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Boozer Agrees to Terms With Bulls (5 yrs/80 mil)

prodigal punk said:
If DWill thinks this was a good contract, so long. This is going to burden Chicago for a while. Especially when he only plays in 65% of the games he's under contract for.
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It might burden Chicago. But that doesn't change the fact Utah will still be worse off than they were with Boozer.

Williams isn't going to stick around and wait patiently as the Jazz try to get the talent needed to return to where they were last year.
 
I think it is very possible to both be unhappy about losing a good player like Boozer, but still recognizing that the Jazz could not match that offer. I'm worried about the team next year and worried about what this may mean for Deron when his contract comes up. But that doesn't change the fact that this contract would have hurt the Jazz just as much as the Kirilenko contract has over the last few years.

To those spouting off about a sign & trade, Chicago got their guy for what they were offering. They don't need to give away any players ... and certainly not anyone we would want.
 
Sean said:
It might burden Chicago. But that doesn't change the fact Utah will still be worse off than they were with Boozer.

Williams isn't going to stick around and wait patiently as the Jazz try to get the talent needed to return to where they were last year.
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So, you would have paid Boozer $80mil for 5 years? That is ridiculous. I understand the pessimism, but how about being realistic. Nevermind, the fact that saying the team will be worse is nothing but pure speculation.
 
mrob said:
To those spouting off about a sign & trade, Chicago got their guy for what they were offering. They don't need to give away any players ... and certainly not anyone we would want.
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It can still benefit them to ditch a small contract AND give Boozer a smaller starting salary (but still 5 years $80M). That way Bulls are sure they have room to keep a max offer open to LBJ.

The benefit to the Jazz is the TPE.
 
All the Jazz gotta do to square thangs with Deron is to put his ole homeboy, Jimma Augustine, on the books for about a haffa million a year, I figure.
 
Booze will digress from 20-11 to a 16-8 guy in Chicago. Especially with Noah showing more balls on defense and hustling. He'll never be an allstar while hes there. Our system fit him perfectly and maxed out his potential... it was essentially take away Malone and insert Boozer. We'll be the same team next year, although we need to resign Matthews definitely and consider bringing Korver back. All the good minimum players will be headed to Miami, NYK, and Chicago so we need to scout some gems in summer league and pre-season.
We need to look into having someone else take Memo off of our hands, because we might as well keep AK since he's off the books in a year, and can be resigned for 35% of what he is making (maybe).
We don't need to rebuild at this point, we just need a tune-up.
Deron is still the best point in the league, so never count us out.
 
Okur was extended for two years and 20 million. Not quite the 5 years and 80 million he got. What makes you think he would have taken 12 million a year when he knew a lot of teams were going to be under the cap. The year before he opted into his contract because there were almost no teams under the cap. The Okur signing at the time did not seem that bad. I dont think KOC had a crystal ball that he was going to tear his achilles. We were -2 with Boozer on the court last year. For every two points he scores he gives up two. I recall us playing quite well without him two years ago when Millsap started. I find it ironic that someone complaining about 2years and 20 million thinks we should pay Boozer 16 million a year for 5 years.
Borat said:
Boozer accepted 1 year 12 mil dollar offer right before that. Why did he do that you think after he was saying he was going to get a raise regardless? Because his value was at all time low. if Jazz came in with 5 year 60 mill extension, he would have to seriously consider. There is no way he could possibly demand 80 mil after just accepting 1 year 12 mil and coming off poor season and with no one else to make an offer, and with Jazz offering long term security before his deal is even over. But Jazz didn't attempt to negotiate. They told Booz to screw himself. Now that Booz had 20 and 11 season, 20 and 13 play-offs, and Jazz have no leverage at all, with several teams looking at him, of course his value is A LOT higher than last summer when he had a poor year and only Jazz could have given him contract. Greg Miller was the guy who fumbled the ball here when he told Booz to screw himself and instead extended Memo. Well, guess who is screwed now? It certainly ain't Booz, that's for sure.
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