Chad Ford Grades
- Thread starter WizardOfAz
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Yuma
Suns are my Kryptonite!
Chad Ford is an idiot! You don't draft a guy based on a promise! If we had someone fall to us better, then we would have picked them and just apologized to Zarko. It wasn't like we were going to be sued. The thing with Lampe is he was taken in the SECOND round. Unguaranteed. Nothing works out with his contract situation, the Knicks wallk away. A good risk in the second round. Besides, the Suns have had to deal with Big Jake's contract dispute and have experience with foreign buy-outs. Maybe there is a reason they didn't take Lampe, like his contract is iron-clad. I think we did well with Zarko. If ford is going to downgrade us because we didn't take Lampe, then he has to downgrade all the other teams that had a shot at him, too!
jbeecham
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From what I have read and heard on Lampe, he was intentionally not drafted until the 2nd rd. If he gets picked outside of the top 10 or 13 then he wouldn't get enough money from his guaranteed contract (a team can only offer $350,000 towards the 1.8 mil buyout). If the Suns picked him at 17 then he'd get a 3 yr deal for like $825,000 a season and wouldn't be able to afford a buyout and would be stuck on his euro team. Since he got picked in the 2nd round there are no rookie contract limitations so the Knicks can offer him a contract of 2 million a year for 2-3 yrs and he can buy himself out of his deal (minus the $350,000 from NY). This is the only way he'd be able to get out of his contract.
Whether he's worth it or not if debatable.
Whether he's worth it or not if debatable.
