AB wants to get good pay. How much should his new contract be? I think it should be 7 - 8M per year for 4 - 5 years.
1. Are we talking starting salary or average salary? 2. Very hard to say without knowing what the new CBA landscape will be. It's hard to even hypothesize in a world without a CBA negotiation looming. I think Morey speaks to this point in this quote: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/7222730.html Brooks is probably worth more than the MLE. If he was a free agent last summer, I think he would have gotten at least what Raymond Felton got -- around $7m to start. In some other offseason though, he might have had no choice but to take the MLE because teams with cap space going after other positions with their money. The NBA isn't big enough for the market price to closely reflect the real value of the player.
haha so would i!!, but u know once u get that 1.5mil, ur gonna want more.....thats why money is the root of all evil.
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One of them is obviously going to go, and I can't imagine how you could see him as just a $7mil man. He's probably going to average 20 a game this season while increasing his assists. Him and Martin worked really well together and they'll keep it going. If we offer $7 million, another team will gladly offer more, and I and many other fans wouldn't be happy about that. I've said it before and I'll say it again, as much as Morey is a business man, there is always a human element to anything that you do that involves people. Brooks is a person as much as he is a basketball player. I also understand why Brooks is worrying with the upcoming lockout. Some individuals act as if it's no big deal for him to give up millions waiting, but I'm sure it is. Personally, I want Brooks to stay on the Rockets; even if it means that Lowry is history.
Lowry is the baseline, but Morey is already indicating that he doesn't see it that way. If push comes to shove, Brooks should be traded, without hesitation, which is probably what's going to happen.
