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Originally Posted by chumdawg
Good job by Phoenix. They nabbed him for much less than we had to pay Daniels a couple years back--and Barbosa is far the superior player.
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Define much less. Daniels signed a 6 year deal at the full MLE. Barbosa signed a 5 year deal (the max allowable) for a number that should be pretty close to the full MLE in 2007.
I think what this means is that they're going to have to shed some salary at some point. If you assume that Diaw makes $9MM in 2007-2008 (not too much of a stretch) Sarver will be on the hook for about $76MM that year.
That's why this contract suprised me. The money isn't bad in today's NBA but you have to put first things first and lock up Diaw before you do anything else.