ESPN: Donatas Motiejunas won't report to Rockets cause of $6M difference

They didn't want to avoid this. They want to maximize earnings power. DMo is prepared to honor the contract he signed.

 

There is no standard or non-standard here. Morey can choose to match incentives.....or not. He chose not to. That's his prerogative under the current CBA. It's also DMo's prerogative not to show up. There no CBA rule against what he's doing.

 

My example was amazing. I'm hiring someone to do something I know nothing about. I'm trusting them to do a job I don't know how to do. I have to research and find out if they can do that job..

 

If that was the case, and Morey just made an "amateurish" mistake, he would say, "Sorry guys, here is the new contract we are offering you which matches the old one that the Nets offered you including the incentives." Morey is not locked into the matched contract. He can negotiate a new deal anytime.

 

Ohh thank you for the news flash. Didn't follow the NBA until March so I wouldn't know about NBA trades that did or didn't happen.

You insinuated that the Pistons and Rockets conspired together "all the way back in February". You can't weasel your way out of that one dude. But that's all part of the Jopat method isn't it. Never say things direct. Insinuate and then modulate so you can never be wrong about anything.

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Also per the first post quoted here.... Maybe Morey didn't understand the implications of the incentives, but it benefits the Rockets either way so why the F would it matter? As it pertains to D-Mo, Its still the job of the AGENT to understand the CBA, and NBA contracts so the player doesn't have to deal with it, and they can catch things that hurt the player.... like this player incentive stuff... which FYI, were always noted as "unlikely" incentives which was also noted about THE CONTRACT THAT MOREY WROTE FOR D-MO HIMSELF a few weeks back before the self imposed deadline. You're really jumping through hoops to modulate if you are trying to make a case that Morey himself didn't understand the very contract that he wrote up weeks ago to understand right to refusal, and player incentives.

But keep on fighting the good fight there Jopat/Hollic/BJ whoever you are.

 

Castor, you don't get it. You're looking straight past the truth here. Rockets are not required to honor the incentives. They can strike them. And DMo can no show the physical.

Those things have happened. What's important us where does this head next? It's headed straight to jan. 10 and a full guarantee for this season. Rockets will have to change that beforehand or DMo will show up for his physical and lock in the full years salary.

 

6 million dollars? I think we can cover that with the tip jar. Can we start a gofundme campaign for D-Mo?

I WANT MY SIX MILLION DOLLARS!

 

BJ Armstrong just inspired me to get in the sports management field.
If he can do it so can I!
Thx career point!

 

Research HARDER *clap, clap*

 

Owners hires coach with good resume, if coach can't transform a **** team into a playoff contender who is to be blame? GM, Owner and Coach. Everyone gets the blame, hence why they're upper management, comes with the job(browns team -snicker). D-mo's situation, he's his own boss, he has the "right" to choose who he wants to represent him, pretty sure he did his research. It is his fault as the agent's fault for this fiasco, he should have fired the agent already.

 

I'm sure he is...that was my point - his agent, if he didn't do so, should have informed Dmo, that the Rockets might only match the principle terms and that they didn't have to agree to the incentives as negotiated in the Nets offer sheet. So before signing the offer sheet, they could have renegotiated (at least tried to) or waited for Utah, who supposedly would have offered more money - either way they could have tried to maximise Dmo's earning power that way...which would have been the smart way to do it.

 

Don't feed the troll!!

 

Don't mess with jopatyc.

 

This is the case of an MIT education vs a college athlete education.

Dork Elvis needs to stay cold and calculating like always, because "this is strictly business Tom". BJ is way out of his league and it really hurts to see Donatas tangled up in a losing battle. He has gone from a potential 20 million a year contract, to 15, to 10, to 7, with very little guaranteed, and it is sad to watch it dwindle away.

See you in March Donatas, when your value will decrease even more. Daryl will focus on what really matters, our second perimeter star to go with James.

 

...my gawd. I just lost some brain cells.

 

100 percent agree. get a new agent DMo

 

That's an assumption on your part. The target dates might not be part of Principal Terms to match. I tend to agree that they probably are.

It is also an assumption on your part that the league prevents the Incumbent team to match yet renegotiate a more palatable contract for the disgruntled Player, as a simultaneous cancel FERM and sign new contract in a closed meeting in a room. Surely the Union would not object. What Utah would?

If those two obstacles are valid, and there is no way around signing new Principal Terms without giving Utah a chance, then Morey just doesn't do it, and DMo is stuck with the Incentive negotiations solely.

 

This whole thing can be viewed as "D-Mo is threatening to play basketball again at some point". Great....well....can I go back to holding my breathe?