Miami offers Odom 5 and 35 full MLE essentially

Miami offers Odom 5 and 35

full MLE essentially

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oh well. good luck heat

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by bowdown on Jul 17, 2009 12:41 PM PDT reply actions

$27mil/3 years + ring(s) vs. $35mil/5 years + no ring.

I’d take the 1st option… oops too late. :D

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by Net Ranger on Jul 17, 2009 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions

They could be scary if they do in fact land both Odom and Boozer. Ferocious.

by dario argento on Jul 17, 2009 12:49 PM PDT reply actions

I don't think they can afford both....

by jenstcy on Jul 17, 2009 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions

espn says miami is offering him a 9 milllion salary. dont know how that would work since theyre over the cap

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4336149

by shoothoop on Jul 17, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions

It's all about averages

Salary starts at the MLE, but when you have the standard increases over X number of years, the total package averages out to nine mil per year.

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by blazer91 on Jul 17, 2009 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions

5/35 is about the max you can do in a MLE deal, and it averages to 7 million per year. the author was taking some pretty serious liberties in equating it to 9 million a year. The total money is comparable, because the 9 mill deal was only for 4 years instead of 5. Plus the author is banking on some equalizing becuase of Florida’s lack of income tax – but that equates to roughly 750k a year, not the 2 million difference.

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by douglast on Jul 17, 2009 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah...

I was scratching my head with that also. Gosh…I really hope they do offer 5 years at $9 mil/per

by JasonT on Jul 17, 2009 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions

I wonder if Odom is regretting not accepting the 4/36 deal that was offered.

by Arby on Jul 17, 2009 1:10 PM PDT reply actions

oh yeah

How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009

by douglast on Jul 17, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't know

It’s starting to look like things weren’t as peachy in L.A. as they’d have everyone believe. He had to have known there aren’t alot of big contracts that could’ve been offered even had teams wanted to, so it tells me he’d rather take less money to not play with the Lakers.

by Bryan72076 on Jul 17, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions