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I recently took less money because a job was much closer to home. If he likes playing in Spain and being top dog there I can understand that.
Jody Genessey - no Ante Tomic
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stormkoopacv03
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Damn shame.. oh well, Kaminsky, come on down! 
I'm in the same boat. Used to work for one of the Big 4. It was fun for a while striving, working hard to get promoted, etc. But it was just too competitive for my liking, plus living in a small apartment in a big city does get old over time. Not much of a life, or may be I'm not cut out for that kind of lifestyle...
Running a small family business now and I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Not even close the extent it is in basketball, just for the sheer lack of opportunities out there. In the NBA only 450 people in the world at one time can say they are an NBA player. Just at KPMG thousands of people can say they are accountants for them.
And if I'm bagging on him, I'm bagging on myself I guess. I said he's not cut out to be an NBA player because he has a chance to come over here and play and (at least as of now) he won't do it. I'm not cut out for KPMG because a) I detest large corporations and would never work for one b) I've never applied. I don't even know if they'd accept me. Perhaps I don't have the requisite skill level to work for them. For him b doesn't apply. A might apply to him (though I've never heard him say flat out he'll never play in the NBA), which in that case it does mean he's not cut out for the NBA.
In most professions I get it.
Not in professional sports. I don't understand competitive athletes not wanting to play with the best players on the planet, and if they don't they aren't cut out to be in the highest level basketball league.
If he wants to be top dog in professional basketball's AAA league good for him. But that tells me all I need to know about how he would cut it in the NBA.
Locke had some interesting things to say about Tomic on his podcast. He pointed out that the negotiation periods are different for Euroleague and the NBA. And the Jazz were not allowed to make Tomic an offer right now. So if Tomic had turned down the Euro offer, he would have had to do that without having a hard Jazz offer in hand. I'm not sure if that's accurate, but Locke usually gets stuff like that right. If true, it gives another perspective for Tomic's decision. And to me it also opens the door up that Tomic could still be interested in the Jazz... perhaps he has a buyout clause that would allow him to still come to terms with Utah once the NBA negotiation period starts.
If that's the case I see the business side much more in his thinking.
Joe Bagadonuts
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I caught the tail end of a conversation on The Zone between Spence Checketts and Gordon Monson where they felt that a "no comment" from DL when asked about the Tomic situation suggested that getting him to Utah might still be a possibility.
Coach Ellis
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We'll see. I think that Barcelona was smart to lock him up now if the Jazz aren't able to negotiate with him yet.
If the rules are structured that way, then the Jazz should have been recruiting him strongly to let him know of their interest unequivocally. Perhaps he decided to take the best offer they gave him with the intention of seeing if the Jazz would give him a better offer that would make whatever his buyout is palatable. I guess we'll find out in June when they can negotiate with him.
It interesting that Barcelona would go all the way up to $3 million euros (when they stated that $2 million was too much.) Wothout a hard offer from the Jazz, I'd have take that too. Im sure there's a buyout in it, so I'm curious as to what it is. It's clear that Tomic was negotiating from a position of strength this time around. Could be that the buyout is entirely reasonable. I'm not going to get my hopes up though. Still think that Tomic at $7 million per year (about what Mirotic got from the Bulls) would be well worth the investment.
If the rules are structured that way, then the Jazz should have been recruiting him strongly to let him know of their interest unequivocally. Perhaps he decided to take the best offer they gave him with the intention of seeing if the Jazz would give him a better offer that would make whatever his buyout is palatable. I guess we'll find out in June when they can negotiate with him.
It interesting that Barcelona would go all the way up to $3 million euros (when they stated that $2 million was too much.) Wothout a hard offer from the Jazz, I'd have take that too. Im sure there's a buyout in it, so I'm curious as to what it is. It's clear that Tomic was negotiating from a position of strength this time around. Could be that the buyout is entirely reasonable. I'm not going to get my hopes up though. Still think that Tomic at $7 million per year (about what Mirotic got from the Bulls) would be well worth the investment.
