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Dante Exum: shoulder injury

Zombie said:
Particularly with him coming off a huge injury. Can anyone point to an example of a team overpaying to sign away an oft injured young player that hasn't proven anything in the league?

I mean, don't get me wrong I like Dante and think he has the potential to be a special player, but why would a GM take that kind of risk? It just doesn't make sense.

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Mavs gave Wes Mathews a big contract after an achilles but I can see your point.
 
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People want to give him 10 million a year for 4 years on this board? If a team offers him that, you let him walk. I'm thinking, at best, a 1 + 1 player option. He's going to miss ANOTHER full year of basketball. He's probably 1 injury away from no one even looking at him sadly
 
Shad said:
People want to give him 10 million a year for 4 years on this board? If a team offers him that, you let him walk. I'm thinking, at best, a 1 + 1 player option. He's going to miss ANOTHER full year of basketball. He's probably 1 injury away from no one even looking at him sadly
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1. He just turned 22.
2. Dante is by all accounts a good kid. Let's show some loyalty and faith by giving him money and assuming he won't get hurt.
 
I wouldn't be opposed to giving Dante an extension but it was pups have to be at a steep discount... pre-injury his market may have been 4/40, so maybe I'd go 4/28 with the last year a team option.

None of it has to do with being loyal or him being a good kid. Just I think it could be a bargain when he gets back.

This injury is not career ending and nowhere near as catastrophic as the knee injury.
 
MVP said:
lol, what many things he sacrificed? Did not go to university to become an accountant? or engineer? You guys are so out of touch. Any of you would give your current career just to have what Dante has now, don't even lie to yourself. Get paid guaranteed millions for playing a game + 5 month paid vacation. Sounds like a dream to me.
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Don't take this the wrong way MVDouche but you are coming across as an envious heartless ****. Just because someone has money they don't go thru emotional & personal struggles ?
And you really think these guys don't give up a lot and sacrifice to get to where they are ?? Kk
 
jope said:
just rejoining this topic, so is he out for the year then?
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Last I heard they're going thru the process of getting a couple more opinions to see if here's any posssible course of action that doesn't involve losing the whole season. I'm assuming the initial advice was surgery which means out for season.
 
b_line said:
I don't know how much you know about shoulders, but I have always thought and read that AC separations are far more dangerous nowadays than a dislocation. In fact, some players with dislocations come back same game and play after a dislocation. Not the same joint, but remember when Wade dislocated Rondo's elbow in the finals, and Rondo was only out for like 5 minutes?
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Not true. Every case is different but shoulder dislocations are typically much more serious than ac separation.

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Fwiw, the entire city of Houston is collectively depressed after the Watt injury. Its like if John Stockton had gone down with a career ending injury in his prime. Sucks to see Dante go down but watching everyone around me crestfallen really puts his injury in perspective.
 
stitches said:
They have no say in it. Unless they give Dante what he wants.
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Inigo Montoya must be rubbing off on you in stating the obvious. Nobody is saying Utah can force him not to take the QO.

Like I have posted before, Utah will take some risk with an overpay, with the idea that Dante will live up to his contract, in order to avoid Dante becoming unrestricted in one year. And Dante, who has now suffered 2 serious injuries, is not going to turn down 35-40 million to gamble on more money. He just watched George Hill get torched by turning down money, and the entire league is aware of what happened with Noel.
 
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