3 Million "Crazy" Money?

Maybe I am taking this out of context, maybe not. But according to Newy Scruggs, the Mavs had a chance to get the Spurs 27th pick for 3 Million dollars.

"For $3 million of Mark Cuban’s money, he could have bought the pick from the Spurs and made Arthur a Maverick.

Nope, no deal. The Mavs just waited for their turn at 51 in the second round and drafted a kid who looks like the singer Usher. Shan Foster was the SEC Player of the Year at Vanderbilt. He can play some guard and forward and shoot it well from long range."

Though they make the arguement for Arthur, I still think that moving up to get CDR would have been better. When reports came out that teams were asking for "crazy money", I was thinking in the 5-8 million dollar range.

over 3 years ago Toddy 8 comments 0 recs |

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That's bullshit....

A lottery pick falls, and even though he has bust written all over you take a chance on a lottery pick for 3 mill. Or you take CDR if you wanted to. Unbelievable, I don’t like where this franchise is headed….

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"

by sprite on Jun 28, 2008 12:57 PM CDT reply actions

Ugh...

If true, Cuban really screwed to pooch here…

Darrell Arthur, Billy Walker, DeAndre Jordan, Chris Douglas-Roberts…

Hell, even guys like DJ White, Donte Green, Mario Chalmers…

SEVERAL guys were available at that point that could have helped turn this ship back around…

3 million bucks is the going-rate every single year for draft picks in that range, so why is it crazy money this year? Can’t help but feel like we were being fed a line of crap with all the talk about being “as active as we’ve ever been” from management leading up to the draft…

by N41D on Jun 28, 2008 5:44 PM CDT reply actions

Suns

Last year they sold the 24th to Portland for….. 3 milllion.

So ‘crazy money’ or not, that is the going rate.

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by Wes Cox on Jun 29, 2008 10:20 AM CDT reply actions

thats what I thought

when they said crazy money, I was thinking 4,5,6 million for those picks. Not including the fact that we would have to sign those players to a 1-2 million dollar deal. THEN, add up we are over the cap, so their salary is essentially doubled, so even if we were to have gotten one of those picks at 3 mil, best case scenario it would have cost the Mavs 5-6 million on a rookie who could be a hit or miss. Pretty risky, but I would argue that given our current situation, it is one you have to make.

by Toddy on Jun 29, 2008 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions

Isn't there some kind of rookie exception?

Where it doesn’t matter if you are over the cap or not, you don’t have to pay the tax on those contracts.

The talent that is Josh Hamilton.

by srdmad on Jun 29, 2008 1:52 PM CDT reply actions

nope

by Toddy on Jun 29, 2008 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions

Then could you explain this. This was posted a while ago.

The Rookie Exception- It would suck big-time if a team was so over the cap that it couldn’t even pay its drafted players. The Rookie Exception, also known as the The Mercy Rule for the Knickerbockers of New York, allows scaled rookie contracts regardless of cap situation.

The talent that is Josh Hamilton.

by srdmad on Jun 30, 2008 4:35 PM CDT reply actions