I'm going to stick with my guns on this one... I don't think he's a max player and I don't want us to offer him the max. (im sure some team will offer him the max or close- I just dont want it to be us)
I would much rather give JJ Hickson (who is 3 years younger) 7 or 8 Million a year than Nikola $15M. JJ is producing equally impressive stats and shares the court with LMA. (we actually were interested in JJ this summer but, he choose to resign with PDX)
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/...in-former.html
J.J. Hickson
Portland
Position: Center-Forward
Height: 6-9 Weight: 242
Prior to NBA / Country:
North Carolina State / USA
Player file | Team stats
2012-13 Statistics PPG13.0 RPG10.8 APG1.1 SPG0.5 BPG0.8 FG%0.558 FT%0.682 3P%0.000 MPG29.6
Nikola Pekovic
Minnesota
Position: Center
Height: 6-11 Weight: 290
Prior to NBA / Country:
Panathinaikos / Montenegro
Player file | Team stats
2012-13 Statistics PPG15.9 RPG8.6 APG0.9 SPG0.6 BPG0.9 FG%0.510 FT%0.733 3P%0.000 MPG31.2
I wouldn't be oppossed to giving him big dollars for 3 seasons but, the 4th & 5th year of ~$15M per scares me.
For what it's worth, I was reading today that Minnesota doesn't want to pay him more than $11M per.
as a side note... Our lack of cap space has hurt us twice now as we could have claimed Hickson and we could have participated in the Tor/Mem/Clev trade and got Marresse Speights for nothing...
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