Very interesting clauses in the Offer Sheet. This is a must read from Woj. It's almost like Morey wrote this Offer Sheet for the Nets Like @Shroopy2 says, this contract is like a deal Morey rights up for Second Rounders, just with Veteran pay. Guaranteed money early, but very team friendly throughout. ------------------------------------------------------------- http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources-donatas-motiejunas-signs-offer-sheet-with-nets-005834304.html The Brooklyn Nets have signed Houston Rockets restricted free-agent forward Donatas Motiejunas to a four-year and likely $35 million offer sheet, league sources told The Vertical. The terms of the offer sheet are rife with protections against recurring back problems that have sidelined Motiejunas and could make it even more palatable for the Rockets to match and retain the 7-footer. The contract delivers the ability to void the final two years of the contract, as well as an opportunity to bail on the second season before the end of the 2016-17 season, league sources told The Vertical. The offer sheet has Motiejunas earning $5 million upon the signing of the contract, and the team has to decide by Jan. 10 whether to pay him another $3.5 million for the remainder of the 2016-17 season, league sources said. By March 1, the team has to pick up the option for $9 million owed to Motiejunas for the 2017-18 season, sources said. The final two years of the contract are non-guaranteed, league sources said, which means the team can cut Motiejunas loose without paying the balance of the contract. Before the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons, there’s a July 7 trigger date to make a decision on Motiejunas’ deal. Each of the four years includes $1 million in likely bonuses, and $500,000 in unlikely bonuses, sources said. The Nets delivered the offer sheet electronically to the Rockets on Friday night, and Houston has until midnight Tuesday to match the offer sheet and retain Motiejunas. Concerns over recurring back issues – which included surgery to repair a ruptured disk in 2015 – impacted the interest NBA teams had in signing Motiejunas, 26, to an offer sheet over the summer. If acquired, Nets general manager Sean Marks and coach Kenny Atkinson view Motiejunas as a power forward playing beside center Brook Lopez. Houston had been offering a deal in the $8 million range annually, but talks had been sparse between the sides for months. Motiejunas, who played 37 games a year ago following surgery, and the Rockets had been unable to come to terms on an agreement, causing the 7-footer to miss training camp and Houston’s 12-7 start to the regular season. Coach Mike D’Antoni has been eager to incorporate Motiejunas into the Rockets’ frontcourt and join the current No. 4 seed in the Western Conference. The uncertainty around Houston’s willingness to agree to a long-term deal with Motiejunas was because of his back issues. Motiejunas was examined by Nets doctors recently, league sources said, and the results gave comfort to Brooklyn to move forward with the offer sheet. For the Nets, this is the third restricted free agent offer sheet executed under Marks. July offer sheets to Portland guard Allen Crabbe (four years, $75 million) and Miami guard Tyler Johnson (four years, $50 million) were matched. With a franchise devoid of draft picks and talent, Marks has been determined to find creative ways to improve the Nets’ roster. Taking a shot at Motiejunas is a pre-emptive move on next summer’s free agent market. The Rockets had a three-way trade that would’ve sent Motiejunas to Detroit voided last season. The Pistons doctors failed Motiejunas on his physical exam because of the back.
Well, hindsight is 20-20, right? You are right that it's barely a better deal compared to what DMo would have gotten if he signed the lowball offer before the start of the season. But it's a much better deal if you compare it to what DMo would have gotten if he signed it on November 22nd for example.
But the last deal was $7m with likely incentives that got it to $8m. He's getting only $8.5m in this first year, via a signing bonus, as it reads These aren't lowball deals...it is Market, now that we see Nets signed him to nearly the same thing, especially when you consider the $825k in income tax he'll pay in NJ.
Wondering how much all of this had to do with him not being on trade block during deadline again, i mean, he can't be traded unless he agrees to it. That trade with Pistons and all of their false info must hurt him BAD.
That's assuming Morey wasn't offering him a signing bonus too, to make up for lost wages. We all never considered a signing bonus.
I read the first year structure as a signing bonus to make up for lost wages, than a test of his health. He's getting $5m upfront versus losing $2.125m for lost wages. So, without the bonus, he would have only gotten $6.375m this year anyhow (based on $8.5m quoted as first year total). So, he has the likely opportunity to make much more this year than possible. So, in exchange for opportunity to not lose any wages this year, the team can (but likely won't) stop further payments on Jan 1st. (If I read the CBA correctly, the signing bonus can only be 10% of total compensation to include the bonus itself, so not all that $5m can be a bonus. And it essentially means his later years are not operating at $37m divided by 4 math, as some of that 37 is for the bonus.)
I feel like Detroit should be put on the media's spotlight a little bit, for fake failing DMo's medical. Since prior to that medical and after it Rockets cleared DMo healthy to play and now Nets did too. At the time I was ~80% sure it was because they hit a 3 game slump right after the trade and saw how potentially good of a pick they were sending to Houston and decided to void trade and it had very little to do with DMo's health concerns. Now I'm 100% sure. But I guess it will be forgotten and ignored, just like Beno Udrich and Miami Heat wink wink bullshit.
This. Detriod trade void basically cut down all possible good contract for DMo. Even when DMo was back after injury he wasn't that bad as some people likes to show. When DMo was playing Rockets looked way better. Just because he was little to slow after not playing for a long time, he didn't do anything bad that could massively hurt his future compared to what Detroit did...
Can @heypartner do a chronological order of all _holic's post regarding DMo on the 200+ pages of the various threads since the off season? I need poop material and the twists and turns of the posts may help with my constipation issues.
That's good, but he's also going to be hold by the balls for the next four years (if the Rockets don't match), could've been better.
