Childress receives 3 year 20 million

[aznkillabeezZz]

Only scrubs will go to play overseas. When Dwyane Wade's contract is up on 2010 I am pretty sure he won't be going to play overseas regardless of how much money they offer him.

Superstars like wade will stay in the NBA regardless of how much money foreign teams offer them. Because staying in the NBA, they get more endorsements and sponsors from it, which foreign teams can't match or make up for.. But average players like Childress probably can

Why?

You think there aren't European corporations? Italy doesn't have a Nike of their own? Spain doesn't have their own Expedia? The ONLY reason, 5 years from now, American-born basketball players will choose to stay here is "but mah momma/wife don't want to go to Russia".

Welcome to the world of economic reality.

(And that's what you get for voting for Chippy McDumbAss. Want to know where your favorite NBA player went? Follow the exchange rate. It will lead you directly to Halliburton headquarters.)

Mods: Feel free to delete this and ban me for a day or 2. I'm a bit more chippy than usual. Sorry.

NBA is a global brand though. It still attracts more sponsors and endorsements for players. A Lebron and Wade wouldn't be getting the same amount of endorsements and ads globally if they're not in a top tier NBA team and playing in the top league. Yeah, Italy has european corporations and Nike brands to support the players ...but the game isn't as developed and globally popular there, it's just the locals..

But it definitely will attract the carl landrys mo evans and josh childress's that aren't really the faces of their team

[HTown_TMac]

If NBA players keep jolting overseas you will see more endorsements with the money as you would see over here.. (If the players change the way it is over there) If you know what I mean.

[Lakers_4_Life]

Just to let you guys get a better grasp. That's 3 years €20 million, not $20 million. And it's after taxes, not before taxes like an NBA contract. It's equal to a 3 year $56 million gross NBA contract according to what Childress and his agent said in Greece. NBA contracts are all gross.

I've been telling you guys here for awhile how incredibly much Rockets fan slagged off the Greek League and how ill-informed you guys are about it. Some of the Greek clubs are extremely wealthy. In fact teams like Olympiacos and Panathinaikos could sign several players at this kind of money if they wanted. So could Panionios but their owner won't spend anything, still he's a billionaire too.

Rockets fans just have a totally unfair opinion of the Greek League.

[moofs]

Heh, our whole country is losing out like that to Europe and Asia both. Why should we care that we pissed off some Greek basketball club? The things you're talking about are at least partly symptoms of bigger economic woes. Our guys in charge are screwing us all for some nice short-term windfall profits that only benefit them. I'll worry about pissing off some basketball team well after I finish worrying about the dollar teetering on the brink, the massive micromanaging societal controls that some of our guys in charge would like to put in place, and being hated in a general sense all over the globe. The only reason China hasn't squashed us yet is because we're their biggest customer.

Let's all stop now to give peanuthead a big round of applause.

You can't blame Rockets fans for having an unfair opinion of the Greek league either. Most of them know roughly the following at most: Jake Tsakalidis and Vassillis Spanoulis have played here, some really really big Baby Shaq guy whose name is unpronounceable might have almost been about to come over here, and I think they are all Greek. Unless you know where to look and care to invest time in it for some reason, and maybe even are able to read a foreign language, you have: American media, which [shock and awe] primarily or exclusively only covers American sports/news/anything. The rest of the world doesn't exist, even though they're currently kicking our ass at absolutely everything. A lot of people are still convinced that "we are the greatest country in the world!!!" even as we're approaching a state of being a coast-to-coast corporatist shopping mall/Wal-Mart.

The whole "Service-based" economy schtick strikes me as being about as trustworthy as early 1900's door-to-door medicine (or modern medicine for that matter).

[stillmatic73088]

Heh, our whole country is losing out like that to Europe and Asia both. Why should we care that we pissed off some Greek basketball club? The things you're talking about are at least partly symptoms of bigger economic woes. Our guys in charge are screwing us all for some nice short-term windfall profits that only benefit them. I'll worry about pissing off some basketball team well after I finish worrying about the dollar teetering on the brink, the massive micromanaging societal controls that some of our guys in charge would like to put in place, and being hated in a general sense all over the globe. The only reason China hasn't squashed us yet is because we're their biggest customer.

Let's all stop now to give peanuthead a big round of applause.

You can't blame Rockets fans for having an unfair opinion of the Greek league either. Most of them know roughly the following at most: Jake Tsakalidis and Vassillis Spanoulis have played here, some really really big Baby Shaq guy whose name is unpronounceable might have almost been about to come over here, and I think they are all Greek. Unless you know where to look and care to invest time in it for some reason, and maybe even are able to read a foreign language, you have: American media, which [shock and awe] primarily or exclusively only covers American sports/news/anything. The rest of the world doesn't exist, even though they're currently kicking our ass at absolutely everything. A lot of people are still convinced that "we are the greatest country in the world!!!" even as we're approaching a state of being a coast-to-coast corporatist shopping mall/Wal-Mart.

The whole "Service-based" economy schtick strikes me as being about as trustworthy as early 1900's door-to-door medicine (or modern medicine for that matter).

co-sign to the fullest. People here still think we are the greatest country in the world. American's live in an american state of mind not a global state of mind. Just look @ what we call the super bowl champs and nba champs every year. As soon as they win we here "the boston celtics are the world champions", because to americans this is the world. We have the greatest standard of living(not true) and if anyone comes along we'll crush them. I find it's usually conservatives who think this way but as a whole I STILL think most americans feel this way. We aren't blind to how the euro leagues work, we just dont care.

[moofs]

(Hell most people, myself included until recently, don't even realize that we don't even have 3 branches of government anymore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_bra ... government - administrative agencies section)