Nicolas Batum has reached agreement with Charlotte on a five-year $120 mi

[Ramza]

What a time to be a role player

[Meticode]

mozgov contract suddenly looks like a steal lol

Except Batum is 3x the palyer Mozgov is.

[SwishSquared]

This deal won't look great on the backend, but Batum wanted 5 years to stay in Charlotte. They at least got him to take less than his full max. I probably would have preferred to give him a 4-year full max if I were Charlotte actually.

This was big for the Hornets though. When they traded for him, I thought there was a large chance it was for a rental. Good for them to retain their most important FA>

[greymatter]

This is exactly what I predicted was going to happen with marginally above average, but clearly not AS caliber players. Their salaries are bloating out of control and this is going to create a huge underclass where you wind up with your bench being filled entirely with players making around league or veteran's minumum, plus mid-level exception.

Batum's PER was 15.7 this past season and was 70th in estimated wins added (EWA), yet he's getting 24M a year.

This isn't the player's fault, but the bottom line is that it only takes one idiot ass GM/owner to overpay for mediocre talent and it causes an avalanche. There's going to be a huge influx of horrible contracts and a lot of stupid teams that are going to be both paying heavy luxury taxes while having shitty 1st round playoff fodder caliber lineups. Hornets = that category. Either Rich Cho is as retarded as Michael Jordan or Jordan basically breathed down his neck to force him to make a shitty signing.

[midatlantic09]

Batum doesn't really move the needle at all, but with the cap at $94 million, teams like Charlotte basically have to give the money away since they have very few high cost players.

[Derka]

8 years in the league, hasn't made a single All-Star team...$24 million per year.

Think you can pencil us in for another lockout in the future.

[SCdac]

Damn, I'd take the money and run! Great player but 120 mil is steep

[Cap'n Obvious]

That is a lot more money than he would have been able to make in the past.

[Finger Roll]

Its an alright signing with the way things are going these days....


its just messed up. I heard some report the other day about 400K going towards helping at risk Toronto youth from reoffending (something like that).
--that seems kinda sad when you think about how many people that accounts for

Meanwhile that's about what Demar gets for playing basketball and being idolized.

I realize the moneys being made and the owners can afford it, but to the casual observer, it's gotta be off putting to see salaries like this.

[KiiiiNG]

This to me is the worst deal of all... Nicolas Batum ****ing SUCKS! He's a turnover machine, inefficient as hell, and an overall stiff. Injury prone too. He'll have weird nagging injuries all year... which thus makes him even more worthless. People thought he'd have a break-out year once he left Portland... but he is what we thought he was.... a scrub. 24 ****ing million for five years.