ronnie price signs a multi year deal with utah!

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Price Signs Multi-Year Deal With UtahJuly 26, 2007 - 12:46 pm
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RealGM Staff Report -
Utah Jazz senior vice president of basketball operations, Kevin O’Connor, announced today that the team has agreed to terms with free agent guard Ronnie Price, pending a physical. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not released.

Price (6-2, 190, Utah Valley State) appeared in 87 games over two seasons with Sacramento, averaging 2.9 points, 1.0 rebound and 0.7 assists in 8.2 minutes per game. Price played in 58 games (one start) for the Kings in 2006-07, and averaged 3.3 points, 1.2 rebounds and 0.8 assists in 9.7 minutes per game. He scored a career-high 16 points vs. the Jazz on November 22, 2006, one of seven double-digit scoring performances by Price this past season. [READ]


http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/47338/20070726/price_signs_multi_year_deal_with_utah/
 
Because the Kings organization are a bunch of morons. I never used to think that, but more and more it's being proven to me. Utah has a real nice 1, 2 punch at point guard now.

I think Ronnie's first action should be to apologize to Carlos Boozer for making him look so bad.
 
Minutes after I post about the Jazz keeping Dee Brown, I see this. That may leave Brown available, and I think he would certainly be a better acquisition than Wilks.
 
Considering they just signed Jason Hart this is odd. I would have rather had Price than Hart but now they have Williams, Hart, Price and Dee Brown(a restricted free agent).
 
I mentioned this in the Free-Agency thread a while ago that we should go after Dee Brown, Utah took our young point lets nab this guy he can ball.
 
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Circa_1985_Fan said:
We can get Dee Brown so he can do the 'no look' dunk and pump up his shoes...oh wait...wrong Dee Brown.
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But seriously I don't understand the Jazz picking up Price and Hart, I think Dee Brown is better then both right now and has the potential to be better then Price in the future.
I geuss i'll start the official "Sign Dee Brown" post.
 
ronnie makes a lot more sense in Utah than Sac. They have a young franchise point guard, and I still do not see Ronnie as a PG, or at least true PG.
 
I see it now.

Ronnie Price is going to absolutely cream someone on our frontline with a poster dunk that may top his famous Boozer one.

Look out Miller/Hawes/SAR/K9/Moore.
 
BALLER4LIFE said:
and please tell me again why we did not chose to go after price but are going after wilks?!?
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We DID make a qualifying offer to Price. He did not sign it and reportedly asked us to rescind it so he could sign elsewhere. And I'm still amazed that all of a sudden Ronnie Price is being relegated to some kind of hero status.

He was a nice kid with borderline PG skills who never really showed much of anything except the ability to do a highlight reel dunk once in a while, which isn't really what we're looking for in a point guard anyway.
 
^^^ add to this that Ronnie had the chance to return to Utah. The Kings FO are not idiots or morons in this situation. We extended an offer to Ronnie (who I loved watching play by the way), but we ended-up competing for his services against his home team so to speak.

I am disappointed that I will not be able to cheer for him anymore, but I do understand why he made the move he did.
 
BMiller52 said:
Don't we have room for Mike Wilks? I would rather sign Dee instead of Wilks. Atleast he is young and talented.
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And there in hangs the tale.

Personally I watch Price and I see so much desire and guts I feel he is worth investment and obviouslly people in Utah agree. Wils is a known quantity and has not up side left in him. Get him cheap and you still have to wonder where your future is. Shakur? Douby? I am not convinced. As far as Dee goes maybe but at this point he HAS resinged with Utah and while I am sure his contract could be had I am not sure why we would want a guy they are not sold on who only takes MORE time from any young tallent we wnat to develop.

My complaint about Wilkes is that I wna to see young tallent developed. I would go as far as to say I would rather see a couple young palyers prove they do NOT belong at PG inthe NBA than watch a journeyman stiff prove that he barely does, beceause a player like that has litle to offer while kids can be cut loose and replaced with next years crop.

You can take the above paragraph and insert Mikki Moore for Wilkes as well and apply it to our 4-5 situation.
 
HndsmCelt said:
And there in hangs the tale.

