i mean i dont kno what happened in the talks between rod and his agent... i think rod was afraid that if he low balled him or offered him 4yr at 50 mill he woulda gone elsewhere and then we woulda had to counter offer at like 4 year 65-68 mill
just my rational for why they ended up with the figure of 4yr/60 mill... i dont think Rod Thorn is an idiot... he knows what hes doing... i have faith in thorn and always will
heh i still believe he deserved it... sorry... remember come 33yr old at 17 mill he can be a great trading chip cuz of the expiring contract.... lots of teams would jump on that
It's not a matter of whether he deserved it. We needed Vince on this team (keep in mind the context of keeping the big three together), and I think we still need him (he's still our best offensive weapon with RJ who cannot carry the team by himself). However, THRON could have offered Vince a much lower contract that would have been the highest amount given by any team in the NBA
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga @ Mar 17 2008, 11:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's not a matter of whether he deserved it. We needed Vince on this team (keep in mind the context of keeping the big three together), and I think we still need him (he's still our best offensive weapon with RJ who cannot carry the team by himself). However, THRON could have offered Vince a much lower contract that would have been the highest amount given by any team in the NBA</div> very well stated... i agree... hehe but i still love VC
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MyNetsForLife @ Mar 17 2008, 11:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That's what I've been saying </div> lol... true... but also at 17 mill it can be for a few players
i agree at the time we still needed VC... we still had championship hopes at the time with the "big 3" and krstic coming back. we thought we coulda signed a couple of free agents like allen and armstrong and compete again for a championship again. it was until our horrible start and then jason kidd starting to quit on us when VC started looking like a bad sign because we are now in rebuilding mode and VC doesn't fit that category especially with his big long term contract. But as earlier stated... at the time we had different plans and hopes when we re-signed him. I still don't mind having VC as he still makes us more entertaining to watch... and if we do move to brooklyn(god i hope we do) he's one of those type of players that will draw fans to watch us play. he still averages 20-5-5 so i don't know why he shouldn't deserve what he gets paid. joe johnson averages about the same and i believe his contract is similar and there are alot of other players who have worse contracts... so we could be in a even worse situation such as ben wallace who i believe is way overpaid... and other players who are injury prone like j'oneal. as for the move to brooklyn im all for it because im a die hard nets fan. i want us to attract more fans, more players, more sponsors, better arena, and of course the whole prospect of lebron james. I want ppl to want to play for new jersey, well brooklyn... just like how all these players USE to want to play for the knicks just because of the fans... the arena... and how it is to play at the garden. seems like management is trying too hard to try and get fans right now... when the fans should be coming to us.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (logik15 @ Mar 17 2008, 11:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>i agree at the time we still needed VC... we still had championship hopes at the time with the "big 3" and krstic coming back. we thought we coulda signed a couple of free agents like allen and armstrong and compete again for a championship again. it was until our horrible start and then jason kidd starting to quit on us when VC started looking like a bad sign because we are now in rebuilding mode and VC doesn't fit that category especially with his big long term contract. But as earlier stated... at the time we had different plans and hopes when we re-signed him. I still don't mind having VC as he still makes us more entertaining to watch... and if we do move to brooklyn(god i hope we do) he's one of those type of players that will draw fans to watch us play. he still averages 20-5-5 so i don't know why he shouldn't deserve what he gets paid. joe johnson averages about the same and i believe his contract is similar and there are alot of other players who have worse contracts... so we could be in a even worse situation such as ben wallace who i believe is way overpaid... and other players who are injury prone like j'oneal. as for the move to brooklyn im all for it because im a die hard nets fan. i want us to attract more fans, more players, more sponsors, better arena, and of course the whole prospect of lebron james. I want ppl to want to play for new jersey, well brooklyn... just like how all these players USE to want to play for the knicks just because of the fans... the arena... and how it is to play at the garden. seems like management is trying too hard to try and get fans right now... when the fans should be coming to us.</div> I rather talk about Nets' players being paid what they are worth rather than how they're contracts aren't as bad as some other bums around the league. I love the Spurs roster. Never hear about one of those guys being overpaid. Parker $10.5mm, Ginolbli $9mm. Bowen $4mm. Yeah you have Duncan at $19mm and worth every cent. Pretty cool how they get quality guys to sign on for non-max money. Hope the Nets can get to that someday. Since it was VC's 2nd contract you would think it was do able this time.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Netted @ Mar 18 2008, 09:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I rather talk about Nets' players being paid what they are worth rather than how they're contracts aren't as bad as some other bums around the league. I love the Spurs roster. Never hear about one of those guys being overpaid. Parker $10.5mm, Ginolbli $9mm. Bowen $4mm. Yeah you have Duncan at $19mm and worth every cent. Pretty cool how they get quality guys to sign on for non-max money. Hope the Nets can get to that someday. Since it was VC's 2nd contract you would think it was do able this time.</div> how do you know how much u pay someone and know what they are worth unless you compare it to other people in the league. from comparing yes we know he's overpaid, but on the bright side... it could be worst. but at the time when we needed him to maintain our core, it was the obvious choice to re-sign him. did we need to give him a max contract? who knows... but for someone to average what he did last season... its hard to disagree that he didn't deserve it. it only really seems like a really bad contract right now because we are in a rebuilding mode.
