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The Miles · 10-23-2004, 02:16 AM

Exactly. 7 footers get overpaid. A guy like Mbenga who is a great athlete, hard worker, nice guy, coachable, etc...will demand high dollar. History proves it. Look at the centers in the past, just to name a few.

Jim McIlvane
Isaac Austin
Mark Blount
Mehmet Okur

Those are the first four that jumped out of my head in terms of being relatively unproven yet highly paid. The good news is that we can keep Mbenga if he is viewed like Blount was. The problem is that Benga is only 23 years old, so he has that potential tag that Okur has that raises his value even higher.

But we have him for two years for sure. I am ready to enjoy those times now and worry later.

10-23-2004, 02:16 AM	#26
The Miles Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 886	RE: question on MBenga's contract? Exactly. 7 footers get overpaid. A guy like Mbenga who is a great athlete, hard worker, nice guy, coachable, etc...will demand high dollar. History proves it. Look at the centers in the past, just to name a few. Jim McIlvane Isaac Austin Mark Blount Mehmet Okur Those are the first four that jumped out of my head in terms of being relatively unproven yet highly paid. The good news is that we can keep Mbenga if he is viewed like Blount was. The problem is that Benga is only 23 years old, so he has that potential tag that Okur has that raises his value even higher. But we have him for two years for sure. I am ready to enjoy those times now and worry later. __________________ "When you (Coach Johnson) get behind your players like that it’s something special. He’s the general and we are soldiers, you go out there and want to lay it all on the line…that’s the type of situation I wanted to be in."-Doug Christie