Boozer double-crosses Nets. What else is new, eh?

[Hopper]

$13 million for 82 games is about $160,000 per game. When a player misses 45 games you just "threw away" over $7 million at that rate. In effect you have paid about $350,000 per game, which would amount to about $29 million a year if projected over an 82 game schedule. Businessmen always have to consider risks, even if risks, by their very nature, may not actually happen.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

$13 million for 82 games is about $160,000 per game. When a player misses 45 games you just "threw away" over $7 million at that rate. In effect you have paid about $350,000 per game, which would amount to about $29 million a year if projected over an 82 game schedule. Businessmen always have to consider risks, even if risks, by their very nature, may not actually happen.

insurance kicks in at some point too.

 

[vslice02]

This isn't a double-cross. This is called accepting the best offer.

 

[Hopper]

insurance kicks in at some point too.

Even when it finally does, I don't think it lowers your cap. But either way, you don't have a replacement player on your roster at them prices.

Boozer only averaged about 15 points/game after his injury "healed" and he came back for the final 25 games or so that year. Is this the guy you wanna be sure and lock up, for a long term at a high price, when you have a guy like the Paperboy already bein paid and waitin in line? The Jazz didn't think so. I can see why, too.

 

[richgates]

You know what would be highly comical? Chicago loses out in the LeBron sweepstakes and decides not to sign Boozer after all.

 

[Hopper]

You know what would be highly comical? Chicago loses out in the LeBron sweepstakes and decides not to sign Boozer after all.

That would be funny, but it's out of the question. There's only one side to this deal that would renege on a solemn verbal agreement, and it aint the Bulls.

 

[Stifle Tower]

I wouldn't really call that a 'double-cross'. Sounds more like a lack of courtesy.... agent probably could have given them a quick call to let them know Boozer would be accepting another offer.

Agree. What Pelinka and Boozer did was negotiate. Isn;t that what we all do when buying a car. You get the BO from one dealership, then go to another and try to better it. In this case, Pelinka probably should have notified the Nets. But he's an agent...the same one that shived a blind guy in the back. So no surprise.

 

[Stifle Tower]

They matched Paperboy AFTER they knew Booz opted in. A while after. Jazz were the ones who dropped the ball on Booz last year. Miller didn't even negotiate on extension, when Boozer's value was at all time low, we were the only ones who could make an offer, and we offered added benefit of giving him a contract while he was still under old contract, hence reducing the risk (in case he got injured in that year he opted in). We could have had Booz for a bargain. Instead jazz focused on Okur. That sure worked out well.

Are you Pelinka? The Jazz could have extended Boozer at a bargain?

What we do know is Carlos said he was getting a raise regardless. So he obviously thought his vakue was higher than $12.7M. C'mon, do you seriouisly believe Boozer would have signed anything less than a $15M-$16M extension? Pelinka and Boozer know the FA market is going to be better than ever. There are 5 marquee players and a ton of teams positioning themselves to be under the cap for 2, even 3 of those guys, including Miami, where Boozer really wants to play (friends with Wade and Arison Jr. and Sr.).

Boozer was NOT going to sign an extension without testing the market. And do you really want to sign a player to a huge deal when he's been seriously hurt 3 out of the previous 5 years? Boozer could easily turn into Elton Brand for the Bulls.

 

[Jazz4ever]

Nothing is in writing yet. If the Nets offer Booz 90 million over 5 tomorrow does anyone seeing him turning it down? He wouldn't, and it would be funny as hell.

 

[Borat]

Even when it finally does, I don't think it lowers your cap. But either way, you don't have a replacement player on your roster at them prices.

Boozer only averaged about 15 points/game after his injury "healed" and he came back for the final 25 games or so that year. Is this the guy you wanna be sure and lock up, for a long term at a high price, when you have a guy like the Paperboy already bein paid and waitin in line? The Jazz didn't think so. I can see why, too.

And you turned out to be quite wrong, no?

 

[Hopper]

And you turned out to be quite wrong, no?

Just LOVE the hindsight there, doncha, Borat?

 

[Borat]

Are you Pelinka? The Jazz could have extended Boozer at a bargain?

What we do know is Carlos said he was getting a raise regardless. So he obviously thought his vakue was higher than $12.7M. C'mon, do you seriouisly believe Boozer would have signed anything less than a $15M-$16M extension? Pelinka and Boozer know the FA market is going to be better than ever. There are 5 marquee players and a ton of teams positioning themselves to be under the cap for 2, even 3 of those guys, including Miami, where Boozer really wants to play (friends with Wade and Arison Jr. and Sr.).

Boozer was NOT going to sign an extension without testing the market. And do you really want to sign a player to a huge deal when he's been seriously hurt 3 out of the previous 5 years? Boozer could easily turn into Elton Brand for the Bulls.

After he said that about a raise, he was injured and did not produce good numbers. That's why he even accepted 1 year 12 mil dollar player option. That's 1 year deal worth 12 mil. If Jazz said - instead of 1 year 12 mil deal, you can have 6 year 70-72 mil (same amount annually as 1 year option he just accepted, but with a lot of long term security), you think Booz would have said no in that situation? I doubt it. But Jazz didn't even bother to find out. Instead Greg Miller said Booz was not even in plans. Way to go, brains of the Jazz.