It's not true - it's a math screw-up - it comes from nachbar claiming that its the equivalent of his take home pay of an NBA contract of 10 million due to taxes in the new york post article - so they took that number and then blew it up to euros to make it seem even bigger.
One thing I notice is that the US reporting is always lower on these Euro salaries. No one in the US seems to be aware that Jasikevicius makes $12 million per year. I see people saying $5 million. Yet all over Europe Tv and papers said it was $12 million. And you know it IS $12 million because he made more than the Panathinaikos soccer players, several of which make more than $5-$10 million. I think it's just all part of the meaning these days of being American. The economy is bad and the dollar is weak and it's not considered cool or politically correct to acknowledge how much better things are in Europe. BTW, Slovenian media states Nachbar signed for $41 million US dollars gross.
Slovenian media converts sheep to goats at a different rate than you are used to over in Greece - they use spot rates and you are using futures rates. YOu need to check yourself before you wreck yourself, Apollo. You are going to end up with Tzatziki all over your face if you persist with these outrageous acts of international pan-fibbery.
I don't know guys. Slovenian media is pretty united that he's making 6mil € per year and that 14 mil $ is old figure. I know for sure that our Smodis is making 2,5 mil € at CSKA and he is pretty low on list of most payed in europe.
Jasikevicius makes like 3 times what the US media reports for his salary. All over Europe it's always been said he made $12 million a year, but the US had $5 to possibly $8 million for his salary. You yourself tried to pass of a $13.5 million deal for Delfino and ESPN even said it was $27 million. Now Slovenian media states Nachbar actually signed for $41 million US gross. You have made it a personal mission to make every Rocket fan on earth that ever visited this forum believe something that was not true. That European basketball was some poor and minor league and was worse than the NCAA, etc. When in reality it is already much bigger than the ABA ever was. I don't know if this is through some bizarre attempt to make a certain former Rocket look bad or whatever. But it's blowing up in your face. The European clubs just a couple months ago the big club owners got together and decided to take on the NBA and this is now starting with these contracts. You better get used to it Fisher because this trend is here to stay and will move to much better NBA players.
You just used Feta Cheese math to increase his annual compensation from $4 million to $9 million to, according to your latest figure, $13.6 million per year., in the span of about 3 BBS posts. have you been hitting the ouzo too hard? I wonder when Scola will get his 3-year $75 million offer from Pana.
Actually a Euro goat could be converted to chickens very easily and then these can be sold to the Russians for Sturgeon Eggs. Pure gold. Surefire incentive for a US basketball player to go play there.
http://www.siol.net/sportal/kosarka/2008/07/sanjski_prestop_nachbarja_v_moskvo.aspx Sanjski prestop Nachbarja v Moskvo Ljubljana - Boštjan Nachbar, 28-letni slovenski košarkar, ki je zadnjih šest sezon v ligi NBA igral za Houston, New Orleans in New Jersey, se je odločil, da bo kariero nadaljeval v Evropi. Po Primožu Brezcu se iz ZDA v Evropo seli še Boštjan Nachbar (v sredini). Krilni košarkar je namreč podpisal triletno pogodbo z moskovskim Dinamom. Po dveh sezonah lahko "Boki" kljub še veljavni pogodbi klub zapusti, a le, če bo kariero nadaljeval v ligi NBA. Pogodba Boštjana Nachbarja je, kot je v njegovem imenu sporočil oče Vlado, vredna kar 28 milijonov ameriških dolarjev neto za tri sezone ali zapisano drugače šest milijonov evrov neto na sezono. V ligi NBA bi bila podobna pogodba v bruto znesku vredna približno 41 milijonov dolarjev. S tem je Boštjan Nachbar brez dvoma postal najbolje plačani košarkar, ki si kruh služi v Evropi. Nachbar je še drugi slovenski košarkar, ki se iz lige NBA vrača v Evropo. Primož Brezec bo v naslednji sezoni igral v rimski Lottomatici. * Brezec v Bečirovićevi družbi KZS/Sportal Foto: www.alesfevzer.com Read it and weep Fisher. of course you will act like it it was never posted and keep posting your own wrong numbers. But just like in the Delfino thread everyone else on the forum will see and know you have zero credibility.
uh, yeah. that article cleared everything up. the only number I saw in that jibberish was 28, as in Boki's age...
Ouzo-4-brains: I don't have to act like it's wrong - I know it's wrong. They keep multiplying his salary up by saying "it would be like if he was making XXX amount in the US." - then they keep doing it again and again - converted of course, by the number of beaver pelts that Finance Minister Anton Gregor Topo Zizo Pinot Grizio has set as the official Slovenian exchange rate. Accordingly things are lost in the math-lation.
I guess you need to read it again. V ligi NBA bi bila podobna pogodba v bruto znesku vredna približno 41 milijonov dolarjev.
there's a 41 at the end of the 5th paragraph... and the word following 41 is somewhat similar to million...
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