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If Boozer is re-signed…

No way we resign Boozer unless we have some serious trade negotiations involved. Amare just got 100 million. Boozer should command probably at least 80. I also bet that he wants a good 5-6 year deal, which should be waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy too much. I can't wait to see how many games Amare misses due to knee and eye injuries in NY. Lets not be retarded too.
 
r_u_s_t_b_u_c_k_e_t said:
If the Nets strike out with this summer's free agents, wouldn't that seem to be a good fit for Kirlilenko? A 2nd round pick would be nice compensation (right at the top of the round).
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That was my knee-jerk thinking too but I think we exaggerate the Russian connection.

That Russian is a businessman and it would be folly to pay $18 million to rent AK for a year so he can have Bird rights. He can wait a year as the Jazz aren't extending AK and then get him for less than half next season. NJ strikes out of the FA market, they probably prefer to suck another year for more lottery balls than pay somebody $18 million while still missing the playoffs anyway.

And that NJ 2nd rounder is likely a no-go. Those high 2nd rounders are valuable. Miami even traded their 18th pick and Dequan Cook for OKC's 2nd rounder in this year's draft.
 
jimmyjazz said:
That was my knee-jerk thinking too but I think we exaggerate the Russian connection.

That Russian is a businessman and it would be folly to pay $18 million to rent AK for a year so he can have Bird rights. He can wait a year as the Jazz aren't extending AK and then get him for less than half next season. NJ strikes out of the FA market, they probably prefer to suck another year for more lottery balls than pay somebody $18 million while still missing the playoffs anyway.

And that NJ 2nd rounder is likely a no-go. Those high 2nd rounders are valuable. Miami even traded their 18th pick and Dequan Cook for OKC's 2nd rounder in this year's draft.
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Where do you get your info that they wouldn't extend AK? LINK? please don't make crap up.
I think they will do all they can to keep him, just not at a max deal.
I also think AK is very comfortable in SLC and would be looking to stay.
 
We should walk away from AK as fast as we can when his deal is up. I am tired of a guy who plays for 41 games a season and only shows up for 28 of them.
 
TheMulletMutilator said:
We should walk away from AK as fast as we can when his deal is up. I am tired of a guy who plays for 41 games a season and only shows up for 28 of them.
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...you sound like a guy who should join me on my anti-NBA rants! Are you looking forward to the long lockout of these clowns as much as I am???
 
mfree said:
How about a 2nd round pick and $18M in cap space?
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there's no such thing as "cap space" for the jazz... no matter what happens with kirilenko, they're over the cap. you could say "a 2nd round pick and $18M in salary relief," but cap space doesn't mean anything to the jazz until at least 2012.
 
Michael said:
Where do you get your info that they wouldn't extend AK? LINK? please don't make crap up.
I think they will do all they can to keep him, just not at a max deal.
I also think AK is very comfortable in SLC and would be looking to stay.
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You can't extend contracts with lower salaries. An extension for AK would start at a minimum of 17,000,000.

He's quite right. The Jazz will not extend Kirilenko.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
You can't extend contracts with lower salaries. An extension for AK would start at a minimum of 17,000,000.

He's quite right. The Jazz will not extend Kirilenko.
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I don't see where extensions are required to be a raise. Feel free to cite when you state.

"The salary in the first year of an extension to a rookie scale contract may be any amount up to the player's maximum." [Including a drop in pay.]
https://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q51

I could see AK wanting to play for NJN, and I can see him wanting to stay--and being offered a salary in the nine figures range. Or maybe he goes back to the homeland.
 
Michael said:
jimmyjazz said:
That Russian is a businessman and it would be folly to pay $18 million to rent AK for a year so he can have Bird rights. He can wait a year as the Jazz aren't extending AK and then get him for less than half next season. NJ strikes out of the FA market, they probably prefer to suck another year for more lottery balls than pay somebody $18 million while still missing the playoffs anyway.
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Where do you get your info that they wouldn't extend AK? LINK? please don't make crap up.
I think they will do all they can to keep him, just not at a max deal.
I also think AK is very comfortable in SLC and would be looking to stay.
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Well, where did you get your news that the Jazz will extend AK? For AK to get an extension, they’ll have to do that before he becomes a free agent next offseason. There’s not even a whiff of a rumor to indicate that.

Especially with new golden boy Hayward at AK’s natural spot, I thnk it’s common sense that AK will very likely be a free agent next year. The Jazz and the Nets could then go after him if they want -- but not before then. The point again is that there’s no rush for NJ to absorb his $18M this year despite the owner being Russian.
 
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