Dallas guard Steve Nash (UNR) to Phoenix for $66 million over six years. Cleveland forward Carlos Boozer ® to Utah for $68 million over six years. Miami guard Rafer Alston (UNR) to Toronto for $28 million over five years. Seattle guard Brent Barry (UNR) to San Antonio for $23 million over four years. Boston center Mark Blount (UNR) staying with the Celtics for $38 million over six years. San Antonio forward Bruce Bowen (UNR) staying with the Spurs for $12 million over three years. Denver center Marcus Camby (UNR) staying with the Nuggets for $60 million over six years. Golden State forward Brian Cardinal (UNR) to Memphis for $37 million over six years. Dallas guard Marquis Daniels ® staying with the Mavericks for $38 million over six years. Denver center Michael Doleac (UNR) to Miami for $12 million over four years. Golden State center Adonal Foyle (UNR) staying with the Warriors for $42 million over six years. San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili ® staying with the Spurs for $52 million over six years. Minnesota guard Troy Hudson (UNR) staying with the Timberwolves for $31 million over five years. Atlanta swingman Stephen Jackson (UNR) to Indiana for $38 million over six years (in a sign-and-trade deal for Al Harrington). Phoenix forward Antonio McDyess (UNR) to Detroit for $23 million over four years. Detroit forward Mehmet Okur ® to Utah for $50 million over six years. LA Clippers guard Quentin Richardson ® to Phoenix for $48 million over six years. Milwaukee forward Brian Skinner (UNR) to Philadelphia for $25 million over five years. Washington center Etan Thomas ® to Milwaukee for $37 million over six years. Spurs swingman Hedo Turkoglu ® to Orlando for $37 million over six years. Utah swingman Gordan Giricek ® staying with the Jazz for $16 million over four years. Utah guard Carlos Arroyo ® staying with the Jazz for $16 million over four years. Atlanta center Jason Collier (UNR) staying with the Hawks for $3.2 million over two years.
Some of those deals are absolutely outrageous. Just to touch on a few here real quick. Firstly, Mehmek Okur, is by no means a $50 million player. He may be worth half of that at max. I don't understand why you give someone such a huge deal who hasn't proven anything as of yet in his NBA career. Than we have Marcus Camby. Someone who hardly plays more than 60 games a year is getting $60 mil for staying healthy and averaging 8.7 ppg and getting somewhere around 10 rebs. To me, that's not $60 million quality, especially if you consider the fact that you can never guarantee he's going to play a lot of games. That's a risky, overpaid deal right there to me. Than we have Adonal Foyle. He only played in 44 games last year, starting 8 of them. He averaged just over 3 ppg and just under 3 rpg. He's getting $42 mil for those stats. What the hell is the management coming to? Those are, by no means, good enough stats to get him that much money. And if they're going by career points, it still makes no sense. He's averaging less than 5 ppg for his career and his best season, he only averaged 5.9 ppg. The only reason they could possibly be giving him this much money is cause they know they're going to lose Dampier and they want to keep some type of a big man around. That's the only reason, and even than, I still don't think he's worth that damn much money. It's just not right. Than, the last one I'll touch on for now is Ginobli. I realize that he is a great player and had a good season, but, I don't know if he's worth $52 mil. Considering that it's likely he could still come off the bench next year with the resigning of Bowen, I don't know if a bench player is worth almost $9 million a year. They must be making that deal just to make sure he sticks around so they can start him in a couple years, because, unless they have intentions on starting him this year, I find no reason to give him so much money.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Sasha:</div><div class="quote_post">Where did you get all this information?</div> http://www.justbball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21345 http://www.justbball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21340
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Sasha:</div><div class="quote_post">Where did you get all this information?</div> Chad Ford, ESPN.Com
If Denver keep Camby playing around 30 mins a game, I see no reason why he won't be as healthy as he was this past season.
