[Stein] Rockets Latest DMo offer "multiyear starts at a fully guaranteed $7m in Yr 1"

He only played in a few games with legitimate minutes due to JBB being a god-awful head coach that had his head up his ass when it came to rotations. Playing legit minutes for the rest of the Euroleague season would go a long way to show that he's healthy.

 

Dekker is a SF, Wiltjer would work because he's basically the same thing as Anderson just less proven, and I don't see the coach playing Trez at PF due to him not having a 3 point shot meaning there would be spacing issues if he were out there next to Capela. Really Nene going down would be more disastrous than losing our 18 million dollar 3 point specialist.

 

Good question.

It seems to me that Donuts took some terrible, awful advice to not sign the qualifying offer.

His career in the NBA is in jeopardy and Dork Elvis holds the key.

 

Remember guys, DMo is totally in control and just waiting until after 11/23 to sign so he can't be traded. This is a totally normal holdout out situation. Restricted free agents end up losing a whole season all the time. He's not losing money anyway because the Rockets will offer him $16M in February. Yule C.

 

€10M in three years is MORE than what Rockets were offering DMo. Those 10M are guaranteed and post taxes. Rockets' 7M is pre taxes and then there's years after that, non guaranteed, also pre taxes. Rockets offer was low and with to of uncertainty.

 

DMo going to be the highest paid player in Europe now?

 

Why would he? I'm just correcting the guy who gave impression that 3 years 10 million Euro in Europe is a bad deal.

 

Yeah, i mean, players in the nba are basically contracts, everyone is literally always tradable if/when the right deal is available...Ainge didn't think twice to trade away Pierce when the right deal was on the table, Riley just let Wade go without a problem...

 

I thought players in Texas don't pay taxes. How reliable are your sources about what the Rockets offered to Motiejunas? Just heard about $7M but not about length or guaranteed money.

Also, Shved got this kind of deal because he was in shape and already made himself a name in Russia and the EuroLeague. Motiejunas won't get such a deal and he will neither be offered a long term contract. Like I wrote, European teams have their Rosters set and only a few could afford him anyways.

 

I'm sure the Rockets would happily sign DMO to a 3 year $10 million contract lol.

 

I'm sure Rockets would happily sign DMO to 3 years 10 million pesos too.

 

Let's not pretend now that 7 mil only first year guaranteed is a great deal. It is actually ludicrous and insulting compared to what others got this season. Since he didn't sign his QO why not go all in now? Wait to be RFA next season when the circumstances will be better.
The Rockets are doing their job by trying to get him to sign such a cheap deal, and DMO is doing his job by trying to get the best situation for himself.
7 mil only one year guaranteed is a horrible situation. I can name 50 scrubs that have better contracts than that.

 

Yeah but you can still mix them up, play Trez at the 5, start Wiltjer and go "smaller" with Dekker early in the game...but again, i agree that D.Mo would help us, i like him and i would love to have him back, i just don't think that overall we'll be better enough to reach a better result as a team.

 

For it to be an equivalent deal it would have to be something like 3/24 fully guaranteed....and he'd probably sign that too.

 

That's also true tbh.

 

wrong. NBA players even in Texas pay taxes because they play about half their games outside of texas. They pay less than nba players from teams in other states.
I don't expect DMO to get a contract like Shved from a Euroleague team at this point in the season.

 

I'd be butt hurt too

Ridiculous how Morey would give Ryan 18 a year and only offer Dmo 7

 

I 'm with the rockets position

Dmo has to prove that he is healty. 7M is a lot of money even for him. He hasnt made so much money in al his career.
If he plays great the worst case scenario the rockets pick his option and he plays a second year for another 7 or 8 million. and the he will be 26 and cam sign a wonderfull contract.
If he doesnt sign is because he knows he isnt healty.

 

He won't make $7 million in Europe this season and I doubt the offers will come flooding in next offseason. This offseason SVG, who was in love with DMo, didn't even look in DMo's direction and gave $40+ million to Jon Leuer. Even if he does get a big offer the Rockets will have the option to match. Next summer, Morey should offer nothing and just tell DMo to get the contract he couldn't get this offseason. Good luck with that.

 

No. The worst case scenario for HIM is that he plays well but then his back flares up. The Rockets cut him and he only gets 7 million on this contract. Then the other team will wait for him to rehab and then sign him for a vet min. Or be completely out of the league. It's not hard to fall out of the league if you have some injuries. And then his NBA carreer is over.
That's why guaranteed $ is so important for him.