Rockets signs Nick Johnson to 3 year deal; expects Llull to stay in Europe

I wonder if he paid attention to the Trey Thompkins situation. Trey was drafted one pick before Parsons. He got a 2 year contract for 1.2 million, and is now out of the league. If he had signed the same contract as Parsons, he would have made 2.6 million.

 

Johnson is ready to put on the colors and get to work.. ROCKETS

 

Right,but 1st round picks give those years because they have financial guarantees up front in case they're a bust.

2nd round pick contracts are not guaranteed, so what is the point of 4 years? If you prove you can play after 2, then the sooner you get to make real money.
If you prove you can't play after 2 years, well you get cut anyway.

So if you're confident you'll make it, why sign up for another year or 2 of getting underpaid?

 

From what I've seen of him in the summer league games I do not believe he's NBA ready at this moment. That doesn't mean I don't think he'll be a good player though. The D-league will be really good for him IMO... BUT, it's not like he has strong competition in front of him.

Are you sure Trey was even offered the same contract as Parsons during his negotiations...??? Maybe the team didn't have the faith to lock him down for that long or maybe they didn't have the cap space to offer him a contract like Parsons received.

Just the same I think Nick is a guy who will end up sticking around in the NBA so the 2 year deal with a team option for the 3rd year is good for him... Especially if he turns out to be a good player.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Happy to be apart of the rockets family officially!</p>&mdash; Nick Johnson (@iRocket3) <a href="https://twitter.com/iRocket3/statuses/492707590472626177">July 25, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Hopefully he's working on his 3 ball.

15 Summer League Games

13.4 ppg 44% fg 23% 3fg 80% FT 4.9 rebs 3.5 asts 1.4 stls 0.53 blks

 

I hope his game will remain going in hard and penetrating and not get soft, unable to finish in the hole. He needs to bang around and see if he can finish off any penetration attempt whether it be straight down the middle or from the back door.

He needs to insert himself into the O and take command of the flow. Let's just hope his D can hold down any task.

Penis.

 

Our Johnson is actually big depending which slot we put him in. I'm guessing he will be playing behind both Beverley and Harden though, not much unlike Lin did.

 

Anyone know why Nick didn't participate in the 2014 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot?

 

He deemed the jerseys too ugly to be caught in, even if dead..