Hornets Ink Davis and Rivers to Multi-year

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you mean their rookie contracts?

Call it what you want :)

Nice deal

wonder what the $$$ is

hope we signed davis to a 10 year deal

3 years.

http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_default

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Originally Posted by Smirk

3 years.

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3 years??? what. no 4th with an option????

3 years worries me.... We've got 3 years to convince A.D. to stay with us? Make it happen Demps!

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Originally Posted by WhoDatHornet

3 years worries me.... We've got 3 years to convince A.D. to stay with us? Make it happen Demps!

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calm down ppl...all rookie contracts are pre-determined...there will be team options as there always is

and then after, these guys will be restricted free agents..again, calm down ppl

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Originally Posted by CP4MVP

calm down ppl...all rookie contracts are pre-determined...there will be team options as there always is

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"I'm perfectly calm dude". It just seems we have a running theme of players trying to leave here as soon as possible so i don't have the brightest outlook when it comes to us keeping guys. I hope that we can change that.

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Originally Posted by CP4MVP

and then after, these guys will be restricted free agents..again, calm down ppl

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Well at least we got that going for us. Thanks for the info.

It's 3 years guaranteed. After the first 3 years, there are 2 "team option years," which equals a total of 5 years.

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Originally Posted by nolaslim213

It's 3 years guaranteed. After the first 3 years, there are 2 "team option years," which equals a total of 5 years.

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i think it is 4...remember gordon became a restricted free agent after 4 yrs in the league

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Originally Posted by CP4MVP

i think it is 4...remember gordon became a restricted free agent after 4 yrs in the league

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Could go either way, I'll have to look it up. The CBA has changed since Gordon's rookie deal, I know that for sure.

Some new stuff on rookie deals.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...d-rookie-ever/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/darrenhe...ie-in-the-nba/

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When National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern announces University of Kentucky’s Anthony Davis as the first overall pick of the 2012 NBA Draft, Davis will become the first player selected by an NBA team to play in a full-length season since the new 10-year collective bargaining agreement was ratified by the NBA Board of Governors in December 2011.

Davis will enter a changed league that splits basketball-related income in half with its players, caps the maximum length of a player’s contract to five years, and may some day begin blood testing for human growth hormone (HGH). The new collective bargaining agreement also stipulates that Davis will not get an increase in salary compared to last year’s number one overall pick, Kyrie Irving or the prior year’s first pick, John Wall.

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The New Orleans Hornets will sign Davis to a two year contract that can be extended to a three or four year deal should the team wish to pick up their options in either year.

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Looking at the other rookie contracts it looks like it will be 2 years guaranteed, 2 years of team option, then restricted free agency

I thought the 1st overall pick gets a 5th year.... Probably wrong, but that's what I was basing it off of.

Austin Rivers ‏@AustinRivers25
Thanking God for this day, officially a Hornet! Let's get it New Orleans

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Originally Posted by nolaslim213

I thought the 1st overall pick gets a 5th year.... Probably wrong, but that's what I was basing it off of.

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nope...but teams can offer only one player a 5 yr extension instead of a 4 yr extension after a player's rookie contract is up...that is why love was so upset...he got a 4 yr deal cuz the wolves are saving their 5 yr guy for rubio...gordon wanted 5 yrs from us but was only going to get 4 cuz we are saving our 5 yr guy for davis

so davis will be one the team for 4 yrs after team options and then in all likelihood sign a 5 yr extension with us

CP4LAC has this all correct in my mind.

Also, this knocks off a little more than $1.2m of the cap room if they both got 120% scale deals.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kEucul5EYx4/0.jpg

Lol

Friggin hilarious!!

i can see it now, foam uni-brows being sold at the hive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEucul5EYx4