Personally I watch Price and I see so much desire and guts I feel he is worth investment and obviouslly people in Utah agree. Wils is a known quantity and has not up side left in him. Get him cheap and you still have to wonder where your future is. Shakur? Douby? I am not convinced. As far as Dee goes maybe but at this point he HAS resinged with Utah and while I am sure his contract could be had I am not sure why we would want a guy they are not sold on who only takes MORE time from any young tallent we wnat to develop.

My complaint about Wilkes is that I wna to see young tallent developed. I would go as far as to say I would rather see a couple young palyers prove they do NOT belong at PG inthe NBA than watch a journeyman stiff prove that he barely does, beceause a player like that has litle to offer while kids can be cut loose and replaced with next years crop.

You can take the above paragraph and insert Mikki Moore for Wilkes as well and apply it to our 4-5 situation.
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I look at it a little differently. we know where our talent is at, and its Martin and Garcia, and Hawes and Williams. specifically with Martin and Garcia do we want to see these guys develop with guys like shakur and douby and price? too me thats just too much inexperience. it will be better if we can throw a guy in at the point who has some decent time there and can fulfill a role. As for Wilks, Theus and Petrie must think that he can compliment Martin and Garcia well enough so that those too can get better.
 
Just out of curiosity - what are his career highs because it will come handy in the near future
 
utah obviously sees talent in the kid. i just don't understand what the kings are trying to achieve. couldn't we have stashed him in the nbdl to allow him to get some game time? i just have a feeling we are adding these vets so we can get another late lotto pick. :rolleyes:
 
SLAB said:
I see it now.

Ronnie Price is going to absolutely cream someone on our frontline with a poster dunk that may top his famous Boozer one.

Look out Miller/Hawes/SAR/K9/Moore.
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i hope he throws a few nasty dunks on the kings and show them why they shoulda kept him. :)
 
why do you guys care so much about ronnie? all i remember him for was that one dunk. It was pretty crazy, but not reason enough to keep him.
 
RIP miyagi said:
why do you guys care so much about ronnie? all i remember him for was that one dunk. It was pretty crazy, but not reason enough to keep him.
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young - check
athletic - check
good jumper - check
upside - check

possbility of being a spark plug off the bench. he was known as a scorer. musselman was too chicken **** to lose his job thats why he didn't play any of the young guys. what a freaking idiot.
 
It wouldn't hurt for Price to stay on the Kings. Hopefully, this means Douby gets to play more. I want to see how well he uses his floater variations.
 
HndsmCelt said:
My complaint about Wilkes is that I wna to see young tallent developed. I would go as far as to say I would rather see a couple young palyers prove they do NOT belong at PG inthe NBA than watch a journeyman stiff prove that he barely does, beceause a player like that has litle to offer while kids can be cut loose and replaced with next years crop.

You can take the above paragraph and insert Mikki Moore for Wilkes as well and apply it to our 4-5 situation.
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I couldn't have said it better myself
 
VF21 said:
We DID make a qualifying offer to Price. He did not sign it and reportedly asked us to rescind it so he could sign elsewhere. And I'm still amazed that all of a sudden Ronnie Price is being relegated to some kind of hero status.

He was a nice kid with borderline PG skills who never really showed much of anything except the ability to do a highlight reel dunk once in a while, which isn't really what we're looking for in a point guard anyway.
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I agree with you most of the way here VF21, but didn't we say the same things after Gerald Wallace left us a few years back? ;)

Although he showed almost nothing to indicate he would ever be more than anything but a marginal NBA player, he did do ONE thing exceptionally well - man on man defense. I remember noting on several occasions last year, against top tier point guards (Nash and Parker specifically), that he had the ability to stay in front of and pester them. Doing one thing well will rarely keep you in the NBA, but playing great 1v1 defense is one of the boutique skills that WILL keep you in the league, if only for playing the last couple minutes of a game. I equate great man-to-man defense to great rebounding - every team needs it no matter how good your defense or rebounding is.

My overall thoughts though are pretty much the same, sure it hurts a bit to see him go but his numbers don't bely the complaints about him going on this board.

Edit - Anyone have any idea how much he got paid? I couldn't imagine Utah signing him for more than a million dollars over the 2 years.
 
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