[Chron] Rockets Match, Landry is a Rocket

durvasa · Sep 25, 2008

Richard Justice is reporting that the Rockets will sign Landry for the offer extended yesterday by the Bobcats.

The Rockets on Thursday matched the offer that the Charlotte Bobcats made to Carl Landry, the Chronicle's Richard Justice reports.

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Thursday morning's report on Carl Landry:

The Rockets’ long, difficult negotiation stalemate with restricted free agent Carl Landry is over.

Now comes the tough part.

With next week’s start of training camp bearing down, Landry on Wednesday signed an offer sheet for a contract worth $9 million over three seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats. The last season of the contract is at the team’s option. If the Rockets wish to retain Landry, they have up to one week from the receipt of the offer sheet to match the proposal.

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After three quiet months, the Rockets needed less than 24 hours match the Charlotte Bobcats' offer sheet and retain second-year forward Carl Landry.

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said Thursday that the team would match the offer, worth $9 million over three years. He said it came in within the range he had budgeted.

"We're going to match," Morey said. "I think we had a long time to talk about what we felt like we wanted to do with Carl and this fell within that. It was an easy decision. We want to get Carl in, get the physical done and get him in time for training camp."

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And Friedman gives this write up on Rockets.com:

HOUSTON - After months of speculation, the Carl Landry saga has finally reached its conclusion. The verdict: The explosive second-year forward will indeed be donning Rockets' red once again.

Less than twenty four hours after the Charlotte Bobcats signed Landry to a three year offer sheet - with the third year being a team option - Rockets GM Daryl Morey announced that Houston will match the deal.

"We’re really excited to have him back," Morey says. "We wanted to sign him long-term out of the draft last year; because we didn’t have mid-level we weren’t able to get that done. So now we’re excited to get that done and we’re going to have a great set of players in for training camp.

"We had a lot of time obviously to think about what range of money we would match and this fell into that. Also, training camp coming Monday, we want to get him in here and get the physical finished and get him here starting Monday for camp. There was a chance that this could drag out and we didn’t want that to happen. We felt like we had to get Carl in at a number that didn’t hurt our ability to maneuver long-term and we feel like this does that, so we were willing to wait and I’m pleased. I’ve said all along that it’d be nice if someone would just sign him so we could match and get this over with."

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DynastYWarrioR6 · Sep 25, 2008

Expected this. Good move by the organization.

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