America's Invasion of Euro Hardwood May Not Be Over; Another NBAer Considers the Move

Fricken Traitors.

I figured this, the Rockets were just too free with the ole’ Carl can shop but he is a restricted free agent so we will match whatever he gets. That comment by Morey has made his agent say, well your not the only game in town and here you have the new delima. Players are a business and the want as much as they can get. If the NBA is going to hold down salaries, the Euro teams are going to step up.

This sounds more like a negotiating tactic than anything else…a bluff.

Players in Europe (for the most part) are knocking down doors to play in the NBA.
The option of playing in Europe only makes sense for someone who is still relatively young, can afford to play in Europe of 3 or so years before returning to the NBA, and can’t quite become a starter who has the chance to make the equivalent of an NBA starting salary at at least the mid level exception…or perhaps for someone who wants to get away from an NBA team that holds his rights, but can’t.

Those factors may have been at play in the Josh Childress case. There will be no big market in Europe for NBA players. Europeans want to see teams that are composed of mostly European players…not Americans. This is a realistic option only for a few ideally situated NBA players who are not NBA superstars.

Landry’s agent has been a real jerk through the negotiating process. The bottom line is the Rockets will not sign Landry unless he gets his knee examined. Landry’s agent is refusing and he’s claiming that the Rockets are purposely putting out information that Landry’s knee is bad.

I think there is more to Landry’s knee than they are leading on. At the end of last season, he could barely dunk the ball. I think Landry’s agent is throwing Europe out there because there isn’t an NBA team that would sign him without extensive knee examinations.

Has anybody stopped to think that perhaps the NBA better start taking the Euros seriously? At some point in time, the agents will stop using this as leverage and start signing their players to contracts.

The NBA is atrocious and is being uniersally questioned. The Euros know it, so now they are starting to approach American players with more money to come and play there. The players now know that they have an alternative, and in the tradition of greed, players will start taking this alternative seriously.

I can’t say that I’ve watched Euro games, but I’d be willing to bet that there are a lot less problems than the NBA currently exhibits. I’ll bet the players are watching too!

Stern had better fix the NBA now or alternatives will start to become major problems down the line!