Nets sign Donatas Motiejunas to 4-year, $37M offer sheet

How about taxes? I'm guessing DMo hopes the Rockets now match this deal right? Or would he make the same money in New York as he would in Texas?

 

I'm just talking specifically about boxing out, which D-Mo does. Our bigs kept trying to out-jump Faried (a really bad idea when you're Ryan Anderson), and they were getting killed. It's not about Motiejunas being some great rebounder individually, I just think it would help this group specifically to have another guy who puts a body on his man, because we don't have a lot of guys who consistently box out.

You don't have to be such a heinous d******d all the time.

 

GOODBYE DONATAS MOTIEJUNAS YOUR SCRUB 1 YEAR WONDER ASS IS NO LONGER NEEDED

 

Lol

 

Brown or Ennis for me...

 

Agreed. I would match it and not think twice about it

Rocket River

 

B.J. Armstrong needed to brush up on his Bird Law before trying to tango with Morey. He got Lawyer'd on this one.

 

Finally a useful DMO thread

About 200 pages of Dmo Threads combined plus another half the posts in the Rhyno thread on this.

Everyone should have jsut kept CALm and waited it out

 

we dont need him for our offense...harden cant just pass it to him to make a nice dunk...he cant even dunk for god sake. Just let him walk.

 

We needed something to do, since the "Calm Down: We're sitting at .500 threads" seem to have died down

 

Very interesting clauses in the Offer Sheet. This is a must read from Woj. It's almost like Morey wrote this Offer Sheet for the Nets

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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources-donatas-motiejunas-signs-offer-sheet-with-nets-005834304.html

The Brooklyn Nets have signed Houston Rockets restricted free-agent forward Donatas Motiejunas to a four-year and likely $35 million offer sheet, league sources told The Vertical.

The terms of the offer sheet are rife with protections against recurring back problems that have sidelined Motiejunas and could make it even more palatable for the Rockets to match and retain the 7-footer. The contract delivers the ability to void the final two years of the contract, as well as an opportunity to bail on the second season before the end of the 2016-17 season, league sources told The Vertical.

The offer sheet has Motiejunas earning $5 million upon the signing of the contract, and the team has to decide by Jan. 10 whether to pay him another $3.5 million for the remainder of the 2016-17 season, league sources said.

By March 1, the team has to pick up the option for $9 million owed to Motiejunas for the 2017-18 season, sources said.

The final two years of the contract are non-guaranteed, league sources said, which means the team can cut Motiejunas loose without paying the balance of the contract. Before the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons, there’s a July 7 trigger date to make a decision on Motiejunas’ deal. Each of the four years includes $1 million in likely bonuses, and $500,000 in unlikely bonuses, sources said.

The Nets delivered the offer sheet electronically to the Rockets on Friday night, and Houston has until midnight Tuesday to match the offer sheet and retain Motiejunas.

Concerns over recurring back issues – which included surgery to repair a ruptured disk in 2015 – impacted the interest NBA teams had in signing Motiejunas, 26, to an offer sheet over the summer.

If acquired, Nets general manager Sean Marks and coach Kenny Atkinson view Motiejunas as a power forward playing beside center Brook Lopez.

Houston had been offering a deal in the $8 million range annually, but talks had been sparse between the sides for months.

Motiejunas, who played 37 games a year ago following surgery, and the Rockets had been unable to come to terms on an agreement, causing the 7-footer to miss training camp and Houston’s 12-7 start to the regular season. Coach Mike D’Antoni has been eager to incorporate Motiejunas into the Rockets’ frontcourt and join the current No. 4 seed in the Western Conference.

The uncertainty around Houston’s willingness to agree to a long-term deal with Motiejunas was because of his back issues. Motiejunas was examined by Nets doctors recently, league sources said, and the results gave comfort to Brooklyn to move forward with the offer sheet.

For the Nets, this is the third restricted free agent offer sheet executed under Marks. July offer sheets to Portland guard Allen Crabbe (four years, $75 million) and Miami guard Tyler Johnson (four years, $50 million) were matched. With a franchise devoid of draft picks and talent, Marks has been determined to find creative ways to improve the Nets’ roster.

Taking a shot at Motiejunas is a pre-emptive move on next summer’s free agent market.

The Rockets had a three-way trade that would’ve sent Motiejunas to Detroit voided last season. The Pistons doctors failed Motiejunas on his physical exam because of the back.

 

He wants the Rockets to match. Those 'unlikely' clauses are the tell.

 

This is also a tell. He flew to Houston

 

Hmmmmmm... very very interesting.

 

What were the Nets thinking?

 

They didn't.

Morey told them how to structure it.

 

Lmao DMo had a chance at a 2nd year partially guaranteed and now he gets a contract that comes with a trapdoor.

 

I actually think this is an OK contract for DMo. The injury concerns are still there, and he probably wouldn't have been able to up his market value much on this Rockets team anyway since it's pretty stacked with frontcourt players (Anderson, Dekker, Harrell, Capela, Nene) who would be eating up a fair amount of minutes. So at best he'd be averaging something like 15-20 minutes a game, not really enough to convince the league you're worth a big contract, especially given that he's probably quite rusty and out of game shape after missing so much playing time. So I think from his perspective it was worth it seeking a better deal rather than gambling on yourself to perform well this year and therefore make more money next year. Basically, he didn't win anything from looking for a better deal, but it was worth a try, IMO.

 

D-MO "PASS to ME here In FOREST, Harden! I'm NOT afraid the WOLFS!"

HARDEN: "Srsly? (Psshhfft) Do you EVEN DUNK, Bro?!
*dribble step-back jumper..*

[The New PROFESSIONAL APPROACH to OFFENSIVE execution there. Points generated NO other way...]