OT: Grizzlies extend Conley for 5 years $45 million, fan suffers nervous breakdown ;-)
With Greg Oden not receiving an extension, it looks like at least his friend and other client of Conley Sr. will get paid like out of this world (gratuitous Travis Outlaw reference) as first reported by ESPN's Chris Broussard.
Personally I always liked Mike Conley, but $9 million per year is a lot of money for a PG who at times struggled to keep his starting spot on a franchise with fairly poor attendance numbers mainly kept in Memphis by a long-term arena lease and not making the playoffs in recent years after trading away Pau Gasol to LA in a controversial deal. This could also have consequences down the road for Memphis' ability to retain upcoming free agents Marc Gasol (who not unlike his older brother will be highly coveted by a number of teams now or latest next summer), Zach Randolph, and in 2012 O.J. Mayo; as well as for the league at large with the upcoming CBA negotiations where Memphis now serves as a pretty bad exhibit for team owners stating their desire to cut basketball-related incomes but at the same time spending a lot on non-superstar players after this extension and the one for SF Rudy Gay for $82 million earlier this summer.
Reactions: Hardwood Paroxysm Twitter account (by Matt Moore, writer for CBSSports, NBC and AOL Fanhouse and loyal Grizzlies fan. Some explicit language.) Or initial rant mirrored on Tumblr for posterity
Edit: Article with a bit more time to reflect on CBSSports
SBN Grizzlies blog Straight Outta Vancouver
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Wow......
There are reasons, other than bad luck, that some teams perpetually suck. Trading Pau Gasol, then extending Conley for $9 million per year, for example.
Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
That was really, really entertaining
Poor guy. That contract is truly insane.
The bright side for us is that
one more up-and-coming team has been effectively bludgeoned to death by it’s GM’s. Just when you thought you had to take the Grizzlies a little seriously, they reveal that they are basically the T-Wolves who got lucky.
Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
I think it's not just the GM. It's also the owner meddling with front office decisions over the head of his basketball pro advisors.
An owner who admitted in a radio interview that he has never read nor bothers to understand the collective bargaining agreement.
I think he is talking about clubbing
and buying $1,000 dollars bottles of champagne but I guess “this” is kind of open to interpretation.
also a reference to a popular song right now
O lets do thisssss
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dude is losing his mind
but seriously, that contract is awful, even if it is the owner pulling the strings, how does someone that rich make such trouble decisions with money?
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by Eat Politicians on Nov 2, 2010 12:18 AM PDT reply actions
That was entertaining
Grateful for Rich Cho and Paul Allen. But I also feel sorry for Memphis fans.
Blazers basketball? Just basketball you say? More like a way of life
I'm higher on Conley than most people
but I think Dwyer said it best. These situations are what restricted free agency is made for.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Mike-Conley-just-got-paid?urn=nba-281852
NBA owners are for some reason completely unable to prevent themselves from paying guys according to their absolute peaks. It’s certainly possible for me to imagine Mike Conley playing at a level where this would be a reasonable contract, but it’s impossible to imagine anyway he would have gotten paid this much without Memphis bidding against themselves.
#52
Funny part is also that the Grizzlies haggled with their two rookies Xavier and Vasquez for about 300k each in bonuses all summer
In the end their agent hardballed them, the league told them it was very unusual to not give the rookies that money, and they had to pay it. Now apparently saving money was no longer a top priority.
It might not be as bad
I read on a different site that it was only 5yr $40mil with incentives that I think it’s safe to say he won’t reach bumping it up to the full $45mil. Although that only saves a million per year on the contract, it is a slightly better number.
Wouldn't he be like the 3rd highest paid Blazer
Or close to it. He couldn’t even start for us over Andre Miller.
Divide this by 24% after the lockout
and…it’s still too high
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by two4larue on Nov 2, 2010 4:06 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm with J.E. Skeets: the question isn't whether Conley is worth $9M (he clearly isn't), it's whether he's even a top 30 PG in this league...
Leave it to the Memphis cataclysm, the dumbbutts who though signing Allen Iverson was a brilliant idea last year, to pay the wrong guy and wave goodbye to the stars because they’re out of money…
Memphis plays to an empty building and is out of the money in the playoffs. The correct play is to blow the mama up and rebuild it around Mayo, Gay, and Gasol…
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