I know the contract he signed is is good for the team but from looking from his view, I don't understand how from Chase Budinger to Parsons why in earth would you sign a non guarantee 4 year contract when being a 2nd round pick you can sign a 1 or 2 year deal and get a bigger contract before the 1st rounders. The way he is playing this year, he would of gotten at least the same posin pill contract as Fields.
Occum's razor. The simplest answer is generally the correct one. Parsons make more per year than every single 2nd round pick before him.
The Rockets have MUCH, MUCH higher bargaining potential next year on an extension with a option rather than RFA. If the Rockets want to retain Parsons long term for as cheap as possible, a 4th year TO is so much better in negotations it's not even funny.
WTF? First of all the Rockets already did him a major solid by: 1) Drafting him (high chance Parsons would be undrafted) 2) Giving him money comparable to a low first rounder. That's money and an option he didn't have to get, if you don't remember Landry was signed to just a 1-2 year deal when he was signed as a 2nd rounder. Secondly, look at his salary. Chandler's making almost a mill a year....at age 24. He's making more in 1 year than most people would make in their lifetime, so forgive me if I'm not crying tears for how "underpaid" Parsons is Finally, the NBA isn't a charity it's a business. Just as players don't release teams from their contract when they become overpaid, teams shouldn't release players when they're underpaid. Not only that Parsons is on his rookie scale contract, why should the team release from that just because they want to throw money around? It would set a horrible precedent, and then you'd have Shabazz Muhammed demanding his team release him from his rookie scale and sign him to a max in his 2nd year. P.S. Carlos Boozer says hi.
Taxes dood. Agent fees, increased expenses during your pro career due to the 'pro athlete lifestyle' (which you can minimize but impossible to completely avoid) That becomes $80,000 yr, pretty much your average middle class family salary in a big/medium city. Except since you receive a lump sum instead of gradual, you tend to spend it quicker since it feels like you'll be rich forever and knowing athletes arent the best money managers, a lot become broke/working class instead of living comfortably.
Chandler is going anywhere. He is part of a core group which are all young and have a chance to establish a nice foundation for a very long , long while to come.
Yes, but the Rockets hold his full bird-right then. Just offer him a good contract straight up, and it'll be fine. Morey has been considered good at accessing players' value, right?
Royce White makes more than Parsons this year and next lolz...and i made a thread like this and got roasted as well so OP don't get down on yourself...I think it was named "Could Parsons take money from a max player next year" but I don't think that no one heard of extensions
Like you say later on, the NBA isn't a charity. As if Chandler's the only one benefiting from the situation. Landry got paid earlier too. It was a good situation for him. The rest of the issues were tackled already. Read the rest of the thread.
Well first of all the contract is agreed upon by two parties, mostly what happens is Houston makes a offer and the player (with his agent) can either accept the deal, reject the deal or ask for some modifications. Obviously the contract was slanted towards the Rox however we don't know how the negotiations went. Perhaps one reason Parsons is making late first rounder money is the team offered more money straight up as incentive for the options. Nobody (possibly even DM) could have predicted Parsons would play as well as he has, otherwise he wouldn't have gone in the 2nd round. Since he doesn't know how well he would do, from a $$$ standpoint it's far better to get more guaranteed money now than gamble that he'd make a better payday in 2 years. It's not like Landry wanted just a 2 year rookie contract so he could make more in year 3 onwards, it's that the Rox thought he might be out of the league in 2 years so they only offered him that.
It wasn't a good situation for him though, you're judging Landry's contract by hindsight. If you're LBJ or Rose, then you want your rookie contract to expire quicker so you'll get paid more earlier. But say you're an unknown like Parsons or Landry, and DM offers you two contracts: 2 year deal worth 600k each or 4 year deal worth 800k each, with 2 years team option Are you really gonna be stupid enough to turn down 400k extra and gamble that'd you make more on year 3? Something like 90% of second rounders are out of the league once their contract expires, what if you become a bust and don't get signed? What if you get injured or buried at the end of the bench for two years? If your contract expired then the team could offer a really lowball contract and then you'd be stuck making 2-3M the next 5 year, instead of making it big on year 3. Look at what happened to Aaron Brooks, he couldn't wait to make big money once his rookie contract expires but bad luck and injury caused him to miss his payday and he actually got stuck playing first in the CBA and now for Sacramento at a really low salary.
That there is a contract isn't a question. The idea is that Landry got paid to his output, right when he was about to hit his prime. The team has the ability to give Chandler the same opportunity by not picking up his option, regardless of whether or not Chandler contemplated he'd be outperforming his contract at such a capacity. The contract should be honored, sure; though, I may be the first to step into the lot that thinks players should be able to renegotiate such bargains, with consideration to their age. It feels like the right thing to do.
If Parsons had reject the deal then he would be playing overseas right now. Thats how Morey gets players to sign away 4 years on the cheap.
What? Pardon me but, considering you registered here Nov 2012, I'm thinking you're a LOF who's making an opinion about me rather than the topic. What're you disagreeing about? I can't really say enthusiasm is the main reason I made this thread.
