Brook Lopez to sign 4-year, $61 million contract with Nets

[BudweiserCeltic]

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
Y! Sources: As time's running out on a Howard deal for Brooklyn, Brook Lopez nears agreement on max contract with Nets.

[celtsfan84]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

[action781]

Yesssss, send Dwight out west!

[j804]

Yesssss, send Dwight out west!

This doesn't mean they're planning to keep him does it?

[Who]

Happy Dwight isn't going to New Jersey.

Takes a lot of pressure off of Danny in filling out that depth at the center position.

[Prof. Clutch]

Wow, this has really turned out to be an interesting off-season so far.  A lot of twists and turns already and it's only a little over a week and a half old.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

[JSD]

Some awfully short sighted comments being made by some distinguished posters in here, though I understand some may have already conceded that the Laker franchise will surpass the Celtic franchise in the title count.

If Howard ends up anywhere but LA, I'm happy.

[celtsfan84]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

No, I don't.  Why do you ask?

[BudweiserCeltic]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

No, I don't.  Why do you ask?

Well, the starting amount of the contract is MAX $12,922,194, so we'll have to see what the details of this agreement is.

But for the time being, he'd be making that amount next season.

[celtsfan84]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

No, I don't.  Why do you ask?

Well, the starting amount of the contract is MAX $12,922,194, so we'll have to see what the details of this agreement is.

But for the time being, he'd be making that amount next season.

No, the maximum for a player of his experience is 5 years for 78 million.  About 16 million per year.  So if he is making 13 on the front end of it, he'll be making 18 or 19 on the back end of it.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

No, I don't.  Why do you ask?

Well, the starting amount of the contract is MAX $12,922,194, so we'll have to see what the details of this agreement is.

But for the time being, he'd be making that amount next season.

No, the maximum for a player of his experience is 25% of the cap. Which is 14.5 million this season.  And he is eligible for 7.5% annual raises.  Which gets him in the 18 million range by the end of the deal.

It's not exactly 25% of the cap, it ends up being lower. And considering that the cap remained unchanged from last year from what I'm seeing, then the maximum salary should be the same I'd say, so: $12,922,194.

I'll have to await the details, and see how the annual raises factor into it.

[Brendan]

He's definitely NOT worth a max deal, but what are you gonna do.

[celtsfan84]

Ugh.  Well, I guess the Nets will never have cap space and the Russian billionaire can afford to overpay.

That's about $10 million a year too much for my liking, but then again Prokhorov made $10 million while I was typing this post.

So you think Lopez is about a 3 million a year player?

No, I don't.  Why do you ask?

Well, the starting amount of the contract is MAX $12,922,194, so we'll have to see what the details of this agreement is.

But for the time being, he'd be making that amount next season.

No, the maximum for a player of his experience is 25% of the cap. Which is 14.5 million this season.  And he is eligible for 7.5% annual raises.  Which gets him in the 18 million range by the end of the deal.

It's not exactly 25% of the cap, it ends up being lower. And considering that the cap remained unchanged from last year from what I'm seeing, then the maximum salary should be the same I'd say, so: $12,922,194.

I'll have to await the details, and see how the annual raises factor into it.

Woj says it is 5 for 78.  And you should also be aware that the first year of the contract is almost always smaller than all future years. It will be bigger in Year 2, 3, 4, and potentially 5.

Regardless, it matters little. The Nets will not be under the cap for a long time anyway.

[JSD]

Lopez puts up numbers, when healthy, that make the case for someone to argue he is a top 5 center in the league. And if he has a contract that starts off around $13 million, then I would say that's about right. Max smax.