Holy crap Bogut extension

[Section 101]

5 years 72.5 million.

Now that is over paying.

Beno's deal looks pretty good compared to those numbers.

 

[NewMonkey]

Bogut has turned into a pretty decent player, but he needs to be at 18 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks to justify that kind of money.

 

[Vlade4GM]

A young center who puts up about 15-10-2 along with very good pasing, that's about the going rate these days.

 

[Bricklayer]

They have been insanely high these last few years on Bogut, despite him making modest gains at best on the court. That's a ridiculous contract even given that though. That's franchise money for a guy who is just a support player.

 

[nbrans]

He had a pretty strong year for a bad team, and 15/10/2 isn't bad, but man.... He'd better keep improving if that's not going to be an albatross contract. To put it in perspective, would you rather have Kevin Martin for $55 million or Andrew Bogut for $72 million? It's really no contest, particularly since it's not like Andrew Bogut is some irreplaceable presence.

Especially in a time when restricted free agent deals have been going down and down, it seems like they way overbid.

 

[piksi]

Looking at this I realized that we got Vlade for free back then

 

[Big Cuz 15]

ppl r getting PAID!Q

 

[Vlade4GM]

They have been insanely high these last few years on Bogut, despite him making modest gains at best on the court. That's a ridiculous contract even given that though. That's franchise money for a guy who is just a support player.

Well, like Bob Dylan said, "the times they are a changin'." These guys are progressively getting more and more paid, and good young centers get paid the most.

 

[Entity]

yeah the MLE is low for a starter these days. So thats about right.

 

[Bricklayer]

Well, like Bob Dylan said, "the times they are a changin'." These guys are progressively getting more and more paid, and good young centers get paid the most.

Good young centers who contribute almost zero wins to the W-L column however typically do not. You can be a very bad, and very soft, team with Andrew Bogut as your center. He is a non-impact player getting paid impact money. Nobody else was going to throw that at him. Its another BMiller contract. Actually worse -- he's going to be earning what? $16-$17mil in the final year of his contract? He's better be 20-10 by that point.

 

[diggining]

And Brad Miller is totally affordable at only slightly more than 10 million! Who wants him?

 

[FakeInjury]

I would take Miller over Bogut. And i am not a miller fan, i just know that miller has a very high Basketball IQ. Bogut does not because he just accepted 5 more years of not making the playoffs.

 

[Bricklayer]

I would take Miller over Bogut. And i am not a miller fan, i just know that miller has a very high Basketball IQ. Bogut does not because he just accepted 5 more years of not making the playoffs.

Quite to the contrary -- Bogut just assured himself of being in the wealthiest 1/10 of 1% of the world's population for the rest of his life.

 

[AleksandarN]

Wow alot of money didn't people learn last summer(Darko) do not over pay young centers

 

[mac]

If this is the money Bogut gets what would you pay Bynum?

 

[Superman]

That contract is nuts. That's only $10 million less than what Elton Brand got.