GreenHat wrote:Stellar enough that someone is going to offer him 5 million a season or something that the Heat would not match?
Obviously Spoelstra and his agent don't think as highly of him as you think everyone else does, otherwise why would they take such a small deal when they could get a much bigger one in the offseason?
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Expert in coaching field: Spoelstra could have gotten more if he had gone "free agent" next summer. "He would have been incredibly pursued."
He took a 2yr/6 million extension. If his reputation is as good as you think it is, then that's a dumb move by Spo taking such a small offer.
That's assuming a lot. It assumed the Spoelstra doesn't value anything other than money. That he doesn't value the security of having a number of guaranteed deals, that he doesn't value coaching the most talented team in the league, that he doesn't value living and working in the same city that he's lived in and worked in for the last ~2 decades, that he doesn't value working for his mentor who also happens to be one of the best basketball minds, basically, ever.
Those things all might be worth more to Spoelstra than waiting out a year to get the fattest pay check possible.
He also might have no interest in bidding up the Heat and tainting his relationship with Riley and the organization as a result.
We are even money to win the championship and if Spo won a ring he would have gotten a much bigger deal with the Heat and plenty of other offers from other teams. Even if they don't win it all and the Heat fire him he could have gotten MINIMUM 2yr/5million from other teams if he is so highly regarded around the league. Looks like Spo and his agent are betting against him this year and his reputation around the league.
LOL this is so ridiculous. Or they simply are happy in Miami and want the security of having a number of years guaranteed, and also not want to coach as a lame duck
If your argument is that Spo would want to stay here, then giving him more guaranteed money was even more of an unnecessary financial risk. He would stay here anyway and the risk of losing him was minimal at best.
This is an awful way to run a business. Your suggestion, then, is that Miami ought to treat its employees as badly as it possibly can get away with. LOL, yeah, that's a great strategy.
Your thinking on this makes sense if everyone involved cares about nothing but money to the exclusion of all else. I think at this point its pretty obvious Spoelstra and Riley both care about things other than that.
