I gotta keep this board going! I'm going easy on you guys! I'm being careful not to monopolize the board! Why, you want me to post 10 times as much? No prob!
HCP took my side! Must be because I've been holding back the wife jokes for a month or two. I figured him out! I got him twisted around my little finger.
No, I think it was because after I told him when the season's cancelled and he needs dough, I got some grapes in my back yard for his family to pick, and he didn't answer, I only repeated it once in another thread and then I stopped. HCP is a very sensitive man and I'm the only one on the board who understands him. I probably understand him better than his own wife. But that's as far as it goes. No, I know what you're thinking, no way.
Hey Zaggy, you weren't referring to my near-absence on the OT board, were you? I can't keep up with all those intellectuals posting so much so I read about 1/8 or so of the threads. By the way, how's your ass doing? My leg hurts and I can't walk.
Italy is offering Kobe $800K before tax or $600K after tax. That's per game, not per month. The Lakers pay him way less than half that much, $310K per game before tax is deducted. http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/32129249 So Europe not only pays more for D-League talent, they pay more for NBA stars, too! Take that, Golliver!
Here's a list of all the NBA-ers who have actually signed to play abroad (forgot that Nic wasn't the only Blazer). A lot of those salaries are much higher than I would've guessed! Teams in Turkey seem to be particularly loaded. Vujacic and Farmar - they're getting paid MUCH more than they would get in the US! Krstic too.
Those salaries are what they are making on there NBA contracts not what the team is paying them. A lot of those clubs cannot afford huge offers for more then 1 season. Seems like a lot of clubs are trying to jump on making there club popular with an NBA level talent for this year and hoping those fans come back for the next years.
At the top of this page you can click on Going overseas | Interested in overseas | Not interested in overseas http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6793510/nba-overseas-player-movement At the bottom is another good link, NBA players sorted by national teams. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6803228/nba-2011-national-team-participants
These guys absolutely have a right to earn a living somewhere doing what they're best at, so good for LMA and hopefully he doesn't injure himself.
