Great news for suns fans!

[HoodieBets]

Coach K has decided to stay at duke. Just came across ESPN. This means that kobe will leave LA, I assume, so the suns still have a shot.

 

[Yuma]

Coach K has decided to stay at duke. Just came across ESPN. This means that kobe will leave LA, I assume, so the suns still have a shot.

I don't know about Kobe, but that is great news for those of us that like college basketball. Although, it would have helped UofA out a lot if K was out of the recruiting scene. I just got the feeling he would have been eaten up in the pros. I am glad coach K stayed at Duke!

 

[az jam]

IMO Kobe has no interest in the Suns. I still see him staying with the Lakers. Glad that Coach K is staying at Duke; he is a legend in college basketball and would only tarnish his image by coaching in the pros.

 

[elindholm]

Wow.

Chalk up another example of someone turning down money, which many on this board insist no one would ever do. Is he going to make $40 million over the rest of his career at Duke, even if he lives to 120 years old? No way. And if he isn't going to make the jump to the NBA now, that means he's never going to.

 

[Yuma]

Wow.

Chalk up another example of someone turning down money, which many on this board insist no one would ever do. Is he going to make $40 million over the rest of his career at Duke, even if he lives to 120 years old? No way. And if he isn't going to make the jump to the NBA now, that means he's never going to.

True, he probaly won't make that much. He does make millions now. He is making a legacy at Duke. It's really doubtful he would make a legacy at the Lakers. Maybe if the player mess wasn't so bad, he might consider it. You look around at how hard it is to coach in the NBA, and how he's built up his program and recruiting at Duke, and I would stay if I was him, too.

 

[hcsilla]

Wow.

Chalk up another example of someone turning down money, which many on this board insist no one would ever do. Is he going to make $40 million over the rest of his career at Duke, even if he lives to 120 years old? No way. And if he isn't going to make the jump to the NBA now, that means he's never going to.

You mean that's the same thing as if a player would turn down a money from his guaranteed contract?

 

[khilari]

Coach K has decided to stay at duke. Just came across ESPN. This means that kobe will leave LA, I assume, so the suns still have a shot.

I don't think Koby is going anywhere...He will sign a Mega Deal with the Lakers and We should continue on and sign a Defensive Minded Center that can provide Rebounding and some Shot Blocking and Make a Run a being a decent team that can win a first round series in the playoffs.

 

[elindholm]

You mean that's the same thing as if a player would turn down a money from his guaranteed contract?

How is it substantially different?

 

[NugzFan]

Coach K has decided to stay at duke. Just came across ESPN. This means that kobe will leave LA, I assume, so the suns still have a shot.

a shot? with what cap space?

 

[HoodieBets]

a shot? with what cap space?

They already offered him a contract i believe and its the max you can give a player.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

They already offered him a contract i believe and its the max you can give a player.

They offererd Kobe the max, but the follwing day they came to a verbal agreement with Nash for somewhere between 8.5 and 10 million as a starting number.

That will leave us with 6-8 million in cap space, no longer enough to offer a max.

 

[George O'Brien]

They offererd Kobe the max, but the follwing day they came to a verbal agreement with Nash for somewhere between 8.5 and 10 million as a starting number.

That will leave us with 6-8 million in cap space, no longer enough to offer a max.

Before we get started down this road, the term "max" has a couple of different meanings in this context. I know that Graham is talking about the most that any free agent can be offererd by another team which is percentage of the cap or a certain step above the prior year's salary. For Kobe it was roughly $14.1 million to start which runs to about $100 million over six years.

Unfortunately, people sometimes refer to any large salary, six year deal as a "max deal" because six years is the maximum number of years. There is also the weird "Mid level max" which is six years starting at the MLE which runs to about $40 million. It is very important to be clear about what sort of "max" is being discussed or else confusion will reign.

Actually it already reigns or rains as the case may be, but whatever.