So this may be the most ridiculous contract of the summer. The Cavs have agreed to terms with Big Bird/Side Show Bob/Carrot Top on a 6 year deal for $42-50 Million. For those of you that are in disbelief I will quote from Cleveland.com ..."Varejao, the team's versatile big man who became a starter last season, is set to get a six-year contract that could be worth as much as $50 million."
Okay now, lets try to make some sense of this. He had his best year ever and averaged 8.6 points and 7.2 rebounds, respectable but he's basically an energy player and has no real offensive game at all. Maybe he had a video of someone dunking on Lebron and LBJ forced the Cavs to pay to keep it secret or something. Because with so few teams with any cap space and no reported interest in Carrot Top I see no reason why they would give him this huge contract. He has shown no signs that he'll develop into a 15 and 10 type power forward.
Vaejao's agent shrewdly claimed that there were teams going after his client both in free agency and sign and trade deals that were willing to pay Side Show Bob $10 Million per year (claiming he took the "hometown discount"). At the Sporting Nerd we are far too smart to believe such garbage..... too bad for Clevelanders that the Cavs and Danny Ferry are not...
Some interesting comments at Cleveland.com:
http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/07/anderson_varejao_agrees_to_6ye.html#comments
LoL Cleveland. LoL.
ReplyDeleteBAM! I love this town.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this doesn't seem right. I don't think that Wild Thing's performance in place of Big Ben this past season led us Clevelanders to see some untapped well of talent in Andy. He's an energetic defensive player, and as I see it, that's what he has always been. I think it was just seeing 20 more minutes of it a night that makes Danny Ferry think he's so valuable. But I ask myself this--is it a lock that Side Show, even if he stays healthy, continues as a starter throughout the 09-10 campaign? I wouldn't bet on it.
ReplyDeleteI guess that whole retarded sitting out the start of the season debacle last year paid off for him... just unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to think that the Cavs would not have made this deal if not for the constant pressure Lebron's exerting on the team (I'd like to think if everyone and their mom knows this was a bad deal, then someone in the Cavs front office did too). If Lebron ends up going elsewhere, the Cavs are going to be crippled by all these desperate moves in their attempt to "win now"
It's quite hilarious reading those comments. The Cavs fans are like disillusioned Sarah Palin supporters -- they either bemoan the reality that things are really headed to the shitter, or they feverishly/irrationally defend the bad decisions of management. Either course is filled with sadness and pathos.
ReplyDeleteI mean, if LBJ really did push management to sign "Andy," my respect for him as a human being (his ricockulous basketball skills, aka super-human qualities aside) is declining rapidly.