Report: Batum getting his money from Charlotte, doubt he even meets with other teams

[Rags]

Also worth noting: Knows he can get max deal somewhere else but wants to stay in the Queen City

 

 

[Sapper]

What is this I'm seeing?  Loyalty in a league filled with entitled prima donnas?

i like the way the French think.

[Ship]

hell yeah

[w280sax]

Would he be eligible for more money here or is his max deal the same anywhere?

I dont know how the money side of the nba works at all.

[Goondal]

Yay!!!

[Panther49er]

Yeah, wtf is "max money"?! No way Batum is worth as much as the max a superstar player can get such as Curry or LeFlop

[cbarrier90]

3 hours ago, Panther49er said:

Yeah, wtf is "max money"?! No way Batum is worth as much as the max a superstar player can get such as Curry or LeFlop

"The max" in this case refers to the maximum percentage of the cap that a given contract can take up.

The numbers will be eye opening since this is a new market we aren't used to and it's not likely Nic will live up to the deal, but like we just saw with Josh Norman, it only takes one team to set the market. It says alot that Nic is turning down overtures from a very good team in Toronto and a big market in New York.

The free agent market is so barren this year, outside of KD, you could make the case Nic is the best player available, and with the new TV money coming in, every team has cash to spend. Cho and everyone else knew this was coming, hence why he bought low on Kemba and MKG.

Just to get it out of the way, no, we shouldn't be burning this team down to save money for the first 200 million dollar contract in NBA history next year in Steph Curry. The Suns did this this past offseason to take whatever tiny chance they had at Aldridge and it failed miserably. However, if for some reason Curry was interested, you can bet the front office would do whatever it could to make room.

The priority right now should be keeping this squad together with a few tweaks and trying to establish some year to year consistency.

 

[The Lobo]

Great news. I.e. Let's secure Lin and make a splash in FA and we will be solid.

[bLACKpANTHER]

this calls for my fav gif on the net...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[nctarheel0619]

On 5/15/2016 at 0:20 AM, Panther49er said:

Yeah, wtf is "max money"?! No way Batum is worth as much as the max a superstar player can get such as Curry or LeFlop

LeFlop huh?  I'm really starting to think you're a cool dude.  

[Daddy_Uncle]

Get him, Lin and possibly Lee back, get MKG healthy for once, get a good tough defensive big man and maybe make a decent splash in free agency and we are right there. We are so close to being able to compete with most teams

[Omega Atrocity]

On 5/15/2016 at 8:50 PM, w280sax said:

Would he be eligible for more money here or is his max deal the same anywhere?

I dont know how the money side of the nba works at all.

Yeah, he is eligible for a little bit more money here, and we can give him the 5th year.