How big a contact would it take to get Sergio Llull on the Rockets today?

you would need Llull to decline the 6 year extension Real Madrid offered him.

 

We don't need him

 

Who knows. I'm guessing around MLE money for him to even considering coming over.

Madrid is currently destroying all of Europe. They are the best team by far. Their games are usually over by half time, which is why their bench players end up playing more than their starters. They've been winning games most of their games by 30 points or more, even against good European teams. Couple of wins in the 50-60 points area, I think. Totally nuts.

 

I'm actually a big Llull fan, but I dont really see him making a huge upgrade from the Lin/Bev combo. He's a much improved 3 point shooter from when he first starting playing professionally, and can play some pesky defense, but IMO he's still not really someone you want running the point for you long term. You'd probably want him in more of the 6th man role coming off the bench which is what Lin is really excelling at now.


As for contract, here is BimaThugs' previous answer to this question before the Dwight signing from this thread

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=240422

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He's the leader of the team for Real Madrid and they're doing a great job over there. So I don't think he'll come over

 

I couldn't tell ya. I don't think anybody knows how serious Llull is about joining the NBA, even the folks covering the ACB/Euroleague. I follow the Euroleague scene, but I've only seen one of their games so far. You usually don't hear much chatter about guys like Llull considering the NBA. He's obviously in a very good situation.

I wanna say Bo McCalebb was offered (near) MLE money to join the NBA and declined to play in Turkey. And he's from the US, obviously. I don't think it's a safe bet Llull would take the MLE, if offered to him, but I'm totally speculating.
I don't think anybody knows for sure. I know Jonathan Givony was tweeting a while ago about Llull not being all that interested in coming over anytime soon, which very well could be true, though it's usually a fluid situation with these sort of things.

 

Would I want to give him 4 years 30 million.... hell no... not even if they had to cap space to do so. There is no guarantee he's even going to transition well to the NBA and make a huge difference on this team. 3 years 10 million is pushing it. For the amount of money he's worth in the NBA vs. what he's making in Europe on the team he is on, and the role he has, its just not really worth it to splurge to get a player you have no idea is even going to be impactful.

However, a team like say the Knicks this Summer maybe that's a good situation for Llull, and he works out as a nice sweetener in a Shumpert trade, or something kind of deal like that. I dont think Llull agrees to come to the Rockets and I dont think they agree to pay him what he wants (on top of the hefty buyout), if Lin is still on this roster, and they want Canaan/Bev as part of their future. You can do much better with your mid level this Summer elsewhere.

Unless Lin is traded, I think Llull really should only be viewed as a nice trade sweetener to a team that wants to make him their PG this Summer or a big part of their PG rotation.

However dont be surprised if Morey still has conversations with his folks this Summer either way though, and dont be surprised if his name is brought up in the case of a Lin trade.

 

There's no guarantee he even wants to come play in the NBA. Has he recently said so...??? Many Europeans don't want to play in the NBA because it's so physical. But it took Morey along time just to get Bev out of Europe. I don't see Alexander flipping the bill to get him.

 

€5M buyout ($6,724,500)

 

2.5M buyout, will not gonna happen . The teams only pay about 0.800M to the buyout, the rest is the player contract, Llull has a great contract in Spain, losing money it is not an option.

 

If we can pay this money, will offer to the different player, maybe in 2015