Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
he has no leverage.His option salary wasn't outrageous - it was $3.1M. He probably doesn't get that next year, but I don't think $2M would shock me, especially if he keeps playing like last night (a big if).
A short list of the guards the Lakers alone managed to sign for less than $2mil this year:
Meeks $1.55mil
Duhon $1.5mil
Farmer $1.1mil
Young $1.1mil
Henry $0.92mil
Johnson $0.92mil
Marshall $0.55mil
(and yes, that Lakers team is composed of 100% guards)
In any case, Jimmer averages 11min a game and 5.9pts/gm. There will be dozens of guys at that level on the market. Put another way, if we signed him as a free agent this summer for $3.1mil people would be, and should be, screaming bloody murder. We have our heads pressed against the tax limit as it is.
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