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For those previously unaware, Larry Hughes sucks ass and gets paid a disproportionally huge sum of money to do it.

As Chicago Bulls fans, we're more tolerant of this than you might think, for a few reasons:

a) Drew Gooden is a legend, which numbs the pain
b) Larry Hughes isn't Ben Wallace, so that's an improvement
c) He hasn't been here long enough to build up the truly unshiftable hatred yet
d) It can't be for that long.....

This doesn't mean, though, that we don't want to shift his fastbreak-ruining, needlessly-jumping-sideways-on=open-jumpshots ass at the first opportunity.



Hughes's contract confuses the bollocks off me, though. It's well documented that he has incentives int he contract based around team win totals, and whatever the threshold is for that (I believe it's 50), Chicago isn't going to get anywhere near it this summer. So the incentives should be considered unlikely for next year.

But were they considered likely for this year? Cleveland did, after all, win 50, and yet Hughes is still apparently getting $12,000,084 this season, which I thought was his base, incentive-less salary.

So, what's the deal here? Does that salary go up, down, or neither? Please say down. Oh pretty please say down.

I believe the level was 47 wins in years past.

While Hughes achieved his bonus for last year, his bonuses for this year appear to be considered as unlikely by the league (even before he was traded from Cleveland), so it looks like he's gonna get the base salary Sham indicated in the opening post.

As for Gary Hughes, he's still washing dishes at Manny's Diner on Route 73 just outside Middleton. He does get a bonus based on how few plates and glasses he breaks each month.

Dunkenstein wrote:While Hughes achieved his bonus for last year, his bonuses for this year appear to be considered as unlikely by the league (even before he was traded from Cleveland), so it looks like he's gonna get the base salary Sham indicated in the opening post.

This is the bit that I don't get - why is he getting the base salary this year $12,000,084) if they were considered likely?

Sham wrote:This is the bit that I don't get - why is he getting the base salary this year $12,000,084) if they were considered likely?

What was considered likely? His bonuses for this year were considered unlikely.

Oh.

Why's that, if it was based on 47-50 wins and Cleveland won 50 last year?

Sham wrote:Oh.

Why's that, if it was based on 47-50 wins and Cleveland won 50 last year?

I don't know. Maybe the bonuses are based on different criteria this year than they were last year. As it has been explained to me, the amount of the bonuses that can be achieved have to remain consistent each year of the contract, but the requirements to achieve them can change from year to year.

All I know is that since the beginning of the year, Hughes's bonuses for this season have been considered unlikely.

Well that's pissed on my strawberries. Never mind then.

Friggin' Danny Ferry.