Cavs vs Wizards and the 2007 regular season
Published by The Cavalier August 1st, 2006 in Free Agency, New York Knicks, LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers, Washington Wizards, 06-07 Preview
The 2007 schedule is supposed to be out today, and early word is opening night contains LeBron v Arenas II.
(Later, when the full thingie is released, there’ll be an exciting link that takes you to said thingie right here. Here that thingie is! The Cavaliers have 33 games on national TV, which is somewhat obnoxious, even to us.)
For now, let’s deal with the fact that without 5/5 man Jared Jeffries, the Wiz will essentially be a cripple, meaning there’s no way the Cavaliers don’t come roaring out to a 1-0 start to the season.
Yes, Jared Jeffries, the poor man’s poor man’s poor man’s Tay Prince, has been offered a 5-year, $30M deal by the New York Knicks.
Washington would like to retain the 6-11 Jeffries but the Knicks structured the deal in such a way that the Wizards may let him walk. The Daily News reported on Sunday that Jeffries’ contract calls for him to receive 80% of his annual salary before the season begins. He also has a 15% trade kicker included in his contract.
“Jared signed the offer sheet with the intention of playing for the Knicks,” said Jeffries’ agent, Andy Miller. “Nothing has changed.”
We’ve always wondered about these dudes who want their yearly salary up front like that. (Didn’t Shaq used to do this with the Lakers, btw?)
What’s the deal - do they just want a big check to show their friends? Are they paranoid the team will run out of cash halfway through the year? Did JJ already spend last year’s October check, and he’s out of cash?
Those are all possibilities, but the truth in this case is more likely that Jared’s agent thinks he can trick Isiah into paying him twice. In fact, we’re pretty sure we could trick Isiah Thomas into paying us twice, and we don’t even work for the Knicks.
NOTE: The Knicks essentially are paying him twice (if he comes there), since being over the luxury limit by 80 gertillium dollars means they pay a dollar penalty to the NBA for every dollar they’re above said limit in player salaries.
NOTE II: THE RETURN OF THE NOTE: See why we don’t talk about stats or numbers in general? Even we have no idea what we actually said in this post. We’re much better off making jokes about eating cake in the 24th century, yes?
the pay up front clause is specified for the purpose of discouraging the other team to match the offer .it has nothing to do with ‘running out of money’.
thomas figured that old man pollin is allergic to doling out that much money so early .
Take my Jeffries…….PLEASE!
Some would put forth the theory that “running out of money” was a joke on my part, but that’s why things are open to interpretation.
I’m sorry to say boys, the Wiz are gonna be twice the team with the black Abraham Lincoln going to New York. We get rid of him and make room for the first white guy we’ve had since ‘04! Look out Lebron…Dsong is coming to get ya!
when this broke a few days ago, I was surprised by how isiah could still surprise me. this might do me in though. like when cartman saw the funniest thing he could ever see and blew out his funny? or something? yeah. kinda like that.
If Jeffries Is Getting $4M Of His $5 Million Up Front, His Contract Is All Of A Sudden Worth $5.3/$5.4 Million Perhaps With The Interest Accrued On That Lump Payment … Once Again Isiah Has Figured Out A Way To Give Away Even More Knicks Money Than Allowed. Glad He’s Not My Money Manager … Like The PoorMan’s PoorMan’s PoorMan line. Classic.
If the Knicks ever did run out money, Isiah could probably negotiate a nice fee (given the millions you recently scamed off us poor sacks) to manage and/or star in your mamba movie. I mean how would you say no to that scenario. Than you could rename the movie to “who shot mamba? Zeke did!”
God the Knicks are dumb.
They’ll give 30 million to Jared Jeffries but won’t pay 7 million for Jackie Butler.
$30 million for an average defensive player that can’t play any offense? Sounds about right for the Knicks.
It’s only because Vlade Divac turned down a 38 million dollar sign and trade.
damn isiah i dont know why he is so obsessed with 6-11 long bodied players…