<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cavs agree to five-year, $82 million fully guaranteed deal with free agent Tristan Thompson, agent Rich Paul tells Yahoo. <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes">@ChrisBHaynes</a> 1st</p>— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/656967181331132416">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tristan Thompson deal makes him 6th highest paid PF behind Kevin Love, LaMarcus Aldridge, Blake Griffin, Paul Millsap, David Lee.</p>— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/656967932187164672">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cavs agreement with Tristan Thompson is 5 years with no player or team options. All $82 million is fully guaranteed, which was a key issue</p>— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN/status/656971350725099520">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Thompson wins the Mexican Stand off. Good luck to him. Honestly, I thought he and his agent would blink first.
Too much money; problem is almost every contract these days seems to be too much. Crazy how contracts will go even higher next off season.
Rich Paul: Play hardball until his clients get paid. Eric Bledsoe(Hardball before agreeing to 5 year, $70M deal) Kentavious Caldwell-Pope(Still on rookie contract) Norris Cole(Just signed QO this past week) Montrezl Harrell(Signed late for a 2nd, albeit early, round pick) LeBron James(...) Cory Joseph(4 years, $30M) Trey Lyles(Rookie) Ben McLemore(Still on rookie deal) Kevin Seraphin(1 year, $2.8M) Tristan Thompson(Holdout before agreeing to 5 years, $82M deal) Although, seems like Tristan & Rich caved here, not the Cavs if previous reports are to be believed. (5 years, $80M)
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thompson reps kept pushing story client would sit year w/o max deal. Cavs, NBA never bought it. In end, agents caved, accepted lower deal.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/656974341708652544">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> That's a lower deal?
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I don't think it was max money. I don't want to look it up, anyone know what would be max money for TT for a 5 year deal.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How much??? </p>— DeMarcus Cousins (@boogiecousins) <a href="https://twitter.com/boogiecousins/status/656981828662726656">October 21, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
