?

Anyone dumb enough to pay him that deserves what they probably have coming. Look how well its working out for the Knicks paying Phil that, and what has he done so far?

 

I can't believe he didn't take it!! Getting paid $80m to "coach" Lebron James? Calipari must be a greedy son of a b, and that's never good...

Edit: I had to go and read more about this because it's such a wtf moment, this is what he claims in an ESPN article, but I take this with a grain of salt.

 

I'm thinking he's happy at Kentucky but he's getting offers. So he's throwing out crazy numbers to see who might bite and make it worthwhile to change jobs. But I'm having a hard time believing that he's really serious. Though if someone plays along and gives him that much money and that many years, he'd be crazy not to take it.....at least as crazy as whoever might be willing to meet his terms....

 

I mean.... if I was coaching Kentucky, I was getting all the best talent, I had complete control over my destiny, I have all the power over the players because they're kids with scholarships and not pros with massive contracts..... I don't think I'd leave. There's a reason why Coach K never left Duke. The guy has a lifetime contract. He is consistently successful. He always has top tier talent. Why go to the NBA where you're always the scapegoat? How many top tier college coaches have gone to the NBA and succeeded in the last 20 years? It's the same reason why Nick Saban will probably never leave Alabama, and it's the same reason why Chip should have never left Oregon.

 

At least half of that money should be paid to the players. Divide it among about 12-15 players, and the $400K annual income would be a fortune to the poor families.

I'm usually against professionalizing college sports, but coaches' salaries, proving that colleges make giant profits, give me pause.

 

Calipari failed in the Defensive Era of the NBA. The game has changed a lot since the late 90's and I think he would be a fantastic coach now...That said the numbers of 10 years $120 mill is his way of saying "Not interested"