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Mathews signs offer sheet w/Blazers (5 yrs/34 mil)

Looking at Artest's deal from last year it has about 7%ish raises each year. That may have been bumped up. I figured the full MLE exception for 5 years with 7% raises at about 33M. So I might have been off by a million total.
 
How does that work?
Portland is over the cap so all they can offer is the MLE starting about 5.8Mish? with 7% annual raises that would not equal 40M after 5 years.

Year 1: 5.8M
Year 2: 6.2M
Year 3: 6.6M
Year 4: 7M
Year 5: 7.5M

Total: 33.1M

Or am I calculating wrong?

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Probably very similar to how the contract will look.

No way should the Jazz match that.
 
Someone posted earlier some figures that indicated that IF Matthews started out with $4 million a year, then, with 10% raises, we would have earned $25 million after 5 years. I don't know if that's accurate, but if so, we're really jus talking about a $4 million offer, with standard raises.

Edit: I now see the lastest report is $34 million. How does this work out, as a "startin" salary, assumin no front-loadin?

In rough numbers, he makes 5.7 to start. He can get 8.5 percent raises thereafter. I haven't computed the numbers, but 5.7 * 5 = 28.5. The raises might get him there, or there may even be a signing bonus involved, though I'm not sure how that correlates to the CBA.
 
Chad, are you plannin on keepin that signature long? The reason I ask is that it slows down my computer quite a bit whenever is appears on my screen. Same with Mambo's, for some reason.
 
The Blazers offered their full midlevel exception in a frontloaded contract that includes a $9.2 million payday in the first year in hopes it would be too expensive for the Jazz to match and keep Matthews, the source said.

WOWWWWWWWWW.

Well done, Wesley Matthews.
 
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