According to the Israeli sports site www.one.co.il , former Net Boki Nachbar has signed a 3 year, 9 million euro contract with David Blatt's Dinamo Moscow. Link (HEBREW): http://www.one.co.il/Article/120160.html Rough Translation of Paragraphs 1+2: David Blatt may be busy preparing with the Russian NT for the Olympics, but that hasn't stopped him from continuing his buying spree at Dynamo Moscow for the next season. ONE learned today (Monday) of the addition of New Jersey Nets forward, Bostjan Nachbar (28, 2.06), to the team, in a huge deal worth 9 million euros over the next 3 years. A source at Dinamo Moscow has confirmed the signing, along with the signing of Hollis Price. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Only few days after Khimki Moscow signed 3-year deal with Carlos Delfino their rivals Dynamo Moscow responded with signing of another NBA small forward. Bostjan Nachbar, who played for New Jersey Nets last 2 ? seasons, will sign similar contract as Delfino. 28-year old Slovenian will play in Dynamo for next 3 years. He will earn 9 million euros. His contract includes buyout clauses after each year which will allow him to go back to NBA. Most possible season for return is 2010-11 when a lot of clubs will have enough money to spend. 206 cm forward started his pro career in Olimpija Ljubljana. Later he moved to Benneton Treviso where he soon became a star. In 2002 Houston Rockets selected him as 15th on NBA Draft. He played in Houston for 2 seasons then he was moved to New Orleans and later to New Jersey. Last year he averaged 9.8 ppg and 3.5 rpg per game.</div> http://www.talkbasket.net/news/dynamo-resp...th-nachbar.html
So I guess Dynamo was serious in stepping up efforts to compete with CSKA, and with Papaloukas gone, now's their chance...Hollis Price is a good signing, he's very good.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3497994 <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Bostjan Nachbar is the latest NBA player to choose the euro over the dollar. Nachbar has agreed to a three-year contract with Dynamo Moscow, a deal that will pay the former New Jersey Nets small forward $14.3 million, he told ESPN.com early Monday. The contract, worth 9 million euros, will include affordable buyout clauses after each season to allow him to explore the option of returning to the NBA. Nachbar said he was keeping a close eye on how the salary cap situation in the summer of 2010 will impact his prospects of returning to the league. ------- Nachbar's deal follows a fast-developing worrisome trend for some NBA executives -- based in large part on the strength of the euro against the dollar -- of European-based teams being able to outbid their NBA counterparts for free agents. Already this summer, Tiago Splitter of Brazil, a first-round pick of the Spurs in 2007, and Goran Dragic of Slovenia, a second-round pick of the Spurs in 2008 whose rights were traded to the Suns, have opted for more lucrative deals in Europe than they'd be eligible for as rookies in the NBA. And four international players with NBA experience -- Carlos Delfino, Jorge Garbajosa, Pops Mensah-Bonsu and Juan Carlos Navarro -- have accepted offers from European teams that easily trumped the money NBA teams were willing to offer. "The NBA had better be careful," Nachbar said. "European teams are offering a lot of money. It's much more, considering there are no taxes, than what I could make signing for the mid-level exception."</div> Can't say I can blame him...gets all the money tax free, and if he wants to go back to the NBA he can. It's going to be interesting to see how this keeps playing out
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid Chocolate @ Jul 21 2008, 02:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>So I guess Dynamo was serious in stepping up efforts to compete with CSKA, and with Papaloukas gone, now's their chance...Hollis Price is a good signing, he's very good.</div> Dynamo have added some quality players, but so have CSKA (Planinic, Lorbek, etc.). As I've already said before, the Russian league will be VERY interesting next season.